def init(cls, typ, class2type):
        """
        Defines custom fields in the value factory so that the importer can find them
        @param typ
        @param class2type
        """
        field = typ.getField(cls.FIELD_NAME)
        class2type.put( StrStrHashMap , typ )
        typ.setComponentType( StrStrHashMap )
        typ.setImportExportHelper( StrStrHashMapSerializer(typ, field))
        typ.putValidator(field, Validator_object.get(1))
        typ.lock()
def gradient(self, idx, inputs):
        self.model.zero_grad()
        X = [x.requires_grad_() for x in inputs]
        outputs = self.model(*X)
        selected = [val for val in outputs[:, idx]]
        grads = []
        if self.interim:
            interim_inputs = self.layer.target_input
            for idx, input in enumerate(interim_inputs):
                grad = torch.autograd.grad(selected, input,
                                           retain_graph=True if idx + 1 < len(interim_inputs) else None,
                                           allow_unused=True)[0]
                if grad is not None:
                    grad = grad.cpu().numpy()
                else:
                    grad = torch.zeros_like(X[idx]).cpu().numpy()
                grads.append(grad)
            del self.layer.target_input
            return grads, [i.detach().cpu().numpy() for i in interim_inputs]
        else:
            for idx, x in enumerate(X):
                grad = torch.autograd.grad(selected, x,
                                           retain_graph=True if idx + 1 < len(X) else None,
                                           allow_unused=True)[0]
                if grad is not None:
                    grad = grad.cpu().numpy()
                else:
                    grad = torch.zeros_like(X[idx]).cpu().numpy()
                grads.append(grad)
            return grads