.. _guide-nn-construction:

3.1 DGL NN Module Construction Function
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:ref:`(中文版) <guide_cn-nn-construction>`

The construction function performs the following steps:

1. Set options.
2. Register learnable parameters or submodules.
3. Reset parameters.

.. code::

    import torch.nn as nn

    from dgl.utils import expand_as_pair

    class SAGEConv(nn.Module):
        def __init__(self,
                     in_feats,
                     out_feats,
                     aggregator_type,
                     bias=True,
                     norm=None,
                     activation=None):
            super(SAGEConv, self).__init__()

            self._in_src_feats, self._in_dst_feats = expand_as_pair(in_feats)
            self._out_feats = out_feats
            self._aggre_type = aggregator_type
            self.norm = norm
            self.activation = activation

In construction function, one first needs to set the data dimensions. For
general PyTorch module, the dimensions are usually input dimension,
output dimension and hidden dimensions. For graph neural, the input
dimension can be split into source node dimension and destination node
dimension.

Besides data dimensions, a typical option for graph neural network is
aggregation type (``self._aggre_type``). Aggregation type determines how
messages on different edges are aggregated for a certain destination
node. Commonly used aggregation types include ``mean``, ``sum``,
``max``, ``min``. Some modules may apply more complicated aggregation
like an ``lstm``.

``norm`` here is a callable function for feature normalization. In the
SAGEConv paper, such normalization can be l2 normalization:
:math:`h_v = h_v / \lVert h_v \rVert_2`.

.. code::

            # aggregator type: mean, max_pool, lstm, gcn
            if aggregator_type not in ['mean', 'max_pool', 'lstm', 'gcn']:
                raise KeyError('Aggregator type {} not supported.'.format(aggregator_type))
            if aggregator_type == 'max_pool':
                self.fc_pool = nn.Linear(self._in_src_feats, self._in_src_feats)
            if aggregator_type == 'lstm':
                self.lstm = nn.LSTM(self._in_src_feats, self._in_src_feats, batch_first=True)
            if aggregator_type in ['mean', 'max_pool', 'lstm']:
                self.fc_self = nn.Linear(self._in_dst_feats, out_feats, bias=bias)
            self.fc_neigh = nn.Linear(self._in_src_feats, out_feats, bias=bias)
            self.reset_parameters()

Register parameters and submodules. In SAGEConv, submodules vary
according to the aggregation type. Those modules are pure PyTorch nn
modules like ``nn.Linear``, ``nn.LSTM``, etc. At the end of construction
function, weight initialization is applied by calling
``reset_parameters()``.

.. code::

        def reset_parameters(self):
            """Reinitialize learnable parameters."""
            gain = nn.init.calculate_gain('relu')
            if self._aggre_type == 'max_pool':
                nn.init.xavier_uniform_(self.fc_pool.weight, gain=gain)
            if self._aggre_type == 'lstm':
                self.lstm.reset_parameters()
            if self._aggre_type != 'gcn':
                nn.init.xavier_uniform_(self.fc_self.weight, gain=gain)
            nn.init.xavier_uniform_(self.fc_neigh.weight, gain=gain)
