[FIXED] Using positional encoding in pytorch

Issue

Is there any built-in positional encoding in pytorch? Basically, I want to be able to specify the dimension of the encoding, and then be able to get the i'th encoding for every i.

Solution

There isn't, as far as I'm aware.

However, you can use an implementation from PyTorch's documentation:

class PositionalEncoding(nn.Module):

    def __init__(self, d_model: int, dropout: float = 0.1, max_len: int = 5000):
        super().__init__()
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(p=dropout)

        position = torch.arange(max_len).unsqueeze(1)
        div_term = torch.exp(torch.arange(0, d_model, 2) * (-math.log(10000.0) / d_model))
        pe = torch.zeros(max_len, 1, d_model)
        pe[:, 0, 0::2] = torch.sin(position * div_term)
        pe[:, 0, 1::2] = torch.cos(position * div_term)
        self.register_buffer('pe', pe)

    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
        """
        Arguments:
            x: Tensor, shape ``[seq_len, batch_size, embedding_dim]``
        """
        x = x + self.pe[:x.size(0)]
        return self.dropout(x)

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Answered By - Yakov Dan