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+import torch 
+from torch import functional
+
+
+# from https://gist.github.com/jihunchoi/f1434a77df9db1bb337417854b398df1
+def _sequence_mask(sequence_length, max_len=None):
+    if max_len is None:
+        max_len = sequence_length.data.max()
+    batch_size = sequence_length.size(0)
+    seq_range = torch.range(0, max_len - 1).long()
+    seq_range_expand = seq_range.unsqueeze(0).expand(batch_size, max_len)
+    seq_range_expand = Variable(seq_range_expand)
+    if sequence_length.is_cuda:
+        seq_range_expand = seq_range_expand.cuda()
+    seq_length_expand = (sequence_length.unsqueeze(1)
+                         .expand_as(seq_range_expand))
+    return seq_range_expand < seq_length_expand
+
+
+def L1LossMasked(input, target, length):
+    """
+    Args:
+        logits: A Variable containing a FloatTensor of size
+            (batch, max_len, num_classes) which contains the
+            unnormalized probability for each class.
+        target: A Variable containing a LongTensor of size
+            (batch, max_len) which contains the index of the true
+            class for each corresponding step.
+        length: A Variable containing a LongTensor of size (batch,)
+            which contains the length of each data in a batch.
+    Returns:
+        loss: An average loss value masked by the length.
+    """
+
+    # logits_flat: (batch * max_len, num_classes)
+    input = input.view(-1, input.size(-1))
+    # target_flat: (batch * max_len, 1)
+    target_flat = target.view(-1, 1)
+    # losses_flat: (batch * max_len, 1)
+    losees_flat = functional.l1_loss(input, target, size_average=False,
+                         reduce=False)
+    # losses: (batch, max_len)
+    losses = losses_flat.view(*target.size())
+    # mask: (batch, max_len)
+    mask = _sequence_mask(sequence_length=length, max_len=target.size(1))
+    losses = losses * mask.float()
+    loss = losses.sum() / length.float().sum()
+    return loss
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