Sorry for the poor title but I'm unsure how better to describe the question.
So I recently watched Andrej Kaparthy's build GPT video which is awesome and now trying to reconstruct the code myself I notices that he uses self() as a function and was curious why and what exactly it does.
The code is here and I'm curious in particular about the generate function:
class BigramLanguageModel(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, vocab_size):
super().__init__()
# each token directly reads off the logits for the next token from a lookup table
self.token_embedding_table = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, vocab_size)
def forward(self, idx, targets=None):
# idx and targets are both (B,T) tensor of integers
logits = self.token_embedding_table(idx) # (B,T,C)
if targets is None:
loss = None
else:
B, T, C = logits.shape
logits = logits.view(B*T, C)
targets = targets.view(B*T)
loss = F.cross_entropy(logits, targets)
return logits, loss
def generate(self, idx, max_new_tokens):
# idx is (B, T) array of indices in the current context
for _ in range(max_new_tokens):
# get the predictions
logits, loss = self(idx)
# focus only on the last time step
logits = logits[:, -1, :] # becomes (B, C)
# apply softmax to get probabilities
probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=-1) # (B, C)
# sample from the distribution
idx_next = torch.multinomial(probs, num_samples=1) # (B, 1)
# append sampled index to the running sequence
idx = torch.cat((idx, idx_next), dim=1) # (B, T+1)
return idx
So to me it seems that he is calling the forward function defined within the class through using the self(). Is that correct? And if so why would he not use forward(idx) instead. Thank you for you help!
