anirudh2290 commented on a change in pull request #10511: add naming tutorial URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/10511#discussion_r180904852
########## File path: docs/tutorials/gluon/naming.md ########## @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@ + +# Naming of Gluon Parameter and Blocks + +In gluon, each Parameter or Block has a name (and prefix). Parameter names are specified by users and Block names can be either specified by users or automatically created. + +In this tutorial we talk about the best practices on naming. First, let's import MXNet and Gluon: + + +```python +from __future__ import print_function +import mxnet as mx +from mxnet import gluon +``` + +## Naming Blocks + +When creating a block, you can assign a prefix to it: + + +```python +mydense = gluon.nn.Dense(100, prefix='mydense_') +print(mydense.prefix) +``` + + mydense_ + + +When no prefix is given, Gluon will automatically generate one: + + +```python +dense0 = gluon.nn.Dense(100) +print(dense0.prefix) +``` + + dense0_ + + +When you create more Blocks of the same kind, they will be named differetly to avoid collision: Review comment: differently ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
