def collate_fn_padd(batch):
'''
Padds batch of variable length
note: it converts things ToTensor manually here since the ToTensor transform
assume it takes in images rather than arbitrary tensors.
'''
## get sequence lengths
lengths = torch.tensor([ t.shape[0] for t in batch ]).to(device)
## padd
batch = [ torch.Tensor(t).to(device) for t in batch ]
batch = torch.nn.utils.rnn.pad_sequence(batch)
## compute mask
mask = (batch != 0).to(device)
return batch, lengths, mask