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NNEF Syntax Highlighting

NNEF Syntax Highlighting

Gursukh

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Syntax highlighting, snippets and editor support for Khronos NNEF (Neural Network Exchange Format) graph and quantization files.
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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NNEF Syntax Highlighting

Syntax highlighting, snippets and editor support for the Khronos NNEF (Neural Network Exchange Format) textual formats:

  • .nnef graph descriptions (e.g. graph.nnef), covering both flat and compositional syntax
  • graph.quant / .quant quantization files

NNEF syntax highlighting

Features

  • Highlighting based on the NNEF 1.0.5 specification grammar:
    • version and extension declarations (KHR_*, EXT_*, vendor extensions)
    • graph and fragment definitions, including generic fragments (fragment f<? = scalar>(...)) and bodiless custom operation declarations
    • Types: tensor<...>, integer, scalar, logical, string, generic ?, arrays [] and tuple types
    • All standard NNEF operations (external, variable, conv, max_pool, matmul, softmax, batch_normalization, quantization ops, …) are highlighted separately from custom fragment calls
    • Builtins length_of, range_of, shape_of and the cast functions integer(), scalar(), logical(), string()
    • Operator expressions, if/else and for … in … yield comprehensions
    • Named arguments, fragment parameters, numeric, string and logical literals, and # comments
  • Quantization files: tensor-name keys, quantization algorithm calls and per-channel array literals
  • Editor support: comment toggling (Ctrl+/), bracket matching, auto-closing pairs, auto-indent, and folding on { } blocks and # region / # endregion markers
  • Snippets: version, extension, graph, fragment, fragment<?>, fragment;, variable, conv, for

All scopes are standard TextMate scopes, so any colour theme works.

Usage

Install the extension and open any .nnef or graph.quant file. To use NNEF highlighting for a file with a different name, add a mapping to your settings:

"files.associations": {
  "*.nnef.txt": "nnef",
  "*.quant.txt": "nnef-quant"
}

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome at github.com/Gursukh/nnef-syntax.

npm install
npm test          # run the grammar scope tests in test/
npm run package   # build a .vsix

To try changes, open this folder in VS Code and press F5, or run code --extensionDevelopmentPath=., and then open a file from samples/.

License

MIT. NNEF is a trademark of The Khronos Group Inc. This extension is not affiliated with or endorsed by Khronos.

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