python spatial_dropout.py

Posted 2021-05-09

def spatial_dropout(x, keep_prob, seed=1234):
    # x is a convnet activation with shape BxWxHxF where F is the 
    # number of feature maps for that layer
    # keep_prob is the proportion of feature maps we want to keep

    # get the batch size and number of feature maps
    num_feature_maps = [tf.shape(x)[0], tf.shape(x)[3]]

    # get some uniform noise between keep_prob and 1 + keep_prob
    random_tensor = keep_prob
    random_tensor += tf.random_uniform(num_feature_maps,
                                       seed=seed,
                                       dtype=x.dtype)

    # if we take the floor of this, we get a binary matrix where
    # (1-keep_prob)% of the values are 0 and the rest are 1
    binary_tensor = tf.floor(random_tensor)

    # Reshape to multiply our feature maps by this tensor correctly
    binary_tensor = tf.reshape(binary_tensor, 
                               [-1, 1, 1, tf.shape(x)[3]])
    # Zero out feature maps where appropriate; scale up to compensate
    ret = tf.div(x, keep_prob) * binary_tensor
    return ret