[*] improve log message for storage view content

Author: tirivo

include/ctranslate2/storage_view.h

@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ namespace ctranslate2 {
 
     friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const StorageView& storage);
 
+    template <typename T>
+    void print_tensor(std::ostream& os, const T* data, const std::vector<dim_t>& shape, size_t dim, size_t offset, int indent) const;
+
   protected:
     DataType _dtype = DataType::FLOAT32;
     Device _device = Device::CPU;

src/storage_view.cc

@@ -441,31 +441,35 @@ namespace ctranslate2 {
   }
 
   std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const StorageView& storage) {
+    // Create a printable copy of the storage
     StorageView printable(storage.dtype());
     printable.copy_from(storage);
+
+    // Check the data type and print accordingly
     TYPE_DISPATCH(
       printable.dtype(),
       const auto* values = printable.data<T>();
-      if (printable.size() <= PRINT_MAX_VALUES) {
-        for (dim_t i = 0; i < printable.size(); ++i) {
-          os << ' ';
-          print_value(os, values[i]);
-        }
-      }
-      else {
-        for (dim_t i = 0; i < PRINT_MAX_VALUES / 2; ++i) {
-          os << ' ';
-          print_value(os, values[i]);
-        }
-        os << " ...";
-        for (dim_t i = printable.size() - (PRINT_MAX_VALUES / 2); i < printable.size(); ++i) {
-          os << ' ';
-          print_value(os, values[i]);
-        }
+      const auto& shape = printable.shape();
+
+      // Print tensor contents based on dimensionality
+      if (shape.empty()) { // Scalar case
+        os << "Data (Scalar): " << values[0] << std::endl;
+      } else {
+        os << "Data (" << shape.size() << "D ";
+        if (shape.size() == 1)
+          os << "Vector";
+        else if (shape.size() == 2)
+          os << "Matrix";
+        else
+          os << "Tensor";
+        os << "):" << std::endl;
+        printable.print_tensor(os, values, shape, 0, 0, 0);
+        os << std::endl;
       }
-      os << std::endl);
-    os << "[" << device_to_str(storage.device(), storage.device_index())
-       << " " << dtype_name(storage.dtype()) << " storage viewed as ";
+    );
+
+    os << "[device:" << device_to_str(storage.device(), storage.device_index())
+       << ", dtype:" << dtype_name(storage.dtype()) << ", storage viewed as ";
     if (storage.is_scalar())
       os << "scalar";
     else {
@@ -479,6 +483,34 @@ namespace ctranslate2 {
     return os;
   }
 
+  template <typename T>
+  void StorageView::print_tensor(std::ostream& os, const T* data, const std::vector<dim_t>& shape, size_t dim, size_t offset, int indent) const {
+    std::string indentation(indent, ' ');
+
+    os << indentation << "[";
+    bool is_last_dim = (dim == shape.size() - 1);
+    for (dim_t i = 0; i < shape[dim]; ++i) {
+      if (i > 0) {
+        os << ", ";
+        if (!is_last_dim) {
+          os << "\n" << std::string(indent, ' ');
+        }
+      }
+
+      if (i == PRINT_MAX_VALUES / 2 && shape[dim] > PRINT_MAX_VALUES) {
+        os << "...";
+        i = shape[dim] - PRINT_MAX_VALUES / 2 - 1; // Skip to the last part
+      } else {
+        if (is_last_dim) {
+          os << +data[offset + i];
+        } else {
+          print_tensor(os, data, shape, dim + 1, offset + i * shape[dim + 1], indent);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    os << "]";
+  }
+
 #define DECLARE_IMPL(T)                                                 \
   template                                                              \
   StorageView::StorageView(Shape shape, T init, Device device);         \