RNN roadmap for refactoring

[Superjomn]

RNN is a big concept to support in our refactoring.
Based on the current support of our framework, it is better to implement RNNs in following stages:

• recurrent_op, an RNN operator that takes a tensor as input
• dynamic_recurrent_op, an RNN that takes variable-length sequences as input, and output sequences as output
  • should replace the recurrent_op
• built-in beam search, that will be a method in dynamic_recurrent_op and make the dynamic_recurrent_op an equivalent of the old RecurrentGradientMachine.
• dynamic RNN based on while_loop and some other conditional operators, after we support this, the infrastructure might apply to some other dynamic models such as Tree-LSTM and so on.
• dynamic beam search, that is a beam search built on while_loop and other conditional operations.

Milestones

• support neural machine translation model
  • dynamic_recurrent_op with a built-in beam search module should be ready at that point.
• a text classification model with dynamic RNNs, the operators not limited to the following ones should be ready
  • pd.while_loop
  • pd.equals
  • pd.TensorArray
  • pd.less_than
• machine translation model based on dynamic beam search (maybe wrapped as generator)
  • that needs more dynamic operators ready

[wangkuiyi]

Should we add a final milestone as beam search using WhileOp and IfElseOp?

[Superjomn]

yes, the dynamic beam search should be the final challenge, I will add it. @wangkuiyi

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