13. Stochastic Gradient Descent
Here's my solution to the last quiz.
class Sigmoid(Node):
"""
Represents a node that performs the sigmoid activation function.
"""
def __init__(self, node):
# The base class constructor.
Node.__init__(self, [node])
def _sigmoid(self, x):
"""
This method is separate from `forward` because it
will be used with `backward` as well.
`x`: A numpy array-like object.
"""
return 1. / (1. + np.exp(-x))
def forward(self):
"""
Perform the sigmoid function and set the value.
"""
input_value = self.inbound_nodes[0].value
self.value = self._sigmoid(input_value)
def backward(self):
"""
Calculates the gradient using the derivative of
the sigmoid function.
"""
# Initialize the gradients to 0.
self.gradients = {n: np.zeros_like(n.value) for n in self.inbound_nodes}
# Sum the derivative with respect to the input over all the outputs.
for n in self.outbound_nodes:
grad_cost = n.gradients[self]
sigmoid = self.value
self.gradients[self.inbound_nodes[0]] += sigmoid * (1 - sigmoid) * grad_cost
The backward method sums the derivative (it's a normal derivative when there's only one variable) with respect to the only input over all the output nodes. The last line implements the derivative, \frac {\partial sigmoid}{\partial x} \frac {\partial cost}{\partial sigmoid}.
Replacing the math expression with code:
\frac {\partial sigmoid}{\partial x} is sigmoid * (1 - sigmoid) and \frac {\partial cost}{\partial sigmoid} is grad_cost.
Now that you have the gradient of the cost with respect to each input (the return value from forward_and_backward()) your network can start learning! To do so, you will implement a technique called Stochastic Gradient Descent.
Stochastic Gradient Descent
Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is a version of Gradient Descent where on each forward pass a batch of data is randomly sampled from total dataset. Remember when we talked about the batch size earlier? That's the size of the batch. Ideally, the entire dataset would be fed into the neural network on each forward pass, but in practice, it's not practical due to memory constraints. SGD is an approximation of Gradient Descent, the more batches processed by the neural network, the better the approximation.
A naïve implementation of SGD involves:
- Randomly sample a batch of data from the total dataset.
- Running the network forward and backward to calculate the gradient (with data from (1)).
- Apply the gradient descent update.
- Repeat steps 1-3 until convergence or the loop is stopped by another mechanism (i.e. the number of epochs).
If all goes well, the network's loss should generally trend downwards, indicating more useful weights and biases over time.
So far, MiniFlow can already do step 2. In the following quiz, steps 1 and 4 are already implemented. It will be your job to implement step 3.
As a reminder, here's the gradient descent update equation, where \alpha represents the learning rate:
x = x - \alpha * \frac {\partial cost}{\partial x}
We're also going to use an actual dataset for this quiz, the Boston Housing dataset. After training the network will be able to predict prices of Boston housing!
Boston's Back Bay
By Robbie Shade (Flickr: Boston's Back Bay) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Each example in the dataset is a description of a house in the Boston suburbs, the description consists of 13 numerical values (features). Each example also has an associated price. With SGD, we're going to minimize the MSE between the actual price and the price predicted by the neural network based on the features.
If all goes well the output should look something like this:
When the batch size is 11:
Total number of examples = 506
Epoch: 1, Loss: 140.256
Epoch: 2, Loss: 34.570
Epoch: 3, Loss: 27.501
Epoch: 4, Loss: 25.343
Epoch: 5, Loss: 20.421
Epoch: 6, Loss: 17.600
Epoch: 7, Loss: 18.176
Epoch: 8, Loss: 16.812
Epoch: 9, Loss: 15.531
Epoch: 10, Loss: 16.429
When the batch size is the same as the total number of examples (batch is the whole dataset):
Total number of examples = 506
Epoch: 1, Loss: 646.134
Epoch: 2, Loss: 587.867
Epoch: 3, Loss: 510.707
Epoch: 4, Loss: 446.558
Epoch: 5, Loss: 407.695
Epoch: 6, Loss: 324.440
Epoch: 7, Loss: 295.542
Epoch: 8, Loss: 251.599
Epoch: 9, Loss: 219.888
Epoch: 10, Loss: 216.155
Notice the cost or loss trending towards 0.
Instructions
- Open
nn.py. See how the network runs with this new architecture. - Find the
sgd_updatemethod inminiflow.pyand implement SGD. - Test your network! Does your loss decrease with more epochs?
Note! The virtual machines on which we run your code have time limits. If your network takes more than 10 seconds to run, you will get a timeout error. Keep this in mind as you play with the number of epochs.
Question:
Start Quiz:
"""
Check out the new network architecture and dataset!
Notice that the weights and biases are
generated randomly.
No need to change anything, but feel free to tweak
to test your network, play around with the epochs, batch size, etc!
"""
import numpy as np
from sklearn.datasets import load_boston
from sklearn.utils import shuffle, resample
from miniflow import *
# Load data
data = load_boston()
X_ = data['data']
y_ = data['target']
# Normalize data
X_ = (X_ - np.mean(X_, axis=0)) / np.std(X_, axis=0)
n_features = X_.shape[1]
n_hidden = 10
W1_ = np.random.randn(n_features, n_hidden)
b1_ = np.zeros(n_hidden)
W2_ = np.random.randn(n_hidden, 1)
b2_ = np.zeros(1)
# Neural network
X, y = Input(), Input()
W1, b1 = Input(), Input()
W2, b2 = Input(), Input()
l1 = Linear(X, W1, b1)
s1 = Sigmoid(l1)
l2 = Linear(s1, W2, b2)
cost = MSE(y, l2)
feed_dict = {
X: X_,
y: y_,
W1: W1_,
b1: b1_,
W2: W2_,
b2: b2_
}
epochs = 10
# Total number of examples
m = X_.shape[0]
batch_size = 11
steps_per_epoch = m // batch_size
graph = topological_sort(feed_dict)
trainables = [W1, b1, W2, b2]
print("Total number of examples = {}".format(m))
# Step 4
for i in range(epochs):
loss = 0
for j in range(steps_per_epoch):
# Step 1
# Randomly sample a batch of examples
X_batch, y_batch = resample(X_, y_, n_samples=batch_size)
# Reset value of X and y Inputs
X.value = X_batch
y.value = y_batch
# Step 2
forward_and_backward(graph)
# Step 3
sgd_update(trainables)
loss += graph[-1].value
print("Epoch: {}, Loss: {:.3f}".format(i+1, loss/steps_per_epoch))
import numpy as np
class Node(object):
"""
Base class for nodes in the network.
Arguments:
`inbound_nodes`: A list of nodes with edges into this node.
"""
def __init__(self, inbound_nodes=[]):
"""
Node's constructor (runs when the object is instantiated). Sets
properties that all nodes need.
"""
# A list of nodes with edges into this node.
self.inbound_nodes = inbound_nodes
# The eventual value of this node. Set by running
# the forward() method.
self.value = None
# A list of nodes that this node outputs to.
self.outbound_nodes = []
# New property! Keys are the inputs to this node and
# their values are the partials of this node with
# respect to that input.
self.gradients = {}
# Sets this node as an outbound node for all of
# this node's inputs.
for node in inbound_nodes:
node.outbound_nodes.append(self)
def forward(self):
"""
Every node that uses this class as a base class will
need to define its own `forward` method.
"""
raise NotImplementedError
def backward(self):
"""
Every node that uses this class as a base class will
need to define its own `backward` method.
"""
raise NotImplementedError
class Input(Node):
"""
A generic input into the network.
"""
def __init__(self):
# The base class constructor has to run to set all
# the properties here.
#
# The most important property on an Input is value.
# self.value is set during `topological_sort` later.
Node.__init__(self)
def forward(self):
# Do nothing because nothing is calculated.
pass
def backward(self):
# An Input node has no inputs so the gradient (derivative)
# is zero.
# The key, `self`, is reference to this object.
self.gradients = {self: 0}
# Weights and bias may be inputs, so you need to sum
# the gradient from output gradients.
for n in self.outbound_nodes:
self.gradients[self] += n.gradients[self]
class Linear(Node):
"""
Represents a node that performs a linear transform.
"""
def __init__(self, X, W, b):
# The base class (Node) constructor. Weights and bias
# are treated like inbound nodes.
Node.__init__(self, [X, W, b])
def forward(self):
"""
Performs the math behind a linear transform.
"""
X = self.inbound_nodes[0].value
W = self.inbound_nodes[1].value
b = self.inbound_nodes[2].value
self.value = np.dot(X, W) + b
def backward(self):
"""
Calculates the gradient based on the output values.
"""
# Initialize a partial for each of the inbound_nodes.
self.gradients = {n: np.zeros_like(n.value) for n in self.inbound_nodes}
# Cycle through the outputs. The gradient will change depending
# on each output, so the gradients are summed over all outputs.
for n in self.outbound_nodes:
# Get the partial of the cost with respect to this node.
grad_cost = n.gradients[self]
# Set the partial of the loss with respect to this node's inputs.
self.gradients[self.inbound_nodes[0]] += np.dot(grad_cost, self.inbound_nodes[1].value.T)
# Set the partial of the loss with respect to this node's weights.
self.gradients[self.inbound_nodes[1]] += np.dot(self.inbound_nodes[0].value.T, grad_cost)
# Set the partial of the loss with respect to this node's bias.
self.gradients[self.inbound_nodes[2]] += np.sum(grad_cost, axis=0, keepdims=False)
class Sigmoid(Node):
"""
Represents a node that performs the sigmoid activation function.
"""
def __init__(self, node):
# The base class constructor.
Node.__init__(self, [node])
def _sigmoid(self, x):
"""
This method is separate from `forward` because it
will be used with `backward` as well.
`x`: A numpy array-like object.
"""
return 1. / (1. + np.exp(-x))
def forward(self):
"""
Perform the sigmoid function and set the value.
"""
input_value = self.inbound_nodes[0].value
self.value = self._sigmoid(input_value)
def backward(self):
"""
Calculates the gradient using the derivative of
the sigmoid function.
"""
# Initialize the gradients to 0.
self.gradients = {n: np.zeros_like(n.value) for n in self.inbound_nodes}
# Sum the partial with respect to the input over all the outputs.
for n in self.outbound_nodes:
grad_cost = n.gradients[self]
sigmoid = self.value
self.gradients[self.inbound_nodes[0]] += sigmoid * (1 - sigmoid) * grad_cost
class MSE(Node):
def __init__(self, y, a):
"""
The mean squared error cost function.
Should be used as the last node for a network.
"""
# Call the base class' constructor.
Node.__init__(self, [y, a])
def forward(self):
"""
Calculates the mean squared error.
"""
# NOTE: We reshape these to avoid possible matrix/vector broadcast
# errors.
#
# For example, if we subtract an array of shape (3,) from an array of shape
# (3,1) we get an array of shape(3,3) as the result when we want
# an array of shape (3,1) instead.
#
# Making both arrays (3,1) insures the result is (3,1) and does
# an elementwise subtraction as expected.
y = self.inbound_nodes[0].value.reshape(-1, 1)
a = self.inbound_nodes[1].value.reshape(-1, 1)
self.m = self.inbound_nodes[0].value.shape[0]
# Save the computed output for backward.
self.diff = y - a
self.value = np.mean(self.diff**2)
def backward(self):
"""
Calculates the gradient of the cost.
"""
self.gradients[self.inbound_nodes[0]] = (2 / self.m) * self.diff
self.gradients[self.inbound_nodes[1]] = (-2 / self.m) * self.diff
def topological_sort(feed_dict):
"""
Sort the nodes in topological order using Kahn's Algorithm.
`feed_dict`: A dictionary where the key is a `Input` Node and the value is the respective value feed to that Node.
Returns a list of sorted nodes.
"""
input_nodes = [n for n in feed_dict.keys()]
G = {}
nodes = [n for n in input_nodes]
while len(nodes) > 0:
n = nodes.pop(0)
if n not in G:
G[n] = {'in': set(), 'out': set()}
for m in n.outbound_nodes:
if m not in G:
G[m] = {'in': set(), 'out': set()}
G[n]['out'].add(m)
G[m]['in'].add(n)
nodes.append(m)
L = []
S = set(input_nodes)
while len(S) > 0:
n = S.pop()
if isinstance(n, Input):
n.value = feed_dict[n]
L.append(n)
for m in n.outbound_nodes:
G[n]['out'].remove(m)
G[m]['in'].remove(n)
# if no other incoming edges add to S
if len(G[m]['in']) == 0:
S.add(m)
return L
def forward_and_backward(graph):
"""
Performs a forward pass and a backward pass through a list of sorted Nodes.
Arguments:
`graph`: The result of calling `topological_sort`.
"""
# Forward pass
for n in graph:
n.forward()
# Backward pass
# see: https://docs.python.org/2.3/whatsnew/section-slices.html
for n in graph[::-1]:
n.backward()
def sgd_update(trainables, learning_rate=1e-2):
"""
Updates the value of each trainable with SGD.
Arguments:
`trainables`: A list of `Input` Nodes representing weights/biases.
`learning_rate`: The learning rate.
"""
# TODO: update all the `trainables` with SGD
# You can access and assign the value of a trainable with `value` attribute.
# Example:
# for t in trainables:
# t.value = your implementation here
pass