mxnet.symbol.Symbol.list_auxiliary_states¶

Symbol.list_auxiliary_states()[source]¶

Lists all the auxiliary states in the symbol.

Example

>>> a = mx.sym.var('a')
>>> b = mx.sym.var('b')
>>> c = a + b
>>> c.list_auxiliary_states()
[]

Example of auxiliary states in BatchNorm.

>>> data = mx.symbol.Variable('data')
>>> weight = mx.sym.Variable(name='fc1_weight')
>>> fc1  = mx.symbol.FullyConnected(data = data, weight=weight, name='fc1', num_hidden=128)
>>> fc2 = mx.symbol.BatchNorm(fc1, name='batchnorm0')
>>> fc2.list_auxiliary_states()
['batchnorm0_moving_mean', 'batchnorm0_moving_var']

Returns: aux_states – List of the auxiliary states in input symbol.
Return type: list of str

Notes

Auxiliary states are special states of symbols that do not correspond to an argument, and are not updated by gradient descent. Common examples of auxiliary states include the moving_mean and moving_variance in BatchNorm. Most operators do not have auxiliary states.