printing – Graph Printing and Symbolic Print Statement — PyTensor dev documentation (original) (raw)

Guide#

Printing during execution#

Intermediate values in a computation cannot be printed in the normal python way with the print statement, because PyTensor has no statements. Instead there is the Print Op.

from pytensor import tensor as pt, function, printing x = pt.dvector() hello_world_op = printing.Print('hello world') printed_x = hello_world_op(x) f = function([x], printed_x) r = f([1, 2, 3]) hello world str = [ 1. 2. 3.]

If you print more than one thing in a function like f, they will not necessarily be printed in the order that you think. The order might even depend on which graph rewrites are applied. Strictly speaking, the order of printing is not completely defined by the interface – the only hard rule is that if the input of some print output a is ultimately used as an input to some other print input b (so that b depends on a), then a will print before b.

Printing graphs#

PyTensor provides two functions (pytensor.pp() andpytensor.printing.debugprint()) to print a graph to the terminal before or after compilation. These two functions print expression graphs in different ways:pp() is more compact and math-like, debugprint() is more verbose. PyTensor also provides pytensor.printing.pydotprint() that creates a png image of the function.

  1. The first is pytensor.pp().

from pytensor import pp, grad, from pytensor import tensor as pt x = pt.dscalar('x') y = x ** 2 gy = grad(y, x) pp(gy) # print out the gradient prior to rewriting '((fill((x ** TensorConstant{2}), TensorConstant{1.0}) * TensorConstant{2}) * (x ** (TensorConstant{2} - TensorConstant{1})))' f = function([x], gy) pp(f.maker.fgraph.outputs[0]) '(TensorConstant{2.0} * x)'

The parameter in pt.dscalar(‘x’) in the first line is the name of this variable in the graph. This name is used when printing the graph to make it more readable. If no name is provided the variable x is printed as its type as returned byx.type(). In this example - <TensorType(float64, ())>.

The name parameter can be any string. There are no naming restrictions: in particular, you can have many variables with the same name. As a convention, we generally give variables a string name that is similar to the name of the variable in local scope, but you might want to break this convention to include an object instance, or an iteration number or other kinds of information in the name.

Note

To make graphs legible, pp() hides some Ops that are actually in the graph. For example, automatic DimShuffles are not shown.

  1. The second function to print a graph is pytensor.printing.debugprint()

pytensor.printing.debugprint(f.maker.fgraph.outputs[0])
Elemwise{mul,no_inplace} [id A] '' |TensorConstant{2.0} [id B] |x [id C]

Each line printed represents a Variable in the graph. The line |x [id C] means the variable named x with debugprint identifier [id C] is an input of the Elemwise. If you accidentally have two variables called x in your graph, their different debugprint identifier will be your clue.

The line |TensorConstant{2.0} [id B] means that there is a constant 2.0 with this debugprint identifier.

The line Elemwise{mul,no_inplace} [id A] '' is indented less than the other ones, because it means there is a variable computed by multiplying the other (more indented) ones together.

The | symbol are just there to help read big graph. The group together inputs to a node.

Sometimes, you’ll see a Variable but not the inputs underneath. That can happen when that Variable has already been printed. Where else has it been printed? Look for debugprint identifier using the Find feature of your text editor.

pytensor.printing.debugprint(gy)
Elemwise{mul} [id A] '' |Elemwise{mul} [id B] '' | |Elemwise{second,no_inplace} [id C] '' | | |Elemwise{pow,no_inplace} [id D] '' | | | |x [id E] | | | |TensorConstant{2} [id F] | | |TensorConstant{1.0} [id G] | |TensorConstant{2} [id F] |Elemwise{pow} [id H] '' |x [id E] |Elemwise{sub} [id I] '' |TensorConstant{2} [id F] |InplaceDimShuffle{} [id J] '' |TensorConstant{1} [id K]

pytensor.printing.debugprint(gy, depth=2)
Elemwise{mul} [id A] '' |Elemwise{mul} [id B] '' |Elemwise{pow} [id C] ''

If the depth parameter is provided, it limits the number of levels that are shown.

  1. The function pytensor.printing.pydotprint() will print a compiled pytensor function to a png file.

In the image, Apply nodes (the applications of ops) are shown as ellipses and variables are shown as boxes. The number at the end of each label indicates graph position. Boxes and ovals have their own set of positions, so you can have apply #1 and also a variable #1. The numbers in the boxes (Apply nodes) are actually their position in the run-time execution order of the graph. Green ovals are inputs to the graph and blue ovals are outputs.

If your graph uses shared variables, those shared variables will appear as inputs. Future versions of the pydotprint()may distinguish these implicit inputs from explicit inputs.

If you give updates arguments when creating your function, these are added as extra inputs and outputs to the graph. Future versions of pydotprint() may distinguish these implicit inputs and outputs from explicit inputs and outputs.

Reference#

class pytensor.printing.Print(Op)[source]#

This identity-like Op has the side effect of printing a message followed by its inputs when it runs. Default behaviour is to print the __str__ representation. Optionally, one can pass a list of the input member functions to execute, or attributes to print.

__init__(message="", attrs=("__str__")[source]#

Parameters:

__call__(x)[source]#

Parameters:

x (a Variable) – any symbolic variable

Returns:

symbolic identity(x)

When you use the return-value from this function in an PyTensor function, running the function will print the value that x takes in the graph.

pytensor.printing.debugprint(graph_like, depth=-1, print_type=False, print_shape=False, file=None, id_type='CHAR', stop_on_name=False, done=None, print_storage=False, used_ids=None, print_op_info=False, print_destroy_map=False, print_view_map=False, print_memory_map=False, print_fgraph_inputs=False)[source]#

Print a graph as text.

Each line printed represents a Variable in a graph. The indentation of lines corresponds to its depth in the symbolic graph. The first part of the text identifies whether it is an input or the output of some Apply node. The second part of the text is an identifier of the Variable.

If a Variable is encountered multiple times in the depth-first search, it is only printed recursively the first time. Later, just the Variableidentifier is printed.

If an Apply node has multiple outputs, then a .N suffix will be appended to the Apply node’s identifier, indicating to which output a line corresponds.

Parameters:

Return type:

A string representing the printed graph, if file is a string, else file.

pytensor.pp(*args)[source]#

Just a shortcut to pytensor.printing.pp()

pytensor.printing.pp(*args)[source]#

Print to the terminal a math-like expression.

pytensor.printing.pydotprint(fct, outfile=None, compact=True, format='png', with_ids=False, high_contrast=True, cond_highlight=None, colorCodes=None, max_label_size=70, scan_graphs=False, var_with_name_simple=False, print_output_file=True, return_image=False)[source]#

Print to a file the graph of a compiled pytensor function’s ops. Supports all pydot output formats, including png and svg.

Parameters:

In the graph, ellipses are Apply Nodes (the execution of an op) and boxes are variables. If variables have names they are used as text (if multiple vars have the same name, they will be merged in the graph). Otherwise, if the variable is constant, we print its value and finally we print the type + a unique number to prevent multiple vars from being merged. We print the op of the apply in the Apply box with a number that represents the toposort order of application of those Apply. If an Apply has more than 1 input, we label each edge between an input and the Apply node with the input’s index.

Variable color code::

Default apply node code::

For edges, they are black by default. If a node returns a view of an input, we put the corresponding input edge in blue. If it returns a destroyed input, we put the corresponding edge in red.

Note

Since October 20th, 2014, this print the inner function of all scan separately after the top level debugprint output.