Replace unrolled foldl used to evaluate Chain with a better one

src/layers/basic.jl

@@ -27,8 +27,12 @@ julia> m2 = Chain(enc = Chain(Flux.flatten, Dense(10, 5, tanh)),
 julia> m2(x) == (m2[:dec] ∘ m2[:enc])(x)
 true
 ```
+
+For large models, there is a special type-unstable path which can reduce compilation
+times. This can be used by supplying a vector of layers `Chain([layer1, layer2, ...])`.
+This feature is somewhat experimental, beware!
 """
-struct Chain{T<:Union{Tuple, NamedTuple}}
+struct Chain{T<:Union{Tuple, NamedTuple, AbstractVector}}
   layers::T
 end
 
@@ -44,10 +48,22 @@ end
 
 @functor Chain
 
-applychain(::Tuple{}, x) = x
-applychain(fs::Tuple, x) = applychain(tail(fs), first(fs)(x))
+(c::Chain)(x) = applychain(c.layers, x)
+
+@generated function applychain(layers::Tuple{Vararg{<:Any,N}}, x) where {N}
+  symbols = vcat(:x, [gensym() for _ in 1:N])
+  calls = [:($(symbols[i+1]) = layers[$i]($(symbols[i]))) for i in 1:N]
+  Expr(:block, calls...)
+end
+
+applychain(layers::NamedTuple, x) = applychain(Tuple(layers), x)
 
-(c::Chain)(x) = applychain(Tuple(c.layers), x)
+function applychain(layers::AbstractVector, x)  # type-unstable path, helps compile times
+  for f in layers
+    x = f(x)
+  end
+  x
+end
 
 Base.getindex(c::Chain, i::AbstractArray) = Chain(c.layers[i])
 Base.getindex(c::Chain{<:NamedTuple}, i::AbstractArray) =
@@ -60,6 +76,7 @@ function Base.show(io::IO, c::Chain)
 end
 _show_layers(io, layers::Tuple) = join(io, layers, ", ")
 _show_layers(io, layers::NamedTuple) = join(io, ["$k = $v" for (k, v) in pairs(layers)], ", ")
+_show_layers(io, layers::AbstractVector) = (print(io, "["); join(io, layers, ", "); print(io, "]"))
 
 # This is a temporary and naive implementation
 # it might be replaced in the future for better performance

src/layers/show.jl

@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ for T in [
 end
 
 function _big_show(io::IO, obj, indent::Int=0, name=nothing)
+  pre, post = obj isa Chain{<:AbstractVector} ? ("([", "])") : ("(", ")")
   children = _show_children(obj)
   if all(_show_leaflike, children)
     _layer_show(io, obj, indent, name)
   else
-    println(io, " "^indent, isnothing(name) ? "" : "$name = ", nameof(typeof(obj)), "(")
+    println(io, " "^indent, isnothing(name) ? "" : "$name = ", nameof(typeof(obj)), pre)
     if obj isa Chain{<:NamedTuple} && children == getfield(obj, :layers)
       # then we insert names -- can this be done more generically? 
       for k in Base.keys(obj)
@@ -35,10 +36,10 @@ function _big_show(io::IO, obj, indent::Int=0, name=nothing)
       end
     end
     if indent == 0  # i.e. this is the outermost container
-      print(io, ")")
+      print(io, rpad(post, 2))
       _big_finale(io, obj)
     else
-      println(io, " "^indent, "),")
+      println(io, " "^indent, post, ",")
     end
   end
 end
@@ -90,18 +91,18 @@ function _big_finale(io::IO, m)
     noncnt = _childarray_sum(_->1, m) - length(ps)
     if noncnt > 0
       nonparam = underscorise(_childarray_sum(length, m) - sum(length, ps))
-      printstyled(io, " "^09, "# Total: ", length(ps), " trainable arrays, "; color=:light_black)
+      printstyled(io, " "^08, "# Total: ", length(ps), " trainable arrays, "; color=:light_black)
       println(io, pars, " parameters,")
       printstyled(io, " "^10, "# plus ", noncnt, " non-trainable, ", nonparam, " parameters, summarysize "; color=:light_black)
       print(io, bytes, ".")
     else
-      printstyled(io, " "^19, "# Total: ", length(ps), " arrays, "; color=:light_black)
+      printstyled(io, " "^18, "# Total: ", length(ps), " arrays, "; color=:light_black)
       print(io, pars, " parameters, ", bytes, ".")
     end
   end
 end
 
-_childarray_sum(f, x::AbstractArray) = f(x)
+_childarray_sum(f, x::AbstractArray{<:Number}) = f(x)
 _childarray_sum(f, x) = isleaf(x) ? 0 : sum(y -> _childarray_sum(f, y), Functors.children(x))
 
 # utility functions

test/layers/basic.jl

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ import Flux: activations
     @test m == fmap(identity, m)  # does not forget names
 
     @test_throws ArgumentError Chain(layers = Dense(10, 10), two = identity) # reserved name
+
+    @test_nowarn Chain([Dense(10, 5, σ), Dense(5, 2)])(randn(Float32, 10))  # vector of layers
   end
 
   @testset "Activations" begin
@@ -297,3 +299,41 @@ import Flux: activations
     @test_throws DimensionMismatch m(OneHotVector(3, 1000))
   end
 end
+
+@testset "second derivatives" begin
+  m1 = Chain(Dense(3,4,tanh; bias=false), Dense(4,2))
+  @test Zygote.hessian_dual(sum∘m1, [1,2,3]) ≈ Zygote.hessian_reverse(sum∘m1, [1,2,3])
+
+  m1v = Chain([m1[1], m1[2]])  # vector of layers
+  @test Zygote.hessian_dual(sum∘m1v, [1,2,3]) ≈ Zygote.hessian_dual(sum∘m1, [1,2,3])
+  @test_broken Zygote.hessian_dual(sum∘m1v, [1,2,3]) ≈ Zygote.hessian_reverse(sum∘m1v, [1,2,3])
+
+  # NNlib's softmax gradient writes in-place
+  m2 = Chain(Dense(3,4,tanh), Dense(4,2), softmax)
+  @test_broken Zygote.hessian_dual(sum∘m2, [1,2,3]) ≈ Zygote.hessian_reverse(sum∘m2, [1,2,3])
+
+  # https://github.com/FluxML/NNlib.jl/issues/362
+  m3 = Chain(Conv((3,), 2 => 3, relu), Dense(2,2))
+  x3 = cat(Float32[1 2; 3 4; 5 6; 7 8]; dims=3)
+  @test_broken Zygote.hessian_dual(sum∘m3, x3) ≈ Zygote.hessian_reverse(sum∘m3, x3)
+end
+
+@testset "gradients of Chain{Vector}" begin
+  m1 = Chain(Dense(3,4,tanh; bias=false), Dense(4,2))
+  m1v = Chain([m1[1], m1[2]])
+  @test sum(length, params(m1)) == sum(length, params(m1v))
+
+  x1 = randn(Float32,3,5)
+  @test m1(x1) ≈ m1v(x1)
+
+  y1 = rand(Bool,2,5)
+  g1 = gradient(() -> Flux.Losses.logitcrossentropy(m1(x1), y1), params(m1))
+  g1v = gradient(() -> Flux.Losses.logitcrossentropy(m1v(x1), y1), params(m1v))
+  @test g1[m1[1].weight] ≈ g1v[m1v[1].weight]
+  @test g1[m1[2].bias] ≈ g1v[m1v[2].bias]
+
+  @test Flux.destructure(m1)[1] ≈ Flux.destructure(m1v)[1]
+  z1 = rand(22);
+  @test Flux.destructure(m1)[2](z1)[1].weight ≈ Flux.destructure(m1v)[2](z1)[1].weight
+  # Note that Flux.destructure(m1v)[2](z) has a Chain{Tuple}, as does m1v[1:2]
+end

test/runtests.jl

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using Flux: OneHotArray, OneHotMatrix, OneHotVector
 using Test
 using Random, Statistics, LinearAlgebra
 using IterTools: ncycle
+using Zygote
 using CUDA
 
 Random.seed!(0)