# Assign {#openvino_docs_ops_infrastructure_Assign_3}

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**Versioned name**: *Assign-3*

**Category**: *Infrastructure*

**Short description**: *Assign* sets an input value to the ``variable_id`` variable.

**Detailed description**:

*Assign* operation sets an input value to the ``variable_id`` variable. This value will be returned by *ReadValue* operation on next infer if variable was not reset.
The operation checks that the type and shape of the input are the same as
declared in ``variable_id`` and returns an error otherwise.

**Attributes**:

* *variable_id*

  * **Description**: identificator of the variable to be updated
  * **Range of values**: any non-empty string
  * **Type**: string
  * **Required**: *yes*

**Inputs**

* **1**: ``new_value`` - input tensor of any supported type. **Required.**

**Outputs**

* **1**: tensor with the same shape and type as ``new_value``.

**Example**

.. code-block:: console
   
   <layer ... type="Assign" ...>
       <data variable_id="lstm_state_1"/>
       <input>
           <port id="0">
               <dim>1</dim>
               <dim>3</dim>
               <dim>224</dim>
               <dim>224</dim>
           </port>
       </input>
   </layer>

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