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<h1 id="module-api">Module API</h1>
<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
<p>The module API, defined in the <code>module</code> (or simply <code>mod</code>) package (<code>AI::MXNet::Module</code> under the hood), provides an
intermediate and high-level interface for performing computation with a
<code>AI::MXNet::Symbol</code> or just <code>mx-&gt;sym</code>. One can roughly think a module is a machine which can execute a
program defined by a <code>Symbol</code>.</p>
<p>The class <code>AI::MXNet::Module</code> is a commonly used module, which accepts a <code>AI::MXNet::Symbol</code> as
the input:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-perl" data-lang="perl"><span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$data</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">mx</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">symbol</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">Variable</span><span class="p">('</span><span class="s1">data</span><span class="p">')</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$fc1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">mx</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">symbol</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">FullyConnected</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">name</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="p">'</span><span class="s1">fc1</span><span class="p">',</span> <span class="nv">num_hidden</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="mi">128</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$act1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">mx</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">symbol</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">Activation</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$fc1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">name</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="p">'</span><span class="s1">relu1</span><span class="p">',</span> <span class="nv">act_type</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="p">"</span><span class="s2">relu</span><span class="p">")</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$fc2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">mx</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">symbol</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">FullyConnected</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$act1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">name</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="p">'</span><span class="s1">fc2</span><span class="p">',</span> <span class="nv">num_hidden</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$out</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">mx</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">symbol</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">SoftmaxOutput</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$fc2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">name</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="p">'</span><span class="s1">softmax</span><span class="p">')</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$mod</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nv">mx</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">mod</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">Module</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$out</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># create a module by given a Symbol</span>
</code></pre></div>
<p>Assume there is a valid MXNet data iterator <code>data</code>. We can initialize the
module:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-perl" data-lang="perl"><span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$mod</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nb">bind</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">data_shapes</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="nv">$data</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">provide_data</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="nv">label_shapes</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="nv">$data</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">provide_label</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># create memory by given input shapes</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$mod</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">init_params</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="c1"># initial parameters with the default random initializer</span>
</code></pre></div>
<p>Now the module is able to compute. We can call high-level API to train and
predict:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-perl" data-lang="perl"><span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$mod</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$data</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">num_epoch</span><span class="o">=&gt;</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">...</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># train</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$mod</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">predict</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$new_data</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># predict on new data</span>
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<p>or use intermediate APIs to perform step-by-step computations</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-perl" data-lang="perl"><span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$mod</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">forward</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$data_batch</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nv">is_train</span> <span class="o">=&gt;</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># forward on the provided data batch</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$mod</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">backward</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="c1"># backward to calculate the gradients</span>
<span class="nv">pdl</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nv">$mod</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nv">update</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="c1"># update parameters using the default optimizer</span>
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