Multiclass Support Vector Machine exercise

Complete and hand in this completed worksheet (including its outputs and any supporting code outside of the worksheet) with your assignment submission. For more details see the assignments page on the course website.

In this exercise you will:

  • implement a fully-vectorized loss function for the SVM
  • implement the fully-vectorized expression for its analytic gradient
  • check your implementation using numerical gradient
  • use a validation set to tune the learning rate and regularization strength
  • optimize the loss function with SGD
  • visualize the final learned weights

In [1]:
# Run some setup code for this notebook.

import random
import numpy as np
from cs231n.data_utils import load_CIFAR10
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# This is a bit of magic to make matplotlib figures appear inline in the
# notebook rather than in a new window.
%matplotlib inline
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (10.0, 8.0) # set default size of plots
plt.rcParams['image.interpolation'] = 'nearest'
plt.rcParams['image.cmap'] = 'gray'

# Some more magic so that the notebook will reload external python modules;
# see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1907993/autoreload-of-modules-in-ipython
%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

CIFAR-10 Data Loading and Preprocessing


In [2]:
# Load the raw CIFAR-10 data.
cifar10_dir = 'cs231n/datasets/cifar-10-batches-py'
X_train, y_train, X_test, y_test = load_CIFAR10(cifar10_dir)

# As a sanity check, we print out the size of the training and test data.
print 'Training data shape: ', X_train.shape
print 'Training labels shape: ', y_train.shape
print 'Test data shape: ', X_test.shape
print 'Test labels shape: ', y_test.shape


Training data shape:  (50000, 32, 32, 3)
Training labels shape:  (50000,)
Test data shape:  (10000, 32, 32, 3)
Test labels shape:  (10000,)

In [3]:
# Visualize some examples from the dataset.
# We show a few examples of training images from each class.
classes = ['plane', 'car', 'bird', 'cat', 'deer', 'dog', 'frog', 'horse', 'ship', 'truck']
num_classes = len(classes)
samples_per_class = 7
for y, cls in enumerate(classes):
    idxs = np.flatnonzero(y_train == y)
    idxs = np.random.choice(idxs, samples_per_class, replace=False)
    for i, idx in enumerate(idxs):
        plt_idx = i * num_classes + y + 1
        plt.subplot(samples_per_class, num_classes, plt_idx)
        plt.imshow(X_train[idx].astype('uint8'))
        plt.axis('off')
        if i == 0:
            plt.title(cls)
plt.show()



In [4]:
# Split the data into train, val, and test sets. In addition we will
# create a small development set as a subset of the training data;
# we can use this for development so our code runs faster.
num_training = 49000
num_validation = 1000
num_test = 1000
num_dev = 500

# Our validation set will be num_validation points from the original
# training set.
mask = range(num_training, num_training + num_validation)
X_val = X_train[mask]
y_val = y_train[mask]

# Our training set will be the first num_train points from the original
# training set.
mask = range(num_training)
X_train = X_train[mask]
y_train = y_train[mask]

# We will also make a development set, which is a small subset of
# the training set.
mask = np.random.choice(num_training, num_dev, replace=False)
X_dev = X_train[mask]
y_dev = y_train[mask]

# We use the first num_test points of the original test set as our
# test set.
mask = range(num_test)
X_test = X_test[mask]
y_test = y_test[mask]

print 'Train data shape: ', X_train.shape
print 'Train labels shape: ', y_train.shape
print 'Validation data shape: ', X_val.shape
print 'Validation labels shape: ', y_val.shape
print 'Test data shape: ', X_test.shape
print 'Test labels shape: ', y_test.shape


Train data shape:  (49000, 32, 32, 3)
Train labels shape:  (49000,)
Validation data shape:  (1000, 32, 32, 3)
Validation labels shape:  (1000,)
Test data shape:  (1000, 32, 32, 3)
Test labels shape:  (1000,)

In [5]:
# Preprocessing: reshape the image data into rows
X_train = np.reshape(X_train, (X_train.shape[0], -1))
X_val = np.reshape(X_val, (X_val.shape[0], -1))
X_test = np.reshape(X_test, (X_test.shape[0], -1))
X_dev = np.reshape(X_dev, (X_dev.shape[0], -1))

# As a sanity check, print out the shapes of the data
print 'Training data shape: ', X_train.shape
print 'Validation data shape: ', X_val.shape
print 'Test data shape: ', X_test.shape
print 'dev data shape: ', X_dev.shape


Training data shape:  (49000, 3072)
Validation data shape:  (1000, 3072)
Test data shape:  (1000, 3072)
dev data shape:  (500, 3072)

In [6]:
# Preprocessing: subtract the mean image
# first: compute the image mean based on the training data
mean_image = np.mean(X_train, axis=0)
print mean_image[:10] # print a few of the elements
plt.figure(figsize=(4,4))
plt.imshow(mean_image.reshape((32,32,3)).astype('uint8')) # visualize the mean image
plt.show()


[ 130.64189796  135.98173469  132.47391837  130.05569388  135.34804082
  131.75402041  130.96055102  136.14328571  132.47636735  131.48467347]

In [7]:
# second: subtract the mean image from train and test data
X_train -= mean_image
X_val -= mean_image
X_test -= mean_image
X_dev -= mean_image

In [8]:
# third: append the bias dimension of ones (i.e. bias trick) so that our SVM
# only has to worry about optimizing a single weight matrix W.
X_train = np.hstack([X_train, np.ones((X_train.shape[0], 1))])
X_val = np.hstack([X_val, np.ones((X_val.shape[0], 1))])
X_test = np.hstack([X_test, np.ones((X_test.shape[0], 1))])
X_dev = np.hstack([X_dev, np.ones((X_dev.shape[0], 1))])

print X_train.shape, X_val.shape, X_test.shape, X_dev.shape


(49000, 3073) (1000, 3073) (1000, 3073) (500, 3073)

SVM Classifier

Your code for this section will all be written inside cs231n/classifiers/linear_svm.py.

As you can see, we have prefilled the function compute_loss_naive which uses for loops to evaluate the multiclass SVM loss function.


In [9]:
# Evaluate the naive implementation of the loss we provided for you:
from cs231n.classifiers.linear_svm import svm_loss_naive
import time

# generate a random SVM weight matrix of small numbers
W = np.random.randn(3073, 10) * 0.0001 

loss, grad = svm_loss_naive(W, X_dev, y_dev, 0.00001)
print 'loss: %f' % (loss, )


loss: 8.960626

The grad returned from the function above is right now all zero. Derive and implement the gradient for the SVM cost function and implement it inline inside the function svm_loss_naive. You will find it helpful to interleave your new code inside the existing function.

To check that you have correctly implemented the gradient correctly, you can numerically estimate the gradient of the loss function and compare the numeric estimate to the gradient that you computed. We have provided code that does this for you:


In [11]:
# Once you've implemented the gradient, recompute it with the code below
# and gradient check it with the function we provided for you

# Compute the loss and its gradient at W.
loss, grad = svm_loss_naive(W, X_dev, y_dev, 0.0)

# Numerically compute the gradient along several randomly chosen dimensions, and
# compare them with your analytically computed gradient. The numbers should match
# almost exactly along all dimensions.
from cs231n.gradient_check import grad_check_sparse
f = lambda w: svm_loss_naive(w, X_dev, y_dev, 0.0)[0]
grad_numerical = grad_check_sparse(f, W, grad)

# do the gradient check once again with regularization turned on
# you didn't forget the regularization gradient did you?
loss, grad = svm_loss_naive(W, X_dev, y_dev, 1e2)
f = lambda w: svm_loss_naive(w, X_dev, y_dev, 1e2)[0]
grad_numerical = grad_check_sparse(f, W, grad)


numerical: -54.249084 analytic: -54.249084, relative error: 1.112388e-11
numerical: 2.693785 analytic: 2.693785, relative error: 1.915933e-10
numerical: -4.499109 analytic: -4.499109, relative error: 1.517763e-11
numerical: -6.034402 analytic: -6.034402, relative error: 5.632125e-11
numerical: -10.916855 analytic: -10.916855, relative error: 9.291379e-12
numerical: 19.971935 analytic: 19.971935, relative error: 8.569713e-12
numerical: 11.931310 analytic: 11.931310, relative error: 1.541114e-11
numerical: 17.082353 analytic: 17.082353, relative error: 1.118098e-11
numerical: 12.116432 analytic: 12.116432, relative error: 1.282960e-12
numerical: -2.323991 analytic: -2.323991, relative error: 2.357416e-10
numerical: -5.217842 analytic: -5.217842, relative error: 2.443212e-11
numerical: -18.909613 analytic: -18.909613, relative error: 7.508573e-13
numerical: -0.642799 analytic: -0.642799, relative error: 1.305634e-10
numerical: 2.940891 analytic: 2.935801, relative error: 8.661625e-04
numerical: 29.178673 analytic: 29.178673, relative error: 4.854338e-12
numerical: -4.329120 analytic: -4.329120, relative error: 6.204408e-11
numerical: 0.043569 analytic: 0.043569, relative error: 1.120437e-08
numerical: 9.811470 analytic: 9.811470, relative error: 1.741293e-11
numerical: -37.907838 analytic: -37.907838, relative error: 1.851903e-13
numerical: -1.424799 analytic: -1.424799, relative error: 7.660958e-11

Inline Question 1:

It is possible that once in a while a dimension in the gradcheck will not match exactly. What could such a discrepancy be caused by? Is it a reason for concern? What is a simple example in one dimension where a gradient check could fail? Hint: the SVM loss function is not strictly speaking differentiable

Your Answer: fill this in.


In [26]:
# Next implement the function svm_loss_vectorized; for now only compute the loss;
# we will implement the gradient in a moment.
tic = time.time()
loss_naive, grad_naive = svm_loss_naive(W, X_dev, y_dev, 0.00001)
toc = time.time()
print 'Naive loss: %e computed in %fs' % (loss_naive, toc - tic)

from cs231n.classifiers.linear_svm import svm_loss_vectorized
tic = time.time()
loss_vectorized, _ = svm_loss_vectorized(W, X_dev, y_dev, 0.00001)
toc = time.time()
print 'Vectorized loss: %e computed in %fs' % (loss_vectorized, toc - tic)

# The losses should match but your vectorized implementation should be much faster.
print 'difference: %f' % (loss_naive - loss_vectorized)


Naive loss: 8.960626e+00 computed in 0.049068s
(500, 10)
(500,)
Vectorized loss: 8.960626e+00 computed in 0.003956s
difference: -0.000000

In [28]:
# Complete the implementation of svm_loss_vectorized, and compute the gradient
# of the loss function in a vectorized way.

# The naive implementation and the vectorized implementation should match, but
# the vectorized version should still be much faster.
tic = time.time()
_, grad_naive = svm_loss_naive(W, X_dev, y_dev, 0.00001)
toc = time.time()
print 'Naive loss and gradient: computed in %fs' % (toc - tic)

tic = time.time()
_, grad_vectorized = svm_loss_vectorized(W, X_dev, y_dev, 0.00001)
toc = time.time()
print 'Vectorized loss and gradient: computed in %fs' % (toc - tic)

# The loss is a single number, so it is easy to compare the values computed
# by the two implementations. The gradient on the other hand is a matrix, so
# we use the Frobenius norm to compare them.
difference = np.linalg.norm(grad_naive - grad_vectorized, ord='fro')
print 'difference: %f' % difference


Naive loss and gradient: computed in 0.049656s
(500, 10)
(500,)
Vectorized loss and gradient: computed in 0.008794s
difference: 0.000000

Stochastic Gradient Descent

We now have vectorized and efficient expressions for the loss, the gradient and our gradient matches the numerical gradient. We are therefore ready to do SGD to minimize the loss.


In [35]:
# In the file linear_classifier.py, implement SGD in the function
# LinearClassifier.train() and then run it with the code below.
from cs231n.classifiers import LinearSVM
svm = LinearSVM()
tic = time.time()
loss_hist = svm.train(X_train, y_train, learning_rate=1e-7, reg=5e4,
                      num_iters=1500, verbose=True)
toc = time.time()
print 'That took %fs' % (toc - tic)


num_iters 1500
num_train 49000
batch_num 245
iteration 0 / 1500: loss 789.107951
iteration 100 / 1500: loss 289.253735
iteration 200 / 1500: loss 108.604437
iteration 300 / 1500: loss 42.497141
iteration 400 / 1500: loss 19.143312
iteration 500 / 1500: loss 10.584484
iteration 600 / 1500: loss 7.005621
iteration 700 / 1500: loss 6.417464
iteration 800 / 1500: loss 5.263562
iteration 900 / 1500: loss 5.722251
iteration 1000 / 1500: loss 5.211871
iteration 1100 / 1500: loss 5.043085
iteration 1200 / 1500: loss 5.455843
iteration 1300 / 1500: loss 5.673302
iteration 1400 / 1500: loss 5.051001
That took 4.909895s

In [36]:
# A useful debugging strategy is to plot the loss as a function of
# iteration number:
plt.plot(loss_hist)
plt.xlabel('Iteration number')
plt.ylabel('Loss value')
plt.show()



In [38]:
# Write the LinearSVM.predict function and evaluate the performance on both the
# training and validation set
y_train_pred = svm.predict(X_train)
print 'training accuracy: %f' % (np.mean(y_train == y_train_pred), )
y_val_pred = svm.predict(X_val)
print 'validation accuracy: %f' % (np.mean(y_val == y_val_pred), )


training accuracy: 0.365816
validation accuracy: 0.376000

In [50]:
# Use the validation set to tune hyperparameters (regularization strength and
# learning rate). You should experiment with different ranges for the learning
# rates and regularization strengths; if you are careful you should be able to
# get a classification accuracy of about 0.4 on the validation set.
learning_rates = [5e-8, 1e-7, 5e-6]
regularization_strengths = [5e4, 1e5]

# results is dictionary mapping tuples of the form
# (learning_rate, regularization_strength) to tuples of the form
# (training_accuracy, validation_accuracy). The accuracy is simply the fraction
# of data points that are correctly classified.
results = {}
best_val = -1   # The highest validation accuracy that we have seen so far.
best_svm = None # The LinearSVM object that achieved the highest validation rate.

################################################################################
# TODO:                                                                        #
# Write code that chooses the best hyperparameters by tuning on the validation #
# set. For each combination of hyperparameters, train a linear SVM on the      #
# training set, compute its accuracy on the training and validation sets, and  #
# store these numbers in the results dictionary. In addition, store the best   #
# validation accuracy in best_val and the LinearSVM object that achieves this  #
# accuracy in best_svm.                                                        #
#                                                                              #
# Hint: You should use a small value for num_iters as you develop your         #
# validation code so that the SVMs don't take much time to train; once you are #
# confident that your validation code works, you should rerun the validation   #
# code with a larger value for num_iters.                                      #
################################################################################
for lr in learning_rates:
    for rs in regularization_strengths:
        svm = LinearSVM()
        svm.train(X_train, y_train, learning_rate=lr, reg=rs,
                      num_iters=1500, verbose=True)
    
        y_train_pred = svm.predict(X_train)
        pred_train = np.mean(y_train == y_train_pred)
        y_val_pred = svm.predict(X_val)
        pred_val = np.mean(y_train == y_train_pred)
        results[(lr, rs)] = (pred_train, pred_val)
        if pred_val > best_val:
            best_val = pred_val
            best_svm = svm
        print 'done'
        

################################################################################
#                              END OF YOUR CODE                                #
################################################################################
    
# Print out results.
for lr, reg in sorted(results):
    train_accuracy, val_accuracy = results[(lr, reg)]
    print 'lr %e reg %e train accuracy: %f val accuracy: %f' % (
                lr, reg, train_accuracy, val_accuracy)
    
print 'best validation accuracy achieved during cross-validation: %f' % best_val


num_iters 1500
num_train 49000
batch_num 245
iteration 0 / 1500: loss 793.655246
iteration 100 / 1500: loss 474.602637
iteration 200 / 1500: loss 287.937172
iteration 300 / 1500: loss 176.479420
iteration 400 / 1500: loss 108.176003
iteration 500 / 1500: loss 67.266922
iteration 600 / 1500: loss 42.284591
iteration 700 / 1500: loss 27.998415
iteration 800 / 1500: loss 19.083810
iteration 900 / 1500: loss 13.718870
iteration 1000 / 1500: loss 10.001897
iteration 1100 / 1500: loss 8.346268
iteration 1200 / 1500: loss 6.546405
iteration 1300 / 1500: loss 6.058257
iteration 1400 / 1500: loss 5.637518
done
num_iters 1500
num_train 49000
batch_num 245
iteration 0 / 1500: loss 1573.070056
iteration 100 / 1500: loss 575.037779
iteration 200 / 1500: loss 213.659365
iteration 300 / 1500: loss 81.773884
iteration 400 / 1500: loss 33.669069
iteration 500 / 1500: loss 15.276920
iteration 600 / 1500: loss 9.891807
iteration 700 / 1500: loss 6.848720
iteration 800 / 1500: loss 6.098743
iteration 900 / 1500: loss 5.326725
iteration 1000 / 1500: loss 6.145332
iteration 1100 / 1500: loss 6.063976
iteration 1200 / 1500: loss 5.966663
iteration 1300 / 1500: loss 5.973297
iteration 1400 / 1500: loss 5.212366
done
num_iters 1500
num_train 49000
batch_num 245
iteration 0 / 1500: loss 792.655170
iteration 100 / 1500: loss 288.499478
iteration 200 / 1500: loss 108.703480
iteration 300 / 1500: loss 42.904605
iteration 400 / 1500: loss 18.961428
iteration 500 / 1500: loss 10.740963
iteration 600 / 1500: loss 7.191919
iteration 700 / 1500: loss 6.071195
iteration 800 / 1500: loss 5.683445
iteration 900 / 1500: loss 5.376928
iteration 1000 / 1500: loss 5.208564
iteration 1100 / 1500: loss 5.703487
iteration 1200 / 1500: loss 5.452661
iteration 1300 / 1500: loss 5.229861
iteration 1400 / 1500: loss 5.267687
done
num_iters 1500
num_train 49000
batch_num 245
iteration 0 / 1500: loss 1560.628225
iteration 100 / 1500: loss 211.138138
iteration 200 / 1500: loss 32.589800
iteration 300 / 1500: loss 9.453308
iteration 400 / 1500: loss 6.450943
iteration 500 / 1500: loss 6.251261
iteration 600 / 1500: loss 6.357025
iteration 700 / 1500: loss 5.439427
iteration 800 / 1500: loss 5.280485
iteration 900 / 1500: loss 5.167043
iteration 1000 / 1500: loss 5.852010
iteration 1100 / 1500: loss 5.633888
iteration 1200 / 1500: loss 5.323491
iteration 1300 / 1500: loss 5.415375
iteration 1400 / 1500: loss 5.386292
done
num_iters 1500
num_train 49000
batch_num 245
iteration 0 / 1500: loss 796.732992
iteration 100 / 1500: loss 24.696900
iteration 200 / 1500: loss 27.752008
iteration 300 / 1500: loss 19.881289
iteration 400 / 1500: loss 25.884821
iteration 500 / 1500: loss 21.442132
iteration 600 / 1500: loss 16.896159
iteration 700 / 1500: loss 24.474962
iteration 800 / 1500: loss 34.822451
iteration 900 / 1500: loss 25.616831
iteration 1000 / 1500: loss 29.828477
iteration 1100 / 1500: loss 19.093976
iteration 1200 / 1500: loss 24.689452
iteration 1300 / 1500: loss 26.279861
iteration 1400 / 1500: loss 16.735457
done
num_iters 1500
num_train 49000
batch_num 245
iteration 0 / 1500: loss 1554.612201
iteration 100 / 1500: loss 25.665380
iteration 200 / 1500: loss 30.269402
iteration 300 / 1500: loss 30.366503
iteration 400 / 1500: loss 34.519373
iteration 500 / 1500: loss 34.842590
iteration 600 / 1500: loss 42.121637
iteration 700 / 1500: loss 22.829812
iteration 800 / 1500: loss 32.410637
iteration 900 / 1500: loss 30.050129
iteration 1000 / 1500: loss 36.024145
iteration 1100 / 1500: loss 28.417750
iteration 1200 / 1500: loss 28.979573
iteration 1300 / 1500: loss 34.071882
iteration 1400 / 1500: loss 22.768096
done
lr 5.000000e-08 reg 5.000000e+04 train accuracy: 0.372224 val accuracy: 0.372224
lr 5.000000e-08 reg 1.000000e+05 train accuracy: 0.356429 val accuracy: 0.356429
lr 1.000000e-07 reg 5.000000e+04 train accuracy: 0.371918 val accuracy: 0.371918
lr 1.000000e-07 reg 1.000000e+05 train accuracy: 0.349857 val accuracy: 0.349857
lr 5.000000e-06 reg 5.000000e+04 train accuracy: 0.208592 val accuracy: 0.208592
lr 5.000000e-06 reg 1.000000e+05 train accuracy: 0.207755 val accuracy: 0.207755
best validation accuracy achieved during cross-validation: 0.372224

In [47]:
# Visualize the cross-validation results
import math
x_scatter = [math.log10(x[0]) for x in results]
y_scatter = [math.log10(x[1]) for x in results]

# plot training accuracy
marker_size = 100
colors = [results[x][0] for x in results]
plt.subplot(2, 1, 1)
plt.scatter(x_scatter, y_scatter, marker_size, c=colors)
plt.colorbar()
plt.xlabel('log learning rate')
plt.ylabel('log regularization strength')
plt.title('CIFAR-10 training accuracy')

# plot validation accuracy
colors = [results[x][1] for x in results] # default size of markers is 20
plt.subplot(2, 1, 2)
plt.scatter(x_scatter, y_scatter, marker_size, c=colors)
plt.colorbar()
plt.xlabel('log learning rate')
plt.ylabel('log regularization strength')
plt.title('CIFAR-10 validation accuracy')
plt.show()



In [48]:
# Evaluate the best svm on test set
y_test_pred = best_svm.predict(X_test)
test_accuracy = np.mean(y_test == y_test_pred)
print 'linear SVM on raw pixels final test set accuracy: %f' % test_accuracy


linear SVM on raw pixels final test set accuracy: 0.363000

In [49]:
# Visualize the learned weights for each class.
# Depending on your choice of learning rate and regularization strength, these may
# or may not be nice to look at.
w = best_svm.W[:-1,:] # strip out the bias
w = w.reshape(32, 32, 3, 10)
w_min, w_max = np.min(w), np.max(w)
classes = ['plane', 'car', 'bird', 'cat', 'deer', 'dog', 'frog', 'horse', 'ship', 'truck']
for i in xrange(10):
  plt.subplot(2, 5, i + 1)
    
  # Rescale the weights to be between 0 and 255
  wimg = 255.0 * (w[:, :, :, i].squeeze() - w_min) / (w_max - w_min)
  plt.imshow(wimg.astype('uint8'))
  plt.axis('off')
  plt.title(classes[i])


Inline question 2:

Describe what your visualized SVM weights look like, and offer a brief explanation for why they look they way that they do.

Your answer: fill this in