[FIXED] Tensorflow Tensor reshape and pad with zeros

Issue

Is there a way to reshape a tensor and pad any overflow with zeros? I know ndarray.reshape does this, but as I understand it, converting a Tensor to an ndarray would require flip-flopping between the GPU and CPU.

Tensorflow's reshape() documentation says the TensorShapes need to have the same number of elements, so perhaps the best way would be a pad() and then reshape()?

I'm trying to achieve:

a = tf.Tensor([[1,2],[3,4]])
tf.reshape(a, [2,3])
a => [[1, 2, 3],
      [4, 0 ,0]]

Solution

Tensorflow now offers the pad function which performs padding on a tensor in a number of ways(like opencv2's padding function for arrays): https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/pad

tf.pad(tensor, paddings, mode='CONSTANT', name=None)

example from the docs above:

# 't' is [[1, 2, 3],
#         [4, 5, 6]]
# 'paddings' is [[1, 1], [2, 2]]
# rank of 't' is 2.
pad(t, paddings, "CONSTANT") ==> [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
                                  [0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 0],
                                  [0, 0, 4, 5, 6, 0, 0],
                                  [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]

pad(t, paddings, "REFLECT") ==> [[6, 5, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4],
                                 [3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1],
                                 [6, 5, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4],
                                 [3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1]]

pad(t, paddings, "SYMMETRIC") ==> [[2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2],
                                   [2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2],
                                   [5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 5],
                                   [5, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 5]]

Answered By - DMTishler