@tensorflow/tfjs-core/src/ops/variable.ts

Hardware-accelerated JavaScript library for machine intelligence

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import {ENGINE} from '../engine';
import {Tensor, Variable} from '../tensor';
import {DataType, Rank} from '../types';

/**
 * Creates a new variable with the provided initial value.
 * ```js
 * const x = tf.variable(tf.tensor([1, 2, 3]));
 * x.assign(tf.tensor([4, 5, 6]));
 *
 * x.print();
 * ```
 *
 * @param initialValue Initial value for the tensor.
 * @param trainable If true, optimizers are allowed to update it.
 * @param name Name of the variable. Defaults to a unique id.
 * @param dtype If set, initialValue will be converted to the given type.
 *
 * @doc {heading: 'Tensors', subheading: 'Creation'}
 */
export function variable<R extends Rank>(
    initialValue: Tensor<R>, trainable = true, name?: string,
    dtype?: DataType): Variable<R> {
  return ENGINE.makeVariable(initialValue, trainable, name, dtype) as
      Variable<R>;
}