Reworked register_stabilize to work like register_canonicalize and register_specialize.

theano/tensor/nnet/nnet.py

@@ -1330,6 +1330,7 @@ class CrossentropyCategorical1Hot(gof.Op):
 crossentropy_categorical_1hot = CrossentropyCategorical1Hot()
 
 
+@opt.register_stabilize('gpu')
 @opt.register_specialize('gpu')
 @gof.optimizer
 def crossentropy_to_crossentropy_with_softmax_with_bias(fgraph):
@@ -1358,8 +1359,6 @@ def crossentropy_to_crossentropy_with_softmax_with_bias(fgraph):
     while search_make_one_sub():
         pass
     return
-opt.register_stabilize(crossentropy_to_crossentropy_with_softmax_with_bias,
-                       'gpu')
 
 
 @gof.optimizer

theano/tensor/opt.py

@@ -321,6 +321,11 @@ def register_canonicalize(lopt, *tags, **kwargs):
 
 
 def register_stabilize(lopt, *tags, **kwargs):
+    if type(lopt) == str:
+        def register(inner_lopt):
+            return register_stabilize(inner_lopt, *tags, **kwargs)
+        return register
+    else:
         name = (kwargs and kwargs.pop('name')) or lopt.__name__
         compile.optdb['stabilize'].register(name, lopt, 'fast_run', *tags)
         return lopt
@@ -4161,6 +4166,8 @@ def attempt_distribution(factor, num, denum, out_type):
                                    neg_pairs))), num, denum
 
 
+@register_canonicalize
+@register_stabilize
 @gof.local_optimizer([T.mul, T.true_div, T.inv])
 def local_greedy_distributor(node):
     """
@@ -4225,10 +4232,10 @@ def local_greedy_distributor(node):
 
     return [rval]
 
-register_canonicalize(local_greedy_distributor)
-register_stabilize(local_greedy_distributor)
-
 
+@register_canonicalize('fast_compile')
+@register_stabilize('fast_compile')
+@register_specialize('fast_compile')
 @gof.local_optimizer(None)
 def constant_folding(node):
     for input in node.inputs:
@@ -4262,10 +4269,6 @@ def constant_folding(node):
         rval.append(constant(output.type, storage_map[output][0]))
     return rval
 
-register_canonicalize(constant_folding, 'fast_compile')
-register_stabilize(constant_folding, 'fast_compile')
-register_specialize(constant_folding, 'fast_compile')
-
 
 def _is_1(expr):
     """rtype bool. True iff expr is a constant close to 1