nvidia.dali.fn.cat

nvidia.dali.fn.cat(*inputs, **kwargs)

Joins the input tensors along an existing axis.

The shapes of the inputs must match in all dimensions except the concatenation axis.

Supported backends
  • ‘cpu’

  • ‘gpu’

Parameters:
  • input0 (TensorList) – Input to the operator.

  • input[1..998] (TensorList, optional) – This function accepts up to 998 optional positional inputs

Keyword Arguments:
  • axis (int, optional, default = 0) –

    Axis along which the input tensors are concatenated.

    Accepted range is [-ndim, ndim-1]. Negative indices are counted from the back.

  • axis_name (str, optional) –

    Name of the axis along which the tensors are concatenated.

    This argument is mutually exclusive with axis. This argument requires that at least one input has a non-empty layout and that all non-empty input layouts match.

  • bytes_per_sample_hint (int or list of int, optional, default = [0]) –

    Output size hint, in bytes per sample.

    If specified, the operator’s outputs residing in GPU or page-locked host memory will be preallocated to accommodate a batch of samples of this size.

  • preserve (bool, optional, default = False) – Prevents the operator from being removed from the graph even if its outputs are not used.

  • seed (int, optional, default = -1) –

    Random seed.

    If not provided, it will be populated based on the global seed of the pipeline.