arm_compute v20.05
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2020 ARM Limited.
+ *
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+ * SOFTWARE.
+ */
+
+#include "QLSTMLayerNormalization.h"
+#include "ArithmeticOperations.h"
+#include "MeanStdDevNormalizationLayer.h"
+#include "PixelWiseMultiplication.h"
+#include "arm_compute/core/utils/misc/Utility.h"
+#include "src/core/utils/quantization/AsymmHelpers.cpp"
+
+namespace arm_compute
+{
+namespace test
+{
+namespace validation
+{
+namespace reference
+{
+SimpleTensor<int16_t> qlstm_layer_normalization(const SimpleTensor<int16_t> &src, const SimpleTensor<int16_t> &weight, const SimpleTensor<int32_t> &bias)
+{
+    ARM_COMPUTE_ERROR_ON(src.shape().num_dimensions() > 2);
+    SimpleTensor<int16_t> output{ src.shape(), DataType::QSYMM16 };
+
+    const auto wq_info = weight.quantization_info().uniform();
+    int        output_multiplier{};
+    int        output_shift{};
+    const auto s = quantization::calculate_quantized_multiplier(wq_info.scale, &output_multiplier, &output_shift);
+    output_shift *= -1;
+
+    if(!bool(s))
+    {
+        output_multiplier = 0;
+        output_shift      = 0;
+    }
+
+    const uint32_t num_batch = src.shape()[1];
+    const uint32_t num_input = src.shape()[0];
+
+    for(uint32_t batch_idx = 0; batch_idx < num_batch; ++batch_idx)
+    {
+        int64_t sum{};
+        int64_t sum_sq{};
+
+        for(uint32_t input_idx = 0; input_idx < num_input; ++input_idx)
+        {
+            const auto index = batch_idx * num_input + input_idx;
+            const auto val   = static_cast<int32_t>(src[index]);
+            sum += val;
+            sum_sq += val * val;
+        }
+
+        const auto temp     = static_cast<int64_t>(0x100000) / num_input;
+        const auto mean     = sum * 1024 / static_cast<int64_t>(num_input);
+        const auto variance = ((sum_sq * temp) - (mean * mean)) / 0x100000;
+
+        int32_t stddev_invsqrt_mul{};
+        int32_t stddev_invsqrt_shift{};
+        quantization::get_invsqrt_quantized_multiplier_exp(variance, -1, stddev_invsqrt_mul, stddev_invsqrt_shift);
+
+        for(uint32_t input_idx = 0; input_idx < num_input; ++input_idx)
+        {
+            const auto    index           = batch_idx * num_input + input_idx;
+            const auto    val             = static_cast<int32_t>(src[index]);
+            const auto    shifted         = (val << 10) - mean;
+            const auto    rescaled        = quantization::multiply_by_quantized_multiplier(shifted, stddev_invsqrt_mul, stddev_invsqrt_shift);
+            const int64_t weighted        = rescaled * weight[input_idx] + bias[input_idx];
+            const auto    reverse_shifted = static_cast<int32_t>((weighted + 512) >> 10);
+            auto          out_val         = quantization::multiply_by_quantized_multiplier(reverse_shifted, output_multiplier, output_shift + 12);
+            out_val                       = arm_compute::utility::clamp<decltype(out_val), int16_t>(out_val, std::numeric_limits<int16_t>::min());
+            output[index]                 = static_cast<int16_t>(out_val);
+        }
+    }
+    return output;
+}
+} // namespace reference
+} // namespace validation
+} // namespace test
+} // namespace arm_compute