This replaces the torch.Tensor constructors with factories that produce
Variables. Similarly, functions on the torch module (e.g. torch.randn)
now return Variables.
To keep the PR to a reasonable size, I've left most of the unused tensor
code. Subsequent PRs will remove the dead code, clean-up calls to
torch.autograd.Variable, and rename Variable to Tensor everywhere.
There are some breaking changes because Variable and Tensors had
slightly different semantics. There's a list of those changes here:
https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/wiki/Breaking-Changes-from-Variable-and-Tensor-merge
The Tensor and Variable classes are being merged.
autograd.Function.forward is now called on Variables, but with "no-grad"
mode (torch.no_grad()) enabled.
One benefit is that we no longer have to explicitly track shared
storages.
* Replace async with non_blocking for Python 3.7 upgrade
* Remove trailing whitespace
* Give _cuda and _type kwargs and accept async for compatibility
* Rename async to non_blocking in all C++ code
* Add entries for async in python_variable_methods
* Friendlier backward compatibility for cuda and type
This moves the implementation of repeat to _utils so that the autograd
function can call it directly instead of relying on forward being called
on tensors.
This also removes _range, which was previously necessary because we
shadowed the built-in range() function.
As discussed in #1441.
I also added some docs giving clear guidance about how to coalescing
in sparse tensors.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
