class_docstr: Class for composing individual encoding stages.
  
  This class provides functionality for arbitrarily composing individual
  encoding stages (implementations of `EncodingStageInterface` or
  `AdaptiveEncodingStageInterface`) into a tree, where an output `Tensor` of an
  encoding stage can be further encoded by another encoding stage.
  
  The interface is similar to that of `AdaptiveEncodingStageInterface`, with the
  additional methods `decode_before_sum` and `decode_after_sum`. These methods
  split the decoding functionality to two parts, based on commutativity with
  summation.
  
  Similar to the `AdaptiveEncodingStageInterface`, the methods are designed to
  be functional transformations. That means, for instance, that the
  `initial_state` and `update_state` methods do not modify any underlying state.
  Rather, the user of the `Encoder` class is responsible for storing any values
  if necessary, and providing them back to appropriate methods of this class.
docstr: Creates an initial state for the Encoder.
  
  Args:
    name: `string`, name of the operation.
  
  Returns:
    A dictionary with two keys: `EncoderKeys.STATE` and
    `EncoderKeys.CHILDREN`. The `EncoderKeys.STATE` key maps to a dictionary
    containing the initial state of the encoding stage controlled by this
    class. The `EncoderKeys.CHILDREN` key maps to a dictionary with the same
    keys as `self.children`, each of which maps to an object like this one,
    recursively.
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code: def initial_state(self, name=None):
      """Creates an initial state for the Encoder.
  
      Args:
        name: `string`, name of the operation.
  
      Returns:
        A dictionary with two keys: `EncoderKeys.STATE` and
        `EncoderKeys.CHILDREN`. The `EncoderKeys.STATE` key maps to a dictionary
        containing the initial state of the encoding stage controlled by this
        class. The `EncoderKeys.CHILDREN` key maps to a dictionary with the same
        keys as `self.children`, each of which maps to an object like this one,
        recursively.
      """
      with tf.compat.v1.name_scope(name, "encoder_initial_state"):
          return self._initial_state_impl()
  
imports: from __future__ import absolute_import
  from __future__ import division
  from __future__ import print_function
  import six
  import tensorflow
  from tensorflow_model_optimization.python.core.internal.tensor_encoding.core import encoding_stage
  from tensorflow_model_optimization.python.core.internal.tensor_encoding.utils import py_utils
label_desc: Use image node_id 6 for calling the Encoder obj's underlying member method code with example usage: obj.initial_state(name) and returns: self