The original design for the dtype functions outlined in
https://github.com/llvm/torch-mlir/issues/1462 was unable to properly
handle ops that take optional tensors as an input when the optional
tensor has a value of None. By the time the op gets imported into
torch-mlir, if an optional value is None, all information about the
original type is lost from the op type signature, preventing
torch-mlir from knowing if a value of None was from an optional tensor
or not, which was crucial in the original design since each tensor
argument must be turned into two separate arguments for the dtype
function.
This commit changes the interface to dtype functions such that each
tensor turns into a tuple of two ints, the first representing the rank
of the tensor and the second the dtype of the tensor. Since now there
is a one-to-one correspondence between the operands of an op and the
operands of its dtype function, there is no ambiguity about which
operand of the op corresponds with which operand of the dtype
function.
To test the implementation, this commit defines dtype function for
convolution op, which takes one optional tensor as an argument.
* [custom op] Generalize shape library logic to work with dtypes
This commit generalizes the shape library logic, so that dtype rules
for ops can also be expressed using the same mechanism. In other
words, each op can now have a shape function and a dtype function
specified in Python that is imported during lowering to calculate the
shapes and dtypes throught a program. For more information about how
to specify a dtype function, see the updated
`docs/adding_a_shape_and_dtype_function.md`.
For those not familiar with how the shape library works, the file
`docs/calculations_lib.md` provides an overview.
Aart Bik
Ramiro Leal-Cavazos