Clone module in Scala

I have a requirement in my software design that requires me to use multiple instances of the same module in Scala (via org.apache.mxnet.module.Module). Is there a way to create a deep-copy of the model so that I don’t need to read the module from disk for each instance?

Thanks!

You can use getParams() to get the parameters from the original module and use setParams() to set those parameters on the second module.

Just to clarify, the params would not share memory? it’s ok if they do (even preferable) as long as that doesn’t introduce concurrency problems.

ps. something like this is ok?

          // load the model artifacts
          final Tuple3<Symbol, Map<String,NDArray>, Map<String,NDArray>> modelArtifacts =
              org.apache.mxnet.Model.loadCheckpoint(modelPath, 0);

          final Symbol symbol = modelArtifacts._1();
          final Map<String,NDArray> argParams = modelArtifacts._2();
          final Map<String,NDArray> auxParams = modelArtifacts._3();

          final List<Module> models = Arrays.asList(new Module[numModelCopies]);

          for(int i = 0; i < numModelCopies; ++i) {
              final Module module = new Module.Builder(symbol).setContext(context).build();

              // forTraining, inputNeedsGrad, forceRebind, dataDescs
              final List<DataDesc> dataDescs = getDataDescriptions();
              module.bind(false, false, false, JavaConverters.asScalaBufferConverter(dataDescs).asScala());

              // argParams, auxParams, allowMissing, forceInit, allowExtra
              module.setParams(argParams, auxParams, true, false, false);

              models.set(i, module);
          }