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I need to transpose a 3-dimensional tensor of the shape (batch_size, N, M) to (batch_size, M, N) in a custom loss function in Keras with tensorflow as the backend. I tried using the following function

K.permute_dimensions(y_true,(0,2,1))

It gives me an error that the dimension must be 2 instead, 3 is given.

When I try to input the following

K.permute_dimensions(y_true,(1,0))

it says the dimension is 3, instead, 2 is given.

I also tried using K.transpose but it gives me (M,N,batch_size).

I already implemented the solution with for loop, but in keras custom loss, for loops should be avoided.

from keras import backend as K
def custom_loss(y_true, y_pred):
    beta  = K.permute_dimensions(y_pred, (0,2,1))
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  • $\begingroup$ When you do y_true.shape what values do you get? Also give the values for each batch_size, N, M. $\endgroup$
    – Memristor
    Jun 14 at 15:37
  • $\begingroup$ @Memristor For y_true.shape I got (batch_size, N, M). $\endgroup$
    – Doc Jazzy
    Jun 14 at 15:44

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Use tf.transpose instead:

tf.transpose(y_true, perm=(0, 2, 1))

Otherwise use tf.keras instead of simply keras, as follows:

from tensorflow.keras import backend as K

def custom_loss(y_true, y_pred):
    beta = K.permute_dimensions(y_pred, (0, 2, 1))
    # ...
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  • $\begingroup$ both approaches didn't work out for me. Did you try it, if yes, please mention the TF and Keras version. $\endgroup$
    – Doc Jazzy
    Jun 14 at 18:15
  • $\begingroup$ @DocJazzy Yes I tried both on TF and Keras v2.8.0. What happens if you reshape the tensor? For example x = tf.reshape(x, shape=(M, N, batch_size)). $\endgroup$ Jun 15 at 10:19
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you for your reply! It was a problem with the keras version, I installed the latest version, and it works without any problem. $\endgroup$
    – Doc Jazzy
    Jun 16 at 15:54

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