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LLTM Gradients

CUDAPytorchBackpropagation
#include <vector>

std::vector<at::Tensor> lltm_forward(
    torch::Tensor input,
    torch::Tensor weights,
    torch::Tensor bias,
    torch::Tensor old_h,
    torch::Tensor old_cell) {
  auto X = torch::cat({old_h, input}, /*dim=*/1);

  auto gate_weights = torch::addmm(bias, X, weights.transpose(0, 1));
  auto gates = gate_weights.chunk(3, /*dim=*/1);

  auto input_gate = torch::sigmoid(gates[0]);
  auto output_gate = torch::sigmoid(gates[1]);
  auto candidate_cell = torch::elu(gates[2], /*alpha=*/1.0);

  auto new_cell = old_cell + candidate_cell * input_gate;
  auto new_h = torch::tanh(new_cell) * output_gate;

  return {new_h,
          new_cell,
          input_gate,
          output_gate,
          candidate_cell,
          X,
          gate_weights};
}

// tanh'(z) = 1 - tanh^2(z)
torch::Tensor d_tanh(torch::Tensor z) {
  return 1 - z.tanh().pow(2);
}

// elu'(z) = relu'(z) + { alpha * exp(z) if (alpha * (exp(z) - 1)) < 0, else 0}
torch::Tensor d_elu(torch::Tensor z, torch::Scalar alpha = 1.0) {
  auto e = z.exp();
  auto mask = (alpha * (e - 1)) < 0;
  return (z > 0).type_as(z) + mask.type_as(z) * (alpha * e);
}

std::vector<torch::Tensor> lltm_backward(
    torch::Tensor grad_h,
    torch::Tensor grad_cell,
    torch::Tensor new_cell,
    torch::Tensor input_gate,
    torch::Tensor output_gate,
    torch::Tensor candidate_cell,
    torch::Tensor X,
    torch::Tensor gate_weights,
    torch::Tensor weights) {
  auto d_output_gate = torch::tanh(new_cell) * grad_h;
  auto d_tanh_new_cell = output_gate * grad_h;
  auto d_new_cell = d_tanh(new_cell) * d_tanh_new_cell + grad_cell;

  auto d_old_cell = d_new_cell;
  auto d_candidate_cell = input_gate * d_new_cell;
  auto d_input_gate = candidate_cell * d_new_cell;

  auto gates = gate_weights.chunk(3, /*dim=*/1);
  d_input_gate *= d_sigmoid(gates[0]);
  d_output_gate *= d_sigmoid(gates[1]);
  d_candidate_cell *= d_elu(gates[2]);

  auto d_gates =
      torch::cat({d_input_gate, d_output_gate, d_candidate_cell}, /*dim=*/1);

  auto d_weights = d_gates.t().mm(X);
  # d_gates is the gradient computed from the current cell's operations (e.g. sigmoid); multiplying it by the current input gives the gradient of the full weight matrix
  auto d_bias = d_gates.sum(/*dim=*/0, /*keepdim=*/true);

  auto d_X = d_gates.mm(weights);
  # d_X is the gradient of X
  const auto state_size = grad_h.size(1);
  auto d_old_h = d_X.slice(/*dim=*/1, 0, state_size);
  auto d_input = d_X.slice(/*dim=*/1, state_size);

  return {d_old_h, d_input, d_weights, d_bias, d_old_cell};
}

How to compute d_output_gate (the output_gate gradient) and d_new_cell (the new_cell gradient)