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/// <amd-module name="@tensorflow/tfjs-core/dist/serialization" />
/**
 * Types to support JSON-esque data structures internally.
 *
 * Internally ConfigDict's use camelCase keys and values where the
 * values are class names to be instantiated.  On the python side, these
 * will be snake_case.  Internally we allow Enums into the values for better
 * type safety, but these need to be converted to raw primitives (usually
 * strings) for round-tripping with python.
 *
 * toConfig returns the TS-friendly representation. model.toJSON() returns
 * the pythonic version as that's the portable format.  If you need to
 * python-ify a non-model level toConfig output, you'll need to use a
 * convertTsToPythonic from serialization_utils in -Layers.
 *
 */
export declare type ConfigDictValue = boolean | number | string | null | ConfigDictArray | ConfigDict;
export declare interface ConfigDict {
    [key: string]: ConfigDictValue;
}
export declare interface ConfigDictArray extends Array<ConfigDictValue> {
}
/**
 * Type to represent the class-type of Serializable objects.
 *
 * Ie the class prototype with access to the constructor and any
 * static members/methods. Instance methods are not listed here.
 *
 * Source for this idea: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43607255
 */
export declare type SerializableConstructor<T extends Serializable> = {
    new (...args: any[]): T;
    className: string;
    fromConfig: FromConfigMethod<T>;
};
export declare type FromConfigMethod<T extends Serializable> = (cls: SerializableConstructor<T>, config: ConfigDict) => T;
/**
 * Serializable defines the serialization contract.
 *
 * TFJS requires serializable classes to return their className when asked
 * to avoid issues with minification.
 */
export declare abstract class Serializable {
    /**
     * Return the class name for this class to use in serialization contexts.
     *
     * Generally speaking this will be the same thing that constructor.name
     * would have returned.  However, the class name needs to be robust
     * against minification for serialization/deserialization to work properly.
     *
     * There's also places such as initializers.VarianceScaling, where
     * implementation details between different languages led to different
     * class hierarchies and a non-leaf node is used for serialization purposes.
     */
    getClassName(): string;
    /**
     * Return all the non-weight state needed to serialize this object.
     */
    abstract getConfig(): ConfigDict;
    /**
     * Creates an instance of T from a ConfigDict.
     *
     * This works for most descendants of serializable.  A few need to
     * provide special handling.
     * @param cls A Constructor for the class to instantiate.
     * @param config The Configuration for the object.
     */
    /** @nocollapse */
    static fromConfig<T extends Serializable>(cls: SerializableConstructor<T>, config: ConfigDict): T;
}
/**
 * Maps string keys to class constructors.
 *
 * Used during (de)serialization from the cross-language JSON format, which
 * requires the class name in the serialization format matches the class
 * names as used in Python, should it exist.
 */
export declare class SerializationMap {
    private static instance;
    classNameMap: {
        [className: string]: [
            SerializableConstructor<Serializable>,
            FromConfigMethod<Serializable>
        ];
    };
    private constructor();
    /**
     * Returns the singleton instance of the map.
     */
    static getMap(): SerializationMap;
    /**
     * Registers the class as serializable.
     */
    static register<T extends Serializable>(cls: SerializableConstructor<T>): void;
}
/**
 * Register a class with the serialization map of TensorFlow.js.
 *
 * This is often used for registering custom Layers, so they can be
 * serialized and deserialized.
 *
 * Example:
 *
 * ```js
 * class MyCustomLayer extends tf.layers.Layer {
 *   static className = 'MyCustomLayer';
 *
 *   constructor(config) {
 *     super(config);
 *   }
 * }
 * tf.serialization.registerClass(MyCustomLayer);
 * ```
 *
 * @param cls The class to be registered. It must have a public static member
 *   called `className` defined and the value must be a non-empty string.
 *
 * @doc {heading: 'Models', subheading: 'Serialization', ignoreCI: true}
 */
export declare function registerClass<T extends Serializable>(cls: SerializableConstructor<T>): void;