Hello,
I have a problem (Assign variable to model parameter) which could be solved if I could assign a variable to model parameter. But apparently this is not allowed, i.e. model parameters must be parameters, and cannot be variables.
From my understanding, the main differences between Parameters and Variables is that

Parameters have requires_grad = True by default, and Variables don’t
Parameters are not allowed to have any history (i.e. their creator field is None). Actually I am not sure about this, but this example suggested it:




a = torch.nn.Parameter(torch.Tensor([1,2]))
b = a + 1
b
Variable containing:
2
3
[torch.FloatTensor of size 2]



So any operation on a parameter causes it to become a variable.
Why is it implemented this way? This will incidentally prevent me from assigning a variable as a model parameter, but I don’t see why that would be undesirable.
Thank you!