tf.constant_initializer

class tf.constant_initializer

See the guide: Variables > Sharing Variables

Initializer that generates tensors with constant values.

The resulting tensor is populated with values of type dtype, as specified by arguments value following the desired shape of the new tensor (see examples below).

The argument value can be a constant value, or a list of values of type dtype. If value is a list, then the length of the list must be less than or equal to the number of elements implied by the desired shape of the tensor. In the case where the total number of elements in value is less than the number of elements required by the tensor shape, the last element in value will be used to fill the remaining entries. If the total number of elements in value is greater than the number of elements required by the tensor shape, the initializer will raise a ValueError.

Args:

• value: A Python scalar, list of values, or a N-dimensional numpy array. All elements of the initialized variable will be set to the corresponding value in the value argument.
• dtype: The data type.

Examples:

The following example can be rewritten using a numpy.ndarray instead of the value list, even reshaped, as shown in the two commented lines below the value list initialization.

  >>> import numpy as np
  >>> import tensorflow as tf

  >>> value = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  >>> # value = np.array(value)
  >>> # value = value.reshape([2, 4])
  >>> init = tf.constant_initializer(value)

  >>> print('fitting shape:')
  >>> tf.reset_default_graph()
  >>> with tf.Session():
  >>>   x = tf.get_variable('x', shape=[2, 4], initializer=init)
  >>>   x.initializer.run()
  >>>   print(x.eval())

  fitting shape:
  [[ 0.  1.  2.  3.]
   [ 4.  5.  6.  7.]]

  >>> print('larger shape:')
  >>> tf.reset_default_graph()
  >>> with tf.Session():
  >>>   x = tf.get_variable('x', shape=[3, 4], initializer=init)
  >>>   x.initializer.run()
  >>>   print(x.eval())

  larger shape:
  [[ 0.  1.  2.  3.]
   [ 4.  5.  6.  7.]
   [ 7.  7.  7.  7.]]

  >>> print('smaller shape:')
  >>> tf.reset_default_graph()
  >>> with tf.Session():
  >>>   x = tf.get_variable('x', shape=[2, 3], initializer=init)

* <b>`ValueError`</b>: Too many elements provided. Needed at most 6, but received 8

Methods

__init__(value=0, dtype=tf.float32)

Defined in tensorflow/python/ops/init_ops.py.