Summary:
In the C++ API, `Sequential` currently was not refcounted itself, but stored `shared_ptr<AnyModule>` to get the reference semantics. This is unfortunate because most modules in the API are accessed via `->`, e.g. `Linear l(1, 2); l->forward(...);`. `Sequential` was different in that it had value semantics itself, thus was accessed via `.`.
This PR makes `Sequential` store `AnyModule` (without extra indirection), and uses the same pImpl mechanism we use for all other modules to make `Sequential` have reference semantics itself. This makes it consistent with the rest of the library. It also removes one level of indirection inside of `Sequential`, which is cool.
One thing I had to change was that the `ModuleHolder` with which the whole pImpl thing is implemented previously did some tricks to make `Linear(3, 4)` actually construct `Linear(LinearOptions(3, 4))`. This doesn't work well with `Sequential` since it takes a variadic parameter pack. Instead, I made `ModuleHolder` forward all arguments to the underlying module, and then further pushed the trick to forward parameters to modules' options types into the actual Modules. This adds one constructor per Module in the library. This is not something user modules have to do (unless they want this nice forwarding themselves). It makes the code simpler overall.
ezyang ebetica apaszke
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/9151
Reviewed By: ezyang
Differential Revision: D8809298
Pulled By: goldsborough
fbshipit-source-id: da68452c3de912fbc67af330ba93b5220de6909f
* Created TORCH_MODULE macro
Rewrote Linear
Rewrote Dropout and added default constructor to TORCH_MODULE macro
Turned TORCH_MODULE contens into a proper base class
Added some documentation
Got rid of the old Dropout module
Got rid of the old Embedding module
Got rid of the old BatchNorm module
Got rid of the old Conv module
Fixing optimizers
Rebase
Removed old RNN modules and the TORCH_ATTR macro
Removed temporary P:: namespace
Added cloning behavior to all modules
Got rid of some get() calls
self review nits
Remove noexcept from ModuleHolder methods that can throw
Remove spaces
Add missing override to reset() methods
Added examples to documentation in pimpl.h
* Post rebase fixes
