---
title: "encodeForwardSequence(commandBuffer:sourceMatrices:sourceOffsets:destinationMatrices:destinationOffsets:trainingStates:recurrentInputState:recurrentOutputStates:weights:)"
framework: metalperformanceshaders
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Method
path: "metalperformanceshaders/mpsrnnmatrixtraininglayer/encodeforwardsequence(commandbuffer:sourcematrices:sourceoffsets:destinationmatrices:destinationoffsets:trainingstates:recurrentinputstate:recurrentoutputstates:weights:)"
---

# encodeForwardSequence(commandBuffer:sourceMatrices:sourceOffsets:destinationMatrices:destinationOffsets:trainingStates:recurrentInputState:recurrentOutputStates:weights:)

## Declaration

```swift
func encodeForwardSequence(commandBuffer: any MTLCommandBuffer, sourceMatrices: [MPSMatrix], sourceOffsets: UnsafeMutablePointer<Int>?, destinationMatrices: [MPSMatrix], destinationOffsets: UnsafeMutablePointer<Int>?, trainingStates: NSMutableArray, recurrentInputState: MPSRNNRecurrentMatrixState?, recurrentOutputStates: NSMutableArray?, weights: [MPSMatrix])
```