Deep Learning

Assignment 2

Previously in 1_notmnist.ipynb, we created a pickle with formatted datasets for training, development and testing on the notMNIST dataset.

The goal of this assignment is to progressively train deeper and more accurate models using TensorFlow.


In [1]:
# These are all the modules we'll be using later. Make sure you can import them
# before proceeding further.
from __future__ import print_function
import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf
from six.moves import cPickle as pickle
from six.moves import range

First reload the data we generated in 1_notmnist.ipynb.


In [2]:
pickle_file = 'notMNIST.pickle'

with open(pickle_file, 'rb') as f:
  save = pickle.load(f)
  train_dataset = save['train_dataset']
  train_labels = save['train_labels']
  valid_dataset = save['valid_dataset']
  valid_labels = save['valid_labels']
  test_dataset = save['test_dataset']
  test_labels = save['test_labels']
  del save  # hint to help gc free up memory
  print('Training set', train_dataset.shape, train_labels.shape)
  print('Validation set', valid_dataset.shape, valid_labels.shape)
  print('Test set', test_dataset.shape, test_labels.shape)


Training set (200000, 28, 28) (200000,)
Validation set (10000, 28, 28) (10000,)
Test set (10000, 28, 28) (10000,)

Reformat into a shape that's more adapted to the models we're going to train:

  • data as a flat matrix,
  • labels as float 1-hot encodings.

In [3]:
image_size = 28
num_labels = 10

def reformat(dataset, labels):
  dataset = dataset.reshape((-1, image_size * image_size)).astype(np.float32)
  # Map 0 to [1.0, 0.0, 0.0 ...], 1 to [0.0, 1.0, 0.0 ...]
  labels = (np.arange(num_labels) == labels[:,None]).astype(np.float32)
  return dataset, labels
train_dataset, train_labels = reformat(train_dataset, train_labels)
valid_dataset, valid_labels = reformat(valid_dataset, valid_labels)
test_dataset, test_labels = reformat(test_dataset, test_labels)
print('Training set', train_dataset.shape, train_labels.shape)
print('Validation set', valid_dataset.shape, valid_labels.shape)
print('Test set', test_dataset.shape, test_labels.shape)


Training set (200000, 784) (200000, 10)
Validation set (10000, 784) (10000, 10)
Test set (10000, 784) (10000, 10)

We're first going to train a multinomial logistic regression using simple gradient descent.

TensorFlow works like this:

  • First you describe the computation that you want to see performed: what the inputs, the variables, and the operations look like. These get created as nodes over a computation graph. This description is all contained within the block below:

    with graph.as_default():
        ...
  • Then you can run the operations on this graph as many times as you want by calling session.run(), providing it outputs to fetch from the graph that get returned. This runtime operation is all contained in the block below:

    with tf.Session(graph=graph) as session:
        ...

Let's load all the data into TensorFlow and build the computation graph corresponding to our training:


In [4]:
# With gradient descent training, even this much data is prohibitive.
# Subset the training data for faster turnaround.
train_subset = 10000

graph = tf.Graph()
with graph.as_default():

  # Input data.
  # Load the training, validation and test data into constants that are
  # attached to the graph.
  tf_train_dataset = tf.constant(train_dataset[:train_subset, :])
  tf_train_labels = tf.constant(train_labels[:train_subset])
  tf_valid_dataset = tf.constant(valid_dataset)
  tf_test_dataset = tf.constant(test_dataset)
  
  # Variables.
  # These are the parameters that we are going to be training. The weight
  # matrix will be initialized using random valued following a (truncated)
  # normal distribution. The biases get initialized to zero.
  weights = tf.Variable(
    tf.truncated_normal([image_size * image_size, num_labels]))
  biases = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_labels]))
  
  # Training computation.
  # We multiply the inputs with the weight matrix, and add biases. We compute
  # the softmax and cross-entropy (it's one operation in TensorFlow, because
  # it's very common, and it can be optimized). We take the average of this
  # cross-entropy across all training examples: that's our loss.
  logits = tf.matmul(tf_train_dataset, weights) + biases
  loss = tf.reduce_mean(
    tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits, tf_train_labels))
  
  # Optimizer.
  # We are going to find the minimum of this loss using gradient descent.
  optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.5).minimize(loss)
  
  # Predictions for the training, validation, and test data.
  # These are not part of training, but merely here so that we can report
  # accuracy figures as we train.
  train_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(logits)
  valid_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(
    tf.matmul(tf_valid_dataset, weights) + biases)
  test_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(tf_test_dataset, weights) + biases)

Let's run this computation and iterate:


In [5]:
num_steps = 801

def accuracy(predictions, labels):
  return (100.0 * np.sum(np.argmax(predictions, 1) == np.argmax(labels, 1))
          / predictions.shape[0])

with tf.Session(graph=graph) as session:
  # This is a one-time operation which ensures the parameters get initialized as
  # we described in the graph: random weights for the matrix, zeros for the
  # biases. 
  tf.initialize_all_variables().run()
  print('Initialized')
  for step in range(num_steps):
    # Run the computations. We tell .run() that we want to run the optimizer,
    # and get the loss value and the training predictions returned as numpy
    # arrays.
    _, l, predictions = session.run([optimizer, loss, train_prediction])
    if (step % 100 == 0):
      print('Loss at step %d: %f' % (step, l))
      print('Training accuracy: %.1f%%' % accuracy(
        predictions, train_labels[:train_subset, :]))
      # Calling .eval() on valid_prediction is basically like calling run(), but
      # just to get that one numpy array. Note that it recomputes all its graph
      # dependencies.
      print('Validation accuracy: %.1f%%' % accuracy(
        valid_prediction.eval(), valid_labels))
  print('Test accuracy: %.1f%%' % accuracy(test_prediction.eval(), test_labels))


Initialized
Loss at step 0: 19.551134
Training accuracy: 9.0%
Validation accuracy: 9.3%
Loss at step 100: 2.301991
Training accuracy: 71.6%
Validation accuracy: 71.0%
Loss at step 200: 1.835754
Training accuracy: 74.4%
Validation accuracy: 73.1%
Loss at step 300: 1.582252
Training accuracy: 76.0%
Validation accuracy: 74.3%
Loss at step 400: 1.416512
Training accuracy: 77.0%
Validation accuracy: 74.6%
Loss at step 500: 1.296862
Training accuracy: 77.9%
Validation accuracy: 74.9%
Loss at step 600: 1.204888
Training accuracy: 78.7%
Validation accuracy: 75.0%
Loss at step 700: 1.131040
Training accuracy: 79.2%
Validation accuracy: 75.1%
Loss at step 800: 1.069750
Training accuracy: 79.6%
Validation accuracy: 75.3%
Test accuracy: 82.6%

Let's now switch to stochastic gradient descent training instead, which is much faster.

The graph will be similar, except that instead of holding all the training data into a constant node, we create a Placeholder node which will be fed actual data at every call of sesion.run().


In [6]:
batch_size = 128

graph = tf.Graph()
with graph.as_default():

  # Input data. For the training data, we use a placeholder that will be fed
  # at run time with a training minibatch.
  tf_train_dataset = tf.placeholder(tf.float32,
                                    shape=(batch_size, image_size * image_size))
  tf_train_labels = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(batch_size, num_labels))
  tf_valid_dataset = tf.constant(valid_dataset)
  tf_test_dataset = tf.constant(test_dataset)
  
  # Variables.
  weights = tf.Variable(
    tf.truncated_normal([image_size * image_size, num_labels]))
  biases = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_labels]))
  
  # Training computation.
  logits = tf.matmul(tf_train_dataset, weights) + biases
  loss = tf.reduce_mean(
    tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits, tf_train_labels))
  
  # Optimizer.
  optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.5).minimize(loss)
  
  # Predictions for the training, validation, and test data.
  train_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(logits)
  valid_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(
    tf.matmul(tf_valid_dataset, weights) + biases)
  test_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(tf_test_dataset, weights) + biases)

Let's run it:


In [7]:
num_steps = 3001

with tf.Session(graph=graph) as session:
  tf.initialize_all_variables().run()
  print("Initialized")
  for step in range(num_steps):
    # Pick an offset within the training data, which has been randomized.
    # Note: we could use better randomization across epochs.
    offset = (step * batch_size) % (train_labels.shape[0] - batch_size)
    # Generate a minibatch.
    batch_data = train_dataset[offset:(offset + batch_size), :]
    batch_labels = train_labels[offset:(offset + batch_size), :]
    # Prepare a dictionary telling the session where to feed the minibatch.
    # The key of the dictionary is the placeholder node of the graph to be fed,
    # and the value is the numpy array to feed to it.
    feed_dict = {tf_train_dataset : batch_data, tf_train_labels : batch_labels}
    _, l, predictions = session.run(
      [optimizer, loss, train_prediction], feed_dict=feed_dict)
    if (step % 500 == 0):
      print("Minibatch loss at step %d: %f" % (step, l))
      print("Minibatch accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(predictions, batch_labels))
      print("Validation accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(
        valid_prediction.eval(), valid_labels))
  print("Test accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(test_prediction.eval(), test_labels))


Initialized
Minibatch loss at step 0: 14.653185
Minibatch accuracy: 16.4%
Validation accuracy: 18.8%
Minibatch loss at step 500: 1.124061
Minibatch accuracy: 81.2%
Validation accuracy: 75.7%
Minibatch loss at step 1000: 1.367925
Minibatch accuracy: 77.3%
Validation accuracy: 76.6%
Minibatch loss at step 1500: 0.738354
Minibatch accuracy: 82.8%
Validation accuracy: 77.0%
Minibatch loss at step 2000: 0.881469
Minibatch accuracy: 82.0%
Validation accuracy: 77.2%
Minibatch loss at step 2500: 0.984946
Minibatch accuracy: 77.3%
Validation accuracy: 78.4%
Minibatch loss at step 3000: 0.873618
Minibatch accuracy: 76.6%
Validation accuracy: 78.5%
Test accuracy: 86.1%

Problem

Turn the logistic regression example with SGD into a 1-hidden layer neural network with rectified linear units (nn.relu()) and 1024 hidden nodes. This model should improve your validation / test accuracy.



In [8]:
batch_size = 128
num_hidden_nodes = 1024

graph = tf.Graph()
with graph.as_default():

  # Input data. For the training data, we use a placeholder that will be fed
  # at run time with a training minibatch.
  tf_train_dataset = tf.placeholder(tf.float32,
                                    shape=(batch_size, image_size * image_size))
  tf_train_labels = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(batch_size, num_labels))
  tf_valid_dataset = tf.constant(valid_dataset)
  tf_test_dataset = tf.constant(test_dataset)
  
  # Variables.
  weights1 = tf.Variable(
    tf.truncated_normal([image_size * image_size, num_hidden_nodes]))
  biases1 = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_hidden_nodes]))
  weights2 = tf.Variable(
    tf.truncated_normal([num_hidden_nodes, num_labels]))
  biases2 = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_labels]))
  
  # Training computation.
  lay1_train = tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(tf_train_dataset, weights1) + biases1)
  logits = tf.matmul(lay1_train, weights2) + biases2
  loss = tf.reduce_mean(
    tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(logits, tf_train_labels))
  
  # Optimizer.
  optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.5).minimize(loss)
  
  # Predictions for the training, validation, and test data.
  train_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(logits)
  lay1_valid = tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(tf_valid_dataset, weights1) + biases1)
  valid_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(lay1_valid, weights2) + biases2)
  lay1_test = tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(tf_test_dataset, weights1) + biases1)
  test_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(lay1_test, weights2) + biases2)

In [9]:
num_steps = 3001

with tf.Session(graph=graph) as session:
  tf.initialize_all_variables().run()
  print("Initialized")
  for step in range(num_steps):
    # Pick an offset within the training data, which has been randomized.
    # Note: we could use better randomization across epochs.
    offset = (step * batch_size) % (train_labels.shape[0] - batch_size)
    # Generate a minibatch.
    batch_data = train_dataset[offset:(offset + batch_size), :]
    batch_labels = train_labels[offset:(offset + batch_size), :]
    # Prepare a dictionary telling the session where to feed the minibatch.
    # The key of the dictionary is the placeholder node of the graph to be fed,
    # and the value is the numpy array to feed to it.
    feed_dict = {tf_train_dataset : batch_data, tf_train_labels : batch_labels}
    _, l, predictions = session.run(
      [optimizer, loss, train_prediction], feed_dict=feed_dict)
    if (step % 500 == 0):
      print("Minibatch loss at step %d: %f" % (step, l))
      print("Minibatch accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(predictions, batch_labels))
      print("Validation accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(
        valid_prediction.eval(), valid_labels))
  print("Test accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(test_prediction.eval(), test_labels))


Initialized
Minibatch loss at step 0: 463.411591
Minibatch accuracy: 14.1%
Validation accuracy: 33.0%
Minibatch loss at step 500: 15.287224
Minibatch accuracy: 85.9%
Validation accuracy: 79.1%
Minibatch loss at step 1000: 12.436000
Minibatch accuracy: 80.5%
Validation accuracy: 81.2%
Minibatch loss at step 1500: 6.899210
Minibatch accuracy: 88.3%
Validation accuracy: 80.7%
Minibatch loss at step 2000: 1.785603
Minibatch accuracy: 86.7%
Validation accuracy: 81.5%
Minibatch loss at step 2500: 3.741745
Minibatch accuracy: 85.2%
Validation accuracy: 80.8%
Minibatch loss at step 3000: 2.064012
Minibatch accuracy: 83.6%
Validation accuracy: 82.2%
Test accuracy: 89.4%