Training a Simple Neural Network, with PyTorch Data Loading¶
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Let's combine everything we showed in the quickstart notebook to train a simple neural network. We will first specify and train a simple MLP on MNIST using JAX for the computation. We will use PyTorch's data loading API to load images and labels (because it's pretty great, and the world doesn't need yet another data loading library).
Of course, you can use JAX with any API that is compatible with NumPy to make specifying the model a bit more plug-and-play. Here, just for explanatory purposes, we won't use any neural network libraries or special APIs for builidng our model.
import jax.numpy as np
from jax import grad, jit, vmap
from jax import random
Hyperparameters¶
Let's get a few bookkeeping items out of the way.
# A helper function to randomly initialize weights and biases
# for a dense neural network layer
def random_layer_params(m, n, key, scale=1e-2):
w_key, b_key = random.split(key)
return scale * random.normal(w_key, (n, m)), scale * random.normal(b_key, (n,))
# Initialize all layers for a fully-connected neural network with sizes "sizes"
def init_network_params(sizes, key):
keys = random.split(key, len(sizes))
return [random_layer_params(m, n, k) for m, n, k in zip(sizes[:-1], sizes[1:], keys)]
layer_sizes = [784, 512, 512, 10]
param_scale = 0.1
step_size = 0.0001
num_epochs = 8
batch_size = 128
n_targets = 10
params = init_network_params(layer_sizes, random.PRNGKey(0))
Auto-batching predictions¶
Let us first define our prediction function. Note that we're defining this for a single image example. We're going to use JAX's vmap function to automatically handle mini-batches, with no performance penalty.
from jax.scipy.special import logsumexp
def relu(x):
return np.maximum(0, x)
def predict(params, image):
# per-example predictions
activations = image
for w, b in params[:-1]:
outputs = np.dot(w, activations) + b
activations = relu(outputs)
final_w, final_b = params[-1]
logits = np.dot(final_w, activations) + final_b
return logits - logsumexp(logits)
Let's check that our prediction function only works on single images.
# This works on single examples
random_flattened_image = random.normal(random.PRNGKey(1), (28 * 28,))
preds = predict(params, random_flattened_image)
print(preds.shape)
(10,)
# Doesn't work with a batch
random_flattened_images = random.normal(random.PRNGKey(1), (10, 28 * 28))
try:
preds = predict(params, random_flattened_images)
except TypeError:
print('Invalid shapes!')
Invalid shapes!
# Let's upgrade it to handle batches using `vmap`
# Make a batched version of the `predict` function
batched_predict = vmap(predict, in_axes=(None, 0))
# `batched_predict` has the same call signature as `predict`
batched_preds = batched_predict(params, random_flattened_images)
print(batched_preds.shape)
(10, 10)
At this point, we have all the ingredients we need to define our neural network and train it. We've built an auto-batched version of predict, which we should be able to use in a loss function. We should be able to use grad to take the derivative of the loss with respect to the neural network parameters. Last, we should be able to use jit to speed up everything.
Utility and loss functions¶
def one_hot(x, k, dtype=np.float32):
"""Create a one-hot encoding of x of size k."""
return np.array(x[:, None] == np.arange(k), dtype)
def accuracy(params, images, targets):
target_class = np.argmax(targets, axis=1)
predicted_class = np.argmax(batched_predict(params, images), axis=1)
return np.mean(predicted_class == target_class)
def loss(params, images, targets):
preds = batched_predict(params, images)
return -np.sum(preds * targets)
@jit
def update(params, x, y):
grads = grad(loss)(params, x, y)
return [(w - step_size * dw, b - step_size * db)
for (w, b), (dw, db) in zip(params, grads)]
Data Loading with PyTorch¶
JAX is laser-focused on program transformations and accelerator-backed NumPy, so we don't include data loading or munging in the JAX library. There are already a lot of great data loaders out there, so let's just use them instead of reinventing anything. We'll grab PyTorch's data loader, and make a tiny shim to make it work with NumPy arrays.
!pip install torch torchvision
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import numpy as onp
from torch.utils import data
from torchvision.datasets import MNIST
def numpy_collate(batch):
if isinstance(batch[0], onp.ndarray):
return onp.stack(batch)
elif isinstance(batch[0], (tuple,list)):
transposed = zip(*batch)
return [numpy_collate(samples) for samples in transposed]
else:
return onp.array(batch)
class NumpyLoader(data.DataLoader):
def __init__(self, dataset, batch_size=1,
shuffle=False, sampler=None,
batch_sampler=None, num_workers=0,
pin_memory=False, drop_last=False,
timeout=0, worker_init_fn=None):
super(self.__class__, self).__init__(dataset,
batch_size=batch_size,
shuffle=shuffle,
sampler=sampler,
batch_sampler=batch_sampler,
num_workers=num_workers,
collate_fn=numpy_collate,
pin_memory=pin_memory,
drop_last=drop_last,
timeout=timeout,
worker_init_fn=worker_init_fn)
class FlattenAndCast(object):
def __call__(self, pic):
return onp.ravel(onp.array(pic, dtype=np.float32))
# Define our dataset, using torch datasets
mnist_dataset = MNIST('/tmp/mnist/', download=True, transform=FlattenAndCast())
training_generator = NumpyLoader(mnist_dataset, batch_size=128, num_workers=0)
# Get the full train dataset (for checking accuracy while training)
train_images = onp.array(mnist_dataset.train_data).reshape(len(mnist_dataset.train_data), -1)
train_labels = one_hot(onp.array(mnist_dataset.train_labels), n_targets)
# Get full test dataset
mnist_dataset_test = MNIST('/tmp/mnist/', download=True, train=False)
test_images = np.array(mnist_dataset_test.test_data.numpy().reshape(len(mnist_dataset_test.test_data), -1), dtype=np.float32)
test_labels = one_hot(onp.array(mnist_dataset_test.test_labels), n_targets)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py:53: UserWarning: train_data has been renamed data
warnings.warn("train_data has been renamed data")
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py:43: UserWarning: train_labels has been renamed targets
warnings.warn("train_labels has been renamed targets")
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py:58: UserWarning: test_data has been renamed data
warnings.warn("test_data has been renamed data")
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torchvision/datasets/mnist.py:48: UserWarning: test_labels has been renamed targets
warnings.warn("test_labels has been renamed targets")
Training Loop¶
import time
for epoch in range(num_epochs):
start_time = time.time()
for x, y in training_generator:
y = one_hot(y, n_targets)
params = update(params, x, y)
epoch_time = time.time() - start_time
train_acc = accuracy(params, train_images, train_labels)
test_acc = accuracy(params, test_images, test_labels)
print("Epoch {} in {:0.2f} sec".format(epoch, epoch_time))
print("Training set accuracy {}".format(train_acc))
print("Test set accuracy {}".format(test_acc))
Epoch 0 in 5.19 sec Training set accuracy 0.9593999981880188 Test set accuracy 0.9559000730514526 Epoch 1 in 4.42 sec Training set accuracy 0.9792166948318481 Test set accuracy 0.971500039100647 Epoch 2 in 4.47 sec Training set accuracy 0.9883999824523926 Test set accuracy 0.9779000282287598 Epoch 3 in 4.55 sec Training set accuracy 0.9918666481971741 Test set accuracy 0.9794000387191772 Epoch 4 in 4.47 sec Training set accuracy 0.9939500093460083 Test set accuracy 0.9784000515937805 Epoch 5 in 4.46 sec Training set accuracy 0.9948500394821167 Test set accuracy 0.9793000221252441 Epoch 6 in 4.55 sec Training set accuracy 0.9959666728973389 Test set accuracy 0.9788000583648682 Epoch 7 in 4.51 sec Training set accuracy 0.9974666833877563 Test set accuracy 0.979900062084198
We've now used the whole of the JAX API: grad for derivatives, jit for speedups and vmap for auto-vectorization.
We used NumPy to specify all of our computation, and borrowed the great data loaders from PyTorch, and ran the whole thing on the GPU.