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/* Copyright 2016 The TensorFlow Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
==============================================================================*/

#ifndef TENSORFLOW_CORE_UTIL_CTC_CTC_LOSS_UTIL_H_
#define TENSORFLOW_CORE_UTIL_CTC_CTC_LOSS_UTIL_H_

#include <cmath>
#include <limits>

namespace tensorflow {
namespace ctc {

const float kLogZero = -std::numeric_limits<float>::infinity();

// Add logarithmic probabilities using:
// ln(a + b) = ln(a) + ln(1 + exp(ln(b) - ln(a)))
// The two inputs are assumed to be log probabilities.
// (GravesTh) Eq. 7.18
inline float LogSumExp(float log_prob_1, float log_prob_2) {
  // Always have 'b' be the smaller number to avoid the exponential from
  // blowing up.
  if (log_prob_1 == kLogZero && log_prob_2 == kLogZero) {
    return kLogZero;
  } else {
    return (log_prob_1 > log_prob_2)
               ? log_prob_1 + log1pf(expf(log_prob_2 - log_prob_1))
               : log_prob_2 + log1pf(expf(log_prob_1 - log_prob_2));
  }
}

}  // namespace ctc
}  // namespace tensorflow

#endif  // TENSORFLOW_CORE_UTIL_CTC_CTC_LOSS_UTIL_H_