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How to pre-pad tensorflow ragged tensor with beginning values

This question is similar to this question:

pad last dimension of tensor

with the exception that I would like to pre-pad this tensor with the beginning values. Given the ragged tensor:

 [[1],
 [4, 2],
 [1, 2, 3]]

I would expect the output to be:

[[1 1 1],
 [4 4 2],
 [1 2 3]]

I would like to be able to apply the solution to a larger ragged tensor.

Solution

  • Just use the properties of a ragged tensor:

    import tensorflow as tf

x = tf.ragged.constant([[1],
                        [4, 2],
                        [1, 2, 3]])

rows_to_pad = tf.abs(x.row_lengths() - tf.reduce_max(x.row_lengths()))

padded_x = tf.concat([tf.RaggedTensor.from_row_lengths(
    values=tf.repeat(tf.gather(x.merge_dims(0, -1), x.row_starts()), rows_to_pad, axis=0),
    row_lengths=rows_to_pad), x], axis=-1).to_tensor()

    [[1 1 1]
 [4 4 2]
 [1 2 3]]

    A different ragged tensor:

    x = tf.ragged.constant([[1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 3],
                        [4, 2],
                        [1, 2, 3], 
                        [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 
                        [1]])

    Pre-padded:

    [[1 4 5 6 7 8 3]
 [4 4 4 4 4 4 2]
 [1 1 1 1 1 2 3]
 [1 1 1 2 3 4 5]
 [1 1 1 1 1 1 1]]