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I was wondering if it was okay to use torch.cat within my forward function. I am doing so because I want the first two columns of my input to skip the middle hidden layers and go directly to the final layer.

Here is my code: you can see that I use torch.cat at the last moment to make xcat.

Does the gradient propagate back? or does the torch.cat cover up what happened to my hidden variables?

class LinearRegressionForce(nn.Module):

    def __init__(self, focus_input_size, rest_input_size, hidden_size_1, hidden_size_2, output_size):
        super(LinearRegressionForce, self).__init__()

        self.in1 = nn.Linear(rest_input_size, hidden_size_1) 
        self.middle1 = nn.Linear(hidden_size_1,hidden_size_2)
        self.out4 = nn.Linear(focus_input_size + hidden_size_2,output_size)

    def forward(self, inputs):
        focus_inputs = inputs[:,0:focus_input_size]
        rest_inputs = inputs[:,focus_input_size:(rest_input_size+focus_input_size)]
        x = self.in1(rest_inputs).clamp(min=0)
        x = self.middle1(x).clamp(min=0)
        xcat = torch.cat((focus_inputs,x),1)
        out = self.out4(xcat).clamp(min=0)
        return out

I call it like so:

rest_inputs = Variable(torch.from_numpy(rest_x_train))
focus_x_train_ones = np.concatenate((focus_x_train, np.ones((n,1))), axis=1)
focus_inputs =  Variable(torch.from_numpy(focus_x_train_ones)).float()
inputs = torch.cat((focus_inputs,rest_inputs),1)

predicted = model(inputs).data.numpy()
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Yes, torch.cat works with backward operation.

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