ScalarInitInfo

Initialization for a SCALAR array tensor.

It is not recommended to create a Tensor from ScalarInitInfo directly. It is recommended to use StringInitInfo, ShortArrayInitInfo, IntArrayInitInfo, FloatArrayInitInfo, and DoubleArrayInitInfo instead.

Note here, since a SCALAR array tensor is a special-usage tensor, it is not the exact tensor as we have been using in mathematics and physics. Rather, the word tensor represents an opaque handle or an abstraction of data, that your application hands over to SecureMR service to process.

A SCALAR array is a single-dimension array of 1-channel elements. It is the same as a multi-dimensional tensor with dimensions = N, 1 or 1, N. Yet, a scalar array is used when there is no need to distinguish row-v.s.-column vector, such as an array of texture or material indices. Also, the introduction of SCALAR array allows for a syntax sugar, where you can directly use an Array<T> object in Kotlin, as a SecureMR tensor when you call any Pipeline methods. The SecureMR tensor automatically boxed from Array<T> will be of SCALAR array usage.

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