add nd.power and sym.pow

python/mxnet/ndarray/ndarray.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
            "ones", "add", "arange", "eye", "divide", "equal", "full", "greater", "greater_equal",
            "imdecode", "lesser", "lesser_equal", "logical_and", "logical_or", "logical_xor",
            "maximum", "minimum", "moveaxis", "modulo", "multiply", "not_equal", "onehot_encode",
-           "power", "subtract", "true_divide", "waitall", "_new_empty_handle", "histogram",
+           "pow", "power", "subtract", "true_divide", "waitall", "_new_empty_handle", "histogram",
            "split_v2", "to_dlpack_for_read", "to_dlpack_for_write", "from_dlpack"]
 
 _STORAGE_TYPE_UNDEFINED = -1
@@ -3018,6 +3018,62 @@ def power(base, exp):
     # pylint: enable= no-member, protected-access
 
 
+# pylint: disable=no-member
+# pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
+def pow(base, exp):
+    """Returns result of first array elements raised to powers from second array, element-wise
+    with broadcasting.
+
+    Equivalent to ``base ** exp`` and ``mx.nd.broadcast_power(lhs, rhs)``.
+
+    .. note::
+
+       If the corresponding dimensions of two arrays have the same size or one of them has size 1,
+       then the arrays are broadcastable to a common shape.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    base : scalar or NDArray
+         The base array
+    exp : scalar or NDArray
+         The exponent array. If ``base.shape != exp.shape``, they must be
+        broadcastable to a common shape.
+
+    Returns
+    --------
+    NDArray
+        The bases in x raised to the exponents in y.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> x = mx.nd.ones((2,3))*2
+    >>> y = mx.nd.arange(1,3).reshape((2,1))
+    >>> z = mx.nd.arange(1,3).reshape((2,1))
+    >>> x.asnumpy()
+    array([[ 2.,  2.,  2.],
+           [ 2.,  2.,  2.]], dtype=float32)
+    >>> y.asnumpy()
+    array([[ 1.],
+           [ 2.]], dtype=float32)
+    >>> z.asnumpy()
+    array([[ 1.],
+           [ 2.]], dtype=float32)
+    >>> (x**2).asnumpy()
+    array([[ 4.,  4.,  4.],
+           [ 4.,  4.,  4.]], dtype=float32)
+    >>> (x**y).asnumpy()
+    array([[ 2.,  2.,  2.],
+           [ 4.,  4.,  4.]], dtype=float32)
+    >>> mx.nd.pow(x,y).asnumpy()
+    array([[ 2.,  2.,  2.],
+           [ 4.,  4.,  4.]], dtype=float32)
+    >>> (z**y).asnumpy()
+    array([[ 1.],
+           [ 4.]], dtype=float32)
+    """
+    power(base, exp)
+
+
 def maximum(lhs, rhs):
     """Returns element-wise maximum of the input arrays with broadcasting.
 

python/mxnet/symbol/symbol.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 from ._internal import SymbolBase, _set_symbol_class
 
 __all__ = ["Symbol", "var", "Variable", "Group", "load", "load_json",
-           "pow", "maximum", "minimum", "hypot", "eye", "zeros", "ones", "full", "arange",
+           "pow", "power", "maximum", "minimum", "hypot", "eye", "zeros", "ones", "full", "arange",
            "histogram", "split_v2"]
 
 
@@ -2780,6 +2780,43 @@ def pow(base, exp):
         raise TypeError('types (%s, %s) not supported' % (str(type(base)), str(type(exp))))
 
 
+def power(base, exp):
+    """Returns element-wise result of base element raised to powers from exp element.
+
+    Both inputs can be Symbol or scalar number.
+    Broadcasting is not supported. Use `broadcast_pow` instead.
+
+    Parameters
+    ---------
+    base : Symbol or scalar
+        The base symbol
+    exp : Symbol or scalar
+        The exponent symbol
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    Symbol or scalar
+        The bases in x raised to the exponents in y.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> mx.sym.power(2, 3)
+    8
+    >>> x = mx.sym.Variable('x')
+    >>> y = mx.sym.Variable('y')
+    >>> z = mx.sym.power(x, 2)
+    >>> z.eval(x=mx.nd.array([1,2]))[0].asnumpy()
+    array([ 1.,  4.], dtype=float32)
+    >>> z = mx.sym.power(3, y)
+    >>> z.eval(y=mx.nd.array([2,3]))[0].asnumpy()
+    array([  9.,  27.], dtype=float32)
+    >>> z = mx.sym.power(x, y)
+    >>> z.eval(x=mx.nd.array([3,4]), y=mx.nd.array([2,3]))[0].asnumpy()
+    array([  9.,  64.], dtype=float32)
+    """
+    return pow(base, exp)
+
+
 # pylint: disable=no-member
 # pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
 def maximum(left, right):

tests/python/unittest/test_operator.py

@@ -698,11 +698,11 @@ def test_symbol_pow():
 def test_pow_fn():
     shape = (3, 4)
     exp = mx.symbol.Variable("exp")
-    y = mx.sym.pow(2, exp)
     x = np.ones(shape)*3
-    check_numeric_gradient(y, [x], numeric_eps=1E-3)
-    check_symbolic_forward(y, [x], [2**x])
-    check_symbolic_backward(y, [x], [np.ones(shape)], [np.log(2) * 2**x])
+    for y in [mx.sym.pow(2, exp), mx.sym.power(2, exp)]:
+        check_numeric_gradient(y, [x], numeric_eps=1E-3)
+        check_symbolic_forward(y, [x], [2**x])
+        check_symbolic_backward(y, [x], [np.ones(shape)], [np.log(2) * 2**x])
 
 
 @with_seed()
@@ -6675,7 +6675,12 @@ def test_binary_math_operators():
                 lambda x, y: np.power(x, y),
                 lambda x, y: np.power(x, y - 1.) * y,
                 lambda x, y: np.power(x, y) * np.log(x),
-                0.2, 5.0, -4.0, 4.0]
+                0.2, 5.0, -4.0, 4.0],
+        'power': [lambda x, y: mx.sym.power(x, y),
+                  lambda x, y: np.power(x, y),
+                  lambda x, y: np.power(x, y - 1.) * y,
+                  lambda x, y: np.power(x, y) * np.log(x),
+                  0.2, 5.0, -4.0, 4.0]
     }
     # Loop over operators
     for name, op in binary_ops.items():