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logcategorical

LogCategorical

Bases: Distribution

A Geometric distribution.

Source code in hfppl/distributions/logcategorical.py
class LogCategorical(Distribution):
    """A Geometric distribution."""

    def __init__(self, logits):
        """Create a Categorical distribution from unnormalized log probabilities (logits).
        Given an array of logits, takes their `softmax` and samples an integer in `range(len(logits))`
        from the resulting categorical.

        Args:
            logits (np.array): a numpy array of unnormalized log probabilities.
        """
        self.log_probs = log_softmax(logits)

    async def sample(self):
        n = np.random.choice(len(self.log_probs), p=np.exp(self.log_probs))
        return n, await self.log_prob(n)

    async def log_prob(self, value):
        return self.log_probs[value]

    async def argmax(self, idx):
        return np.argsort(self.log_probs)[-idx]

__init__(logits)

Create a Categorical distribution from unnormalized log probabilities (logits). Given an array of logits, takes their softmax and samples an integer in range(len(logits)) from the resulting categorical.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
logits array

a numpy array of unnormalized log probabilities.

required
Source code in hfppl/distributions/logcategorical.py
def __init__(self, logits):
    """Create a Categorical distribution from unnormalized log probabilities (logits).
    Given an array of logits, takes their `softmax` and samples an integer in `range(len(logits))`
    from the resulting categorical.

    Args:
        logits (np.array): a numpy array of unnormalized log probabilities.
    """
    self.log_probs = log_softmax(logits)