torch.Tensor.view

Tensor.view(*shape) → Tensor

Returns a new tensor with the same data as the self tensor but of a different shape.

The returned tensor shares the same data and must have the same number of elements, but may have a different size. For a tensor to be viewed, the new view size must be compatible with its original size and stride, i.e., each new view dimension must either be a subspace of an original dimension, or only span across original dimensions $d, d+1, \dots, d+k$ that satisfy the following contiguity-like condition that $\forall i = d, \dots, d+k-1$,

$$\text{stride}[i] = \text{stride}[i+1] \times \text{size}[i+1]$$

Otherwise, it will not be possible to view self tensor as shape without copying it (e.g., via contiguous()). When it is unclear whether a view() can be performed, it is advisable to use reshape(), which returns a view if the shapes are compatible, and copies (equivalent to calling contiguous()) otherwise.

Parameters

shape (torch.Size or int...) – the desired size

Example:

>>> x = torch.randn(4, 4)
>>> x.size()
torch.Size([4, 4])
>>> y = x.view(16)
>>> y.size()
torch.Size([16])
>>> z = x.view(-1, 8)  # the size -1 is inferred from other dimensions
>>> z.size()
torch.Size([2, 8])

>>> a = torch.randn(1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> a.size()
torch.Size([1, 2, 3, 4])
>>> b = a.transpose(1, 2)  # Swaps 2nd and 3rd dimension
>>> b.size()
torch.Size([1, 3, 2, 4])
>>> c = a.view(1, 3, 2, 4)  # Does not change tensor layout in memory
>>> c.size()
torch.Size([1, 3, 2, 4])
>>> torch.equal(b, c)
False

view(dtype) → Tensor

Returns a new tensor with the same data as the self tensor but of a different dtype.

If the element size of dtype is different than that of self.dtype, then the size of the last dimension of the output will be scaled proportionally. For instance, if dtype element size is twice that of self.dtype, then each pair of elements in the last dimension of self will be combined, and the size of the last dimension of the output will be half that of self. If dtype element size is half that of self.dtype, then each element in the last dimension of self will be split in two, and the size of the last dimension of the output will be double that of self. For this to be possible, the following conditions must be true:

• self.dim() must be greater than 0.

• self.stride(-1) must be 1.

Additionally, if the element size of dtype is greater than that of self.dtype, the following conditions must be true as well:

• self.size(-1) must be divisible by the ratio between the element sizes of the dtypes.

• self.storage_offset() must be divisible by the ratio between the element sizes of the dtypes.

• The strides of all dimensions, except the last dimension, must be divisible by the ratio between the element sizes of the dtypes.

If any of the above conditions are not met, an error is thrown.

Warning

This overload is not supported by TorchScript, and using it in a Torchscript program will cause undefined behavior.

Parameters

dtype (torch.dtype) – the desired dtype

Example:

>>> x = torch.randn(4, 4)
>>> x
tensor([[ 0.9482, -0.0310,  1.4999, -0.5316],
        [-0.1520,  0.7472,  0.5617, -0.8649],
        [-2.4724, -0.0334, -0.2976, -0.8499],
        [-0.2109,  1.9913, -0.9607, -0.6123]])
>>> x.dtype
torch.float32

>>> y = x.view(torch.int32)
>>> y
tensor([[ 1064483442, -1124191867,  1069546515, -1089989247],
        [-1105482831,  1061112040,  1057999968, -1084397505],
        [-1071760287, -1123489973, -1097310419, -1084649136],
        [-1101533110,  1073668768, -1082790149, -1088634448]],
    dtype=torch.int32)
>>> y[0, 0] = 1000000000
>>> x
tensor([[ 0.0047, -0.0310,  1.4999, -0.5316],
        [-0.1520,  0.7472,  0.5617, -0.8649],
        [-2.4724, -0.0334, -0.2976, -0.8499],
        [-0.2109,  1.9913, -0.9607, -0.6123]])

>>> x.view(torch.cfloat)
tensor([[ 0.0047-0.0310j,  1.4999-0.5316j],
        [-0.1520+0.7472j,  0.5617-0.8649j],
        [-2.4724-0.0334j, -0.2976-0.8499j],
        [-0.2109+1.9913j, -0.9607-0.6123j]])
>>> x.view(torch.cfloat).size()
torch.Size([4, 2])

>>> x.view(torch.uint8)
tensor([[  0, 202, 154,  59, 182, 243, 253, 188, 185, 252, 191,  63, 240,  22,
           8, 191],
        [227, 165,  27, 190, 128,  72,  63,  63, 146, 203,  15,  63,  22, 106,
          93, 191],
        [205,  59,  30, 192, 112, 206,   8, 189,   7,  95, 152, 190,  12, 147,
          89, 191],
        [ 43, 246,  87, 190, 235, 226, 254,  63, 111, 240, 117, 191, 177, 191,
          28, 191]], dtype=torch.uint8)
>>> x.view(torch.uint8).size()
torch.Size([4, 16])