GroupNorm

class torch.nn.GroupNorm(num_groups, num_channels, eps=1e-05, affine=True, device=None, dtype=None)

Applies Group Normalization over a mini-batch of inputs.

This layer implements the operation as described in the paper Group Normalization

$$y = \frac{x - \mathrm{E}[x]}{ \sqrt{\mathrm{Var}[x] + \epsilon}} * \gamma + \beta$$

The input channels are separated into num_groups groups, each containing num_channels / num_groups channels. num_channels must be divisible by num_groups. The mean and standard-deviation are calculated separately over the each group. $\gamma$ and $\beta$ are learnable per-channel affine transform parameter vectors of size num_channels if affine is True. The variance is calculated via the biased estimator, equivalent to torch.var(input, unbiased=False).

This layer uses statistics computed from input data in both training and evaluation modes.

Parameters

• num_groups (int) – number of groups to separate the channels into

• num_channels (int) – number of channels expected in input

• eps (float) – a value added to the denominator for numerical stability. Default: 1e-5

• affine (bool) – a boolean value that when set to True, this module has learnable per-channel affine parameters initialized to ones (for weights) and zeros (for biases). Default: True.

Shape:

• Input: $(N, C, *)$ where $C=\text{num\_channels}$

• Output: $(N, C, *)$ (same shape as input)

Examples:

>>> input = torch.randn(20, 6, 10, 10)
>>> # Separate 6 channels into 3 groups
>>> m = nn.GroupNorm(3, 6)
>>> # Separate 6 channels into 6 groups (equivalent with InstanceNorm)
>>> m = nn.GroupNorm(6, 6)
>>> # Put all 6 channels into a single group (equivalent with LayerNorm)
>>> m = nn.GroupNorm(1, 6)
>>> # Activating the module
>>> output = m(input)