layer_conv_2d_transpose: 2D transposed convolution layer.

In keras3: R Interface to 'Keras'

2D transposed convolution layer.

Description

The need for transposed convolutions generally arise from the desire to use a transformation going in the opposite direction of a normal convolution, i.e., from something that has the shape of the output of some convolution to something that has the shape of its input while maintaining a connectivity pattern that is compatible with said convolution.

Usage

layer_conv_2d_transpose(
  object,
  filters,
  kernel_size,
  strides = list(1L, 1L),
  padding = "valid",
  output_padding = NULL,
  data_format = NULL,
  dilation_rate = list(1L, 1L),
  activation = NULL,
  use_bias = TRUE,
  kernel_initializer = "glorot_uniform",
  bias_initializer = "zeros",
  kernel_regularizer = NULL,
  bias_regularizer = NULL,
  activity_regularizer = NULL,
  kernel_constraint = NULL,
  bias_constraint = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object	Object to compose the layer with. A tensor, array, or sequential model.
filters	int, the dimension of the output space (the number of filters in the transposed convolution).
kernel_size	int or list of 1 integer, specifying the size of the transposed convolution window.
strides	int or list of 1 integer, specifying the stride length of the transposed convolution. strides > 1 is incompatible with dilation_rate > 1.
padding	string, either "valid" or "same" (case-insensitive). "valid" means no padding. "same" results in padding evenly to the left/right or up/down of the input. When padding="same" and strides=1, the output has the same size as the input.
output_padding	Scalar integer or vector of two integers. Amount of padding to add to the height and width of the output tensor. Each element must be smaller than the corresponding stride. When NULL (default) the output size is inferred.
data_format	string, either "channels_last" or "channels_first". The ordering of the dimensions in the inputs. "channels_last" corresponds to inputs with shape ⁠(batch_size, height, width, channels)⁠ while "channels_first" corresponds to inputs with shape ⁠(batch_size, channels, height, width)⁠. It defaults to the image_data_format value found in your Keras config file at ⁠~/.keras/keras.json⁠. If you never set it, then it will be "channels_last".
dilation_rate	Scalar integer or vector of 2 integers specifying the dilation rate. Values other than 1 require strides = 1; different rates per dimension are not supported.
activation	Activation function. If NULL, no activation is applied.
use_bias	bool, if TRUE, bias will be added to the output.
kernel_initializer	Initializer for the convolution kernel. If NULL, the default initializer ("glorot_uniform") will be used.
bias_initializer	Initializer for the bias vector. If NULL, the default initializer ("zeros") will be used.
kernel_regularizer	Optional regularizer for the convolution kernel.
bias_regularizer	Optional regularizer for the bias vector.
activity_regularizer	Optional regularizer function for the output.
kernel_constraint	Optional projection function to be applied to the kernel after being updated by an Optimizer (e.g. used to implement norm constraints or value constraints for layer weights). The function must take as input the unprojected variable and must return the projected variable (which must have the same shape). Constraints are not safe to use when doing asynchronous distributed training.
bias_constraint	Optional projection function to be applied to the bias after being updated by an Optimizer.
...	For forward/backward compatability.

Value

A 4D tensor representing activation(conv2d_transpose(inputs, kernel) + bias).

Input Shape

• If data_format="channels_last": A 4D tensor with shape: ⁠(batch_size, height, width, channels)⁠

• If data_format="channels_first": A 4D tensor with shape: ⁠(batch_size, channels, height, width)⁠

Output Shape

• If data_format="channels_last": A 4D tensor with shape: ⁠(batch_size, new_height, new_width, filters)⁠

• If data_format="channels_first": A 4D tensor with shape: ⁠(batch_size, filters, new_height, new_width)⁠

Raises

ValueError: when both strides > 1 and dilation_rate > 1.

References

• A guide to convolution arithmetic for deep learning

• Deconvolutional Networks

Example

x <- random_uniform(c(4, 10, 8, 128))
y <- x |> layer_conv_2d_transpose(32, 2, 2, activation='relu')
shape(y)

## shape(4, 20, 16, 32)

# (4, 20, 16, 32)

See Also

• https://keras.io/api/layers/convolution_layers/convolution2d_transpose#conv2dtranspose-class

Other convolutional layers:
layer_conv_1d()
layer_conv_1d_transpose()
layer_conv_2d()
layer_conv_3d()
layer_conv_3d_transpose()
layer_depthwise_conv_1d()
layer_depthwise_conv_2d()
layer_separable_conv_1d()
layer_separable_conv_2d()

Other layers:
Layer()
layer_activation()
layer_activation_elu()
layer_activation_leaky_relu()
layer_activation_parametric_relu()
layer_activation_relu()
layer_activation_softmax()
layer_activity_regularization()
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layer_bidirectional()
layer_category_encoding()
layer_center_crop()
layer_concatenate()
layer_conv_1d()
layer_conv_1d_transpose()
layer_conv_2d()
layer_conv_3d()
layer_conv_3d_transpose()
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