In Tensorflow, how to assign values in Tensor according to the indices?
<p>I want to assign values in a tensor according to the indices.</p>

<p>For example,
According to the pooling values and the corresponding indices output of <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.9/api_docs/python/nn.html#max_pool_with_argmax">tf.nn.max_pool_with_argmax</a>, I want to put these pooling values back into the original unpooling Tensor with the indices.</p>

<p>I find the output indices of <code>tf.nn.max_pool_with_argmax</code> is flattened.
One question: How to unravel them back into the coordinates in Tensorflow?</p>

<p>Another question: How to assign each value of the pooling tensor to the position of the original unpooling tensor in Tensorflow, given the indices?</p>

<p>Thank you very much.</p>

<p>I tried to make the codes to achieve that, but I can just use <code>numpy</code>. I do not how to obtain the flattened indices after the <code>tf.nn.max_pool_with_argmax</code> and assigning into the unpooling tensor in Tensorflow.</p>

<pre><code>ksize = 3
stride = 1

input_image = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, name='input_image')

#conv1
kernel = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal([ksize, ksize, 3, 16],stddev=0.1),
                    name='kernel')
conv = tf.nn.conv2d(input_image, kernel, [1,stride,stride,1], padding='SAME')
biases = tf.Variable(tf.constant(0.0, shape = [16]), name = 'biases')
bias = tf.nn.bias_add(conv, biases)
conv1 = tf.nn.relu(bias, name='conv1')

#pool1
pool1, pool1_indices = tf.nn.max_pool_with_argmax(conv1, ksize=[1, 2, 2, 1], 
                                                  strides=[1, 2, 2, 1], 
                                                  padding='SAME', name='pool1')

#upsample by assigning the values of pool1 to the position in unpooling Tensor according to pool1_indices                                                
indices = pool1_indices
unravel_pool1_indices = np.unravel_index(indices,[4,32,32,16])
unravel_pool1_coordinates = np.array(unravel_pool1_indices)
coor_shape = np.shape(unravel_pool1_coordinates)
unravel_pool1_coordinates = np.reshape(unravel_pool1_coordinates,(coor_shape[0],coor_shape[1]*coor_shape[2]*coor_shape[3]*coor_shape[4]))
unravel_pool1_coordinates = unravel_pool1_coordinates.T

values = pool1
values = np.reshape(values,(np.size(values)))

up1 = tf.constant(0.0, shape = [4,32,32,16])
delta = tf.SparseTensor(unravel_pool1_coordinates, values, shape = [4,32,32,16])

result = up1 + tf.sparse_tensor_to_dense(delta)


with tf.Session() as session:
    session.run(tf.initialize_all_variables())
    test_image = np.random.rand(4,32,32,3)
    sess_outputs = session.run([pool1, pool1_indices],
                               {input_image.name: test_image})
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