[Relay][Frontend][TFlite] Add parses support for SLICE (#4502)

* [Relay][Frontend][TFlite] Add parses support for SLICE

* TFlite 1.13: convertor gives nonsense output when size[i]==-1
* TF parser: SLICE need fixing for size[i]==-1 -> gives wrong output
  bcs of indices

* Set end[i] = input_tensor_shape[i] as suggested in PR review

* Add another test to cover size=-1 case

python/tvm/relay/frontend/tflite.py

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ class OperatorConverter(object):
             'TANH':self.convert_tanh,
             'RELU':self.convert_relu,
             'SPLIT': self.convert_split,
+            'SLICE': self.convert_slice,
             'TRANSPOSE': self.convert_transpose,
             'CAST': self.convert_cast,
             'TILE': self.convert_tile,
@@ -1152,6 +1153,35 @@ class OperatorConverter(object):
 
         return out
 
+    def convert_slice(self, op):
+        """Convert TFLite SLICE"""
+        try:
+            from tflite.Operator import Operator
+        except ImportError:
+            raise ImportError("The tflite package must be installed")
+
+        assert isinstance(op, Operator)
+        input_tensors = self.get_input_tensors(op)
+        assert len(input_tensors) == 3, "input tensors length should be == 3"
+        input_tensor = input_tensors[0]
+        in_expr = self.get_expr(input_tensor.tensor_idx)
+
+        begin = list(self.get_tensor_value(input_tensors[1]))
+        size = list(self.get_tensor_value(input_tensors[2]))
+        # strided_slice(Relay) needs the slice's end indices, not the size
+        end = size
+        input_tensor_shape = input_tensor.tensor.ShapeAsNumpy()
+        input_tensor_rank = len(input_tensor_shape)
+        for i in range(input_tensor_rank):
+            if size[i] == -1:
+                end[i] = input_tensor_shape[i]
+            else:
+                end[i] += begin[i]
+
+        out = _op.strided_slice(in_expr, begin, end)
+
+        return out
+
     def convert_transpose(self, op):
         """transpose implementation."""
         try:

tests/python/frontend/tflite/test_forward.py

@@ -225,6 +225,26 @@ def test_forward_split():
     _test_split((1, 3, 5, 6), -1, 3, 'float32')
 
 #######################################################################
+# slice
+# -----
+
+def _test_slice(data, begin, size):
+    """ One iteration of SLICE """
+    with tf.Graph().as_default():
+        in_data = array_ops.placeholder(shape=data.shape, dtype=data.dtype)
+        out = array_ops.slice(in_data, begin, size)
+        compare_tflite_with_tvm(data, 'Placeholder:0', [in_data], [out])
+
+def test_forward_slice():
+    """ SLICE """
+    _test_slice(np.arange(4, dtype=np.float32).reshape((4, )), begin=[0], size=[2])
+    _test_slice(np.arange(18, dtype=np.int32).reshape((3, 2, 3)), begin=[1, 0, 0], size=[1, 1, 3])
+    # tflite 1.13 outputs nonsense values if size[i] == -1
+    if package_version.parse(tf.VERSION) >= package_version.parse('1.14.0'):
+        _test_slice(np.arange(8, dtype=np.int32).reshape((2, 4)), begin=[0, 1], size=[-1, -1])
+        _test_slice(np.arange(5, dtype=np.int32).reshape((5, )), begin=[4], size=[-1])
+
+#######################################################################
 # transpose
 # ---------
 
@@ -1408,6 +1428,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     test_forward_reshape()
     test_all_resize()
     test_forward_squeeze()
+    test_forward_slice()
 
     # NN
     test_forward_convolution()