//! Patch Embedding module for Vision Transformers.
use crate::nn::Module;
use crate::tensor::Tensor;
/// A placeholder for a Vision Transformer (ViT) patch embedding layer.
/// This module's purpose is to transform an image into a sequence of flattened patches,
/// which can then be fed into a standard Transformer encoder. This is a key component
/// for applying transformers to computer vision tasks.
pub struct PatchEmbedding {
// Parameters for patch embedding will go here.
// e.g., patch_size, stride, projection matrix.
}
impl PatchEmbedding {
#[allow(dead_code)]
pub fn new() -> Self {
println!("INFO: Initializing PatchEmbedding module (for future Vision Transformer use).");
Self {}
}
}
impl Module for PatchEmbedding {
fn forward(&self, _input: &Tensor) -> Tensor {
// The actual implementation of creating patch embeddings from an image tensor.
// 1. Reshape image into patches (e.g., from [Batch, Channels, Height, Width] to [Batch, NumPatches, PatchSize * PatchSize * Channels]).
// 2. Linearly project flattened patches to the transformer's embedding dimension.
unimplemented!("PatchEmbedding forward pass is not yet implemented.");
}
fn parameters(&self) -> Vec<Tensor> {
vec![]
}
}