# My presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks & Deep Learning’ -Parts 6,7,8

This is the final set of presentations in my series ‘Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning’. This set follows the earlier 2 sets of presentations namely
1. My presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks & Deep Learning’ -Part1,2,3
2. My presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks & Deep Learning’ -Parts 4,5

In this final set of presentations I discuss initialization methods, regularization techniques including dropout. Next I also discuss gradient descent optimization methods like momentum, rmsprop, adam etc. Lastly, I briefly also touch on hyper-parameter tuning approaches. The corresponding implementations are available in vectorized R, Python and Octave are available in my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave

1. Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Part 6
This part discusses initialization methods specifically like He and Xavier. The presentation also focuses on how to prevent over-fitting using regularization. Lastly the dropout method of regularization is also discusses

The corresponding implementations in vectorized R, Python and Octave of the above discussed methods are available in my post Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 6

2. Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Part 7
This presentation introduces exponentially weighted moving average and shows how this is used in different approaches to gradient descent optimization. The key techniques discussed are learning rate decay, momentum method, rmsprop and adam.

The equivalent implementations of the gradient descent optimization techniques in R, Python and Octave can be seen in my post Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 7

3. Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Part 8
This last part touches upon hyper-parameter tuning in Deep Learning networks

This concludes this series of presentations on “Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning’

Checkout my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles: Second Edition – In vectorized Python, R and Octave’. My book starts with the implementation of a simple 2-layer Neural Network and works its way to a generic L-Layer Deep Learning Network, with all the bells and whistles. The derivations have been discussed in detail. The code has been extensively commented and included in its entirety in the Appendix sections. My book is available on Amazon as paperback ($18.99) and and in kindle version($9.99/Rs449).

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# My presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks & Deep Learning’ -Parts 4,5

This is the next set of presentations on “Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning”.  In the 4th presentation I discuss and derive the generalized equations for a multi-unit, multi-layer Deep Learning network.  The 5th presentation derives the equations for a Deep Learning network when performing multi-class classification along with the derivations for cross-entropy loss. The corresponding implementations are available in vectorized R, Python and Octave are available in my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave

1. Elements of Neural Network and Deep Learning – Part 4
This presentation is a continuation of my 3rd presentation in which I derived the equations for a simple 3 layer Neural Network with 1 hidden layer. In this video presentation, I discuss step-by-step the derivations for a L-Layer, multi-unit Deep Learning Network, with any activation function g(z)

The implementations of L-Layer, multi-unit Deep Learning Network in vectorized R, Python and Octave are available in my post Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 3

2. Elements of Neural Network and Deep Learning – Part 5
This presentation discusses multi-class classification using the Softmax function. The detailed derivation for the Jacobian of the Softmax is discussed, and subsequently the derivative of cross-entropy loss is also discussed in detail. Finally the final set of equations for a Neural Network with multi-class classification is derived.

The corresponding implementations in vectorized R, Python and Octave are available in the following posts
a. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 4
b. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 5

To be continued. Watch this space!

Checkout my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles: Second Edition – In vectorized Python, R and Octave’. My book starts with the implementation of a simple 2-layer Neural Network and works its way to a generic L-Layer Deep Learning Network, with all the bells and whistles. The derivations have been discussed in detail. The code has been extensively commented and included in its entirety in the Appendix sections. My book is available on Amazon as paperback ($18.99) and in kindle version($9.99/Rs449).

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# My presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks & Deep Learning’ -Part1,2,3

I will be uploading a series of presentations on ‘Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning’. In these video presentations I discuss the derivations of L -Layer Deep Learning Networks, starting from the basics. The corresponding implementations are available in vectorized R, Python and Octave are available in my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave

1. Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Part 1
This presentation introduces Neural Networks and Deep Learning. A look at history of Neural Networks, Perceptrons and why Deep Learning networks are required and concluding with a simple toy examples of a Neural Network and how they compute

2. Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Part 2
This presentation takes logistic regression as an example and creates an equivalent 2 layer Neural network. The presentation also takes a look at forward & backward propagation and how the cost is minimized using gradient descent

The implementation of the discussed 2 layer Neural Network in vectorized R, Python and Octave are available in my post ‘Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 1

3. Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning – Part 3
This 3rd part, discusses a primitive neural network with an input layer, output layer and a hidden layer. The neural network uses tanh activation in the hidden layer and a sigmoid activation in the output layer. The equations for forward and backward propagation are derived.

To see the implementations for the above discussed video see my post ‘Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 2

To be continued. Watch this space!

Checkout my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles: Second Edition – In vectorized Python, R and Octave’. My book starts with the implementation of a simple 2-layer Neural Network and works its way to a generic L-Layer Deep Learning Network, with all the bells and whistles. The derivations have been discussed in detail. The code has been extensively commented and included in its entirety in the Appendix sections. My book is available on Amazon as paperback ($18.99) and in kindle version($9.99/Rs449).

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# My book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition’ now on Amazon

The second edition of my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave’, is now available on Amazon, in both paperback ($18.99) and kindle ($9.99/Rs449/-)  versions. Since this book is almost 70% code, all functions, and code snippets have been formatted to use the fixed-width font ‘Lucida Console’. In addition line numbers have been added to all code snippets. This makes the code more organized and much more readable. I have also fixed typos in the book

The book includes the following chapters

Table of Contents
Preface 4
Introduction 6
1. Logistic Regression as a Neural Network 8
2. Implementing a simple Neural Network 23
3. Building a L- Layer Deep Learning Network 48
4. Deep Learning network with the Softmax 85
5. MNIST classification with Softmax 103
6. Initialization, regularization in Deep Learning 121
7. Gradient Descent Optimization techniques 167
8. Gradient Check in Deep Learning 197
1. Appendix A 214
2. Appendix 1 – Logistic Regression as a Neural Network 220
3. Appendix 2 - Implementing a simple Neural Network 227
4. Appendix 3 - Building a L- Layer Deep Learning Network 240
5. Appendix 4 - Deep Learning network with the Softmax 259
6. Appendix 5 - MNIST classification with Softmax 269
7. Appendix 6 - Initialization, regularization in Deep Learning 302
8. Appendix 7 - Gradient Descent Optimization techniques 344
9. Appendix 8 – Gradient Check 405
References 475

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# My book “Deep Learning from first principles” now on Amazon

Note: The 2nd edition of this book is now available on Amazon

My 4th book(self-published), “Deep Learning from first principles – In vectorized Python, R and Octave” (557 pages), is now available on Amazon in both paperback ($18.99) and kindle ($9.99/Rs449). The book starts with the most primitive 2-layer Neural Network and works  its way to a generic L-layer Deep Learning Network, with all the bells and whistles.  The book includes detailed derivations and vectorized implementations in Python, R and Octave.  The code has been extensively  commented and has been included in the Appendix section.

# Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 8

## 1. Introduction

You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either. Marvin Minsky
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. Herbert Simon

This post, Deep Learning from first Principles in Python, R and Octave-Part8, is my final post in my Deep Learning from first principles series. In this post, I discuss and implement a key functionality needed while building Deep Learning networks viz. ‘Gradient Checking’. Gradient Checking is an important method to check the correctness of your implementation, specifically the forward propagation and the backward propagation cycles of an implementation. In addition I also discuss some tips for tuning hyper-parameters of a Deep Learning network based on my experience.

My post in this  ‘Deep Learning Series’ so far were
1. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 1 In part 1, I implement logistic regression as a neural network in vectorized Python, R and Octave
2. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 2 In the second part I implement a simple Neural network with just 1 hidden layer and a sigmoid activation output function
3. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 3 The 3rd part implemented a multi-layer Deep Learning Network with sigmoid activation output in vectorized Python, R and Octave
4. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 4 The 4th part deals with multi-class classification. Specifically, I derive the Jacobian of the Softmax function and enhance my L-Layer DL network to include Softmax output function in addition to Sigmoid activation
5. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 5 This post uses the Softmax classifier implemented to classify MNIST digits using a L-layer Deep Learning network
6. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 6 The 6th part adds more bells and whistles to my L-Layer DL network, by including different initialization types namely He and Xavier. Besides L2 Regularization and random dropout is added.
7. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 7 The 7th part deals with Stochastic Gradient Descent Optimization methods including momentum, RMSProp and Adam
8. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 8 – This post implements a critical function for ensuring the correctness of a L-Layer Deep Learning network implementation using Gradient Checking

Checkout my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles: Second Edition – In vectorized Python, R and Octave’. My book starts with the implementation of a simple 2-layer Neural Network and works its way to a generic L-Layer Deep Learning Network, with all the bells and whistles. The derivations have been discussed in detail. The code has been extensively commented and included in its entirety in the Appendix sections. My book is available on Amazon as paperback ($18.99) and in kindle version($9.99/Rs449).

You may also like my companion book “Practical Machine Learning with R and Python- Machine Learning in stereo” available in Amazon in paperback($9.99) and Kindle($6.99) versions. This book is ideal for a quick reference of the various ML functions and associated measurements in both R and Python which are essential to delve deep into Deep Learning.

Gradient Checking is based on the following approach. One iteration of Gradient Descent computes and updates the parameters $\theta$ by doing
$\theta := \theta - \frac{d}{d\theta}J(\theta)$.
To minimize the cost we will need to minimize $J(\theta)$
Let $g(\theta)$ be a function that computes the derivative $\frac {d}{d\theta}J(\theta)$. Gradient Checking allows us to numerically evaluate the implementation of the function $g(\theta)$ and verify its correctness.
We know the derivative of a function is given by
$\frac {d}{d\theta}J(\theta) = lim->0 \frac {J(\theta +\epsilon) - J(\theta -\epsilon)} {2*\epsilon}$
Note: The above derivative is based on the 2 sided derivative. The 1-sided derivative  is given by $\frac {d}{d\theta}J(\theta) = lim->0 \frac {J(\theta +\epsilon) - J(\theta)} {\epsilon}$
Gradient Checking is based on the 2-sided derivative because the error is of the order $O(\epsilon^{2})$ as opposed $O(\epsilon)$ for the 1-sided derivative.
Hence Gradient Check uses the 2 sided derivative as follows.
$g(\theta) = lim->0 \frac {J(\theta +\epsilon) - J(\theta -\epsilon)} {2*\epsilon}$

In Gradient Check the following is done
A) Run one normal cycle of your implementation by doing the following
a) Compute the output activation by running 1 cycle of forward propagation
b) Compute the cost using the output activation

B) Perform gradient check steps as below
a) Set $\theta$ . Flatten all ‘weights’ and ‘bias’ matrices and vectors to a column vector.
b) Initialize $\theta+$ by bumping up $\theta$ by adding $\epsilon$ ($\theta + \epsilon$)
c) Perform forward propagation with $\theta+$
d) Compute cost with $\theta+$ i.e. $J(\theta+)$
e) Initialize  $\theta-$ by bumping down $\theta$ by subtracting $\epsilon$ $(\theta - \epsilon)$
f) Perform forward propagation with $\theta-$
g) Compute cost with $\theta-$ i.e.  $J(\theta-)$
h) Compute $\frac {d} {d\theta} J(\theta)$ or ‘gradapprox’ as$\frac {J(\theta+) - J(\theta-) } {2\epsilon}$using the 2 sided derivative.
i) Compute L2norm or the Euclidean distance between ‘grad’ and ‘gradapprox’. If the
diference is of the order of $10^{-5}$ or $10^{-7}$ the implementation is correct. In the Deep Learning Specialization Prof Andrew Ng mentions that if the difference is of the order of $10^{-7}$ then the implementation is correct. A difference of $10^{-5}$ is also ok. Anything more than that is a cause of worry and you should look at your code more closely. To see more details click Gradient checking and advanced optimization

After spending a better part of 3 days, I now realize how critical Gradient Check is for ensuring the correctness of you implementation. Initially I was getting very high difference and did not know how to understand the results or debug my implementation. After many hours of staring at the results, I  was able to finally arrive at a way, to localize issues in the implementation. In fact, I did catch a small bug in my Python code, which did not exist in the R and Octave implementations. I will demonstrate this below

## 1.1a Gradient Check – Sigmoid Activation – Python

import numpy as np
import matplotlib

train_X, train_Y, test_X, test_Y = load_dataset()
#Set layer dimensions
layersDimensions = [2,4,1]
parameters = initializeDeepModel(layersDimensions)
#Perform forward prop
AL, caches, dropoutMat = forwardPropagationDeep(train_X, parameters, keep_prob=1, hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc="sigmoid")
#Compute cost
cost = computeCost(AL, train_Y, outputActivationFunc="sigmoid")
print("cost=",cost)
gradients = backwardPropagationDeep(AL, train_Y, caches, dropoutMat, lambd=0, keep_prob=1,                                   hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc="sigmoid")

epsilon = 1e-7
outputActivationFunc="sigmoid"

# Set-up variables
# Flatten parameters to a vector
parameters_values, _ = dictionary_to_vector(parameters)
num_parameters = parameters_values.shape[0]
#Initialize
J_plus = np.zeros((num_parameters, 1))
J_minus = np.zeros((num_parameters, 1))

# Compute gradapprox using 2 sided derivative
for i in range(num_parameters):
# Compute J_plus[i].
thetaplus = np.copy(parameters_values)
thetaplus[i][0] = thetaplus[i][0] + epsilon
AL, caches, dropoutMat = forwardPropagationDeep(train_X, vector_to_dictionary(parameters,thetaplus), keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc)
J_plus[i] = computeCost(AL, train_Y, outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc)

# Compute J_minus[i].
thetaminus = np.copy(parameters_values)
thetaminus[i][0] = thetaminus[i][0] - epsilon
AL, caches, dropoutMat  = forwardPropagationDeep(train_X, vector_to_dictionary(parameters,thetaminus), keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc)
J_minus[i] = computeCost(AL, train_Y, outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc)

difference =  numerator/denominator

#Check the difference
if difference > 1e-5:
print ("\033[93m" + "There is a mistake in the backward propagation! difference = " + str(difference) + "\033[0m")
else:
print ("\033[92m" + "Your backward propagation works perfectly fine! difference = " + str(difference) + "\033[0m")
print(difference)
print("\n")
# The technique below can be used to identify
# which of the parameters are in error
print(m)
print("\n")
print(n)

## (300, 2)
## (300,)
## cost= 0.6931455556341791
## [92mYour backward propagation works perfectly fine! difference = 1.1604150683743381e-06[0m
## 1.1604150683743381e-06
##
##
## {'dW1': array([[-6.19439955e-06, -2.06438046e-06],
##        [-1.50165447e-05,  7.50401672e-05],
##        [ 1.33435433e-04,  1.74112143e-04],
##        [-3.40909024e-05, -1.38363681e-04]]), 'db1': array([[ 7.31333221e-07],
##        [ 7.98425950e-06],
##        [ 8.15002817e-08],
##        [-5.69821155e-08]]), 'dW2': array([[2.73416304e-04, 2.96061451e-04, 7.51837363e-05, 1.01257729e-04]]), 'db2': array([[-7.22232235e-06]])}
##
##
## {'dW1': array([[-6.19448937e-06, -2.06501483e-06],
##        [-1.50168766e-05,  7.50399742e-05],
##        [ 1.33435485e-04,  1.74112391e-04],
##        [-3.40910633e-05, -1.38363765e-04]]), 'db1': array([[ 7.31081862e-07],
##        [ 7.98472399e-06],
##        [ 8.16013923e-08],
##        [-5.71764858e-08]]), 'dW2': array([[2.73416290e-04, 2.96061509e-04, 7.51831930e-05, 1.01257891e-04]]), 'db2': array([[-7.22255589e-06]])}

## 1.1b Gradient Check – Softmax Activation – Python (Error!!)

In the code below I show, how I managed to spot a bug in your implementation

import numpy as np
N = 100 # number of points per class
D = 2 # dimensionality
K = 3 # number of classes
X = np.zeros((N*K,D)) # data matrix (each row = single example)
y = np.zeros(N*K, dtype='uint8') # class labels
for j in range(K):
ix = range(N*j,N*(j+1))
t = np.linspace(j*4,(j+1)*4,N) + np.random.randn(N)*0.2 # theta
X[ix] = np.c_[r*np.sin(t), r*np.cos(t)]
y[ix] = j

# Plot the data
#plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=y, s=40, cmap=plt.cm.Spectral)
layersDimensions = [2,3,3]
y1=y.reshape(-1,1).T
train_X=X.T
train_Y=y1

parameters = initializeDeepModel(layersDimensions)
#Compute forward prop
AL, caches, dropoutMat = forwardPropagationDeep(train_X, parameters, keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc="softmax")
#Compute cost
cost = computeCost(AL, train_Y, outputActivationFunc="softmax")
print("cost=",cost)
gradients = backwardPropagationDeep(AL, train_Y, caches, dropoutMat, lambd=0, keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc="softmax")
# Note the transpose of the gradients for Softmax has to be taken
L= len(parameters)//2
print(L)
gradient_check_n(parameters, gradients, train_X, train_Y, epsilon = 1e-7,outputActivationFunc="softmax")

cost= 1.0986187818144022
2
There is a mistake in the backward propagation! difference = 0.7100295155692544
0.7100295155692544

{'dW1': array([[ 0.00050125,  0.00045194],
[ 0.00096392,  0.00039641],
[-0.00014276, -0.00045639]]), 'db1': array([[ 0.00070082],
[-0.00224399],
[ 0.00052305]]), 'dW2': array([[-8.40953794e-05, -9.52657769e-04, -1.10269379e-04],
[-7.45469382e-04,  9.49795606e-04,  2.29045434e-04],
[ 8.29564761e-04,  2.86216305e-06, -1.18776055e-04]]),
'db2': array([[-0.00253808],
[-0.00505508],
[ 0.00759315]])}

{'dW1': array([[ 0.00050125,  0.00045194],
[ 0.00096392,  0.00039641],
[-0.00014276, -0.00045639]]), 'db1': array([[ 0.00070082],
[-0.00224399],
[ 0.00052305]]), 'dW2': array([[-8.40960634e-05, -9.52657953e-04, -1.10268461e-04],
[-7.45469242e-04,  9.49796908e-04,  2.29045671e-04],
[ 8.29565305e-04,  2.86104473e-06, -1.18776100e-04]]),
'db2': array([[-8.46211989e-06],
[-1.68487446e-05],
[ 2.53108645e-05]])}

Gradient Check gives a high value of the difference of 0.7100295. Inspecting the Gradients and Gradapprox we can see there is a very big discrepancy in db2. After I went over my code I discovered that I my computation in the function layerActivationBackward for Softmax was


# Erroneous code
if activationFunc == 'softmax':
dW = 1/numtraining * np.dot(A_prev,dZ)
db = np.sum(dZ, axis=0, keepdims=True)
dA_prev = np.dot(dZ,W)
# Fixed code
if activationFunc == 'softmax':
dW = 1/numtraining * np.dot(A_prev,dZ)
db = 1/numtraining *  np.sum(dZ, axis=0, keepdims=True)
dA_prev = np.dot(dZ,W)


After fixing this error when I ran Gradient Check I get

## 1.1c Gradient Check – Softmax Activation – Python (Corrected!!)

import numpy as np
N = 100 # number of points per class
D = 2 # dimensionality
K = 3 # number of classes
X = np.zeros((N*K,D)) # data matrix (each row = single example)
y = np.zeros(N*K, dtype='uint8') # class labels
for j in range(K):
ix = range(N*j,N*(j+1))
t = np.linspace(j*4,(j+1)*4,N) + np.random.randn(N)*0.2 # theta
X[ix] = np.c_[r*np.sin(t), r*np.cos(t)]
y[ix] = j

# Plot the data
#plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=y, s=40, cmap=plt.cm.Spectral)
layersDimensions = [2,3,3]
y1=y.reshape(-1,1).T
train_X=X.T
train_Y=y1
#Set layer dimensions
parameters = initializeDeepModel(layersDimensions)
#Perform forward prop
AL, caches, dropoutMat = forwardPropagationDeep(train_X, parameters, keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc="softmax")
#Compute cost
cost = computeCost(AL, train_Y, outputActivationFunc="softmax")
print("cost=",cost)
gradients = backwardPropagationDeep(AL, train_Y, caches, dropoutMat, lambd=0, keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc="softmax")
# Note the transpose of the gradients for Softmax has to be taken
L= len(parameters)//2
print(L)
gradient_check_n(parameters, gradients, train_X, train_Y, epsilon = 1e-7,outputActivationFunc="softmax")
## cost= 1.0986193170234435
## 2
## [92mYour backward propagation works perfectly fine! difference = 5.268804859613151e-07[0m
## 5.268804859613151e-07
##
##
## {'dW1': array([[ 0.00053206,  0.00038987],
##        [ 0.00093941,  0.00038077],
##        [-0.00012177, -0.0004692 ]]), 'db1': array([[ 0.00072662],
##        [-0.00210198],
##        [ 0.00046741]]), 'dW2': array([[-7.83441270e-05, -9.70179498e-04, -1.08715815e-04],
##        [-7.70175008e-04,  9.54478237e-04,  2.27690198e-04],
##        [ 8.48519135e-04,  1.57012608e-05, -1.18974383e-04]]), 'db2': array([[-8.52190476e-06],
##        [-1.69954294e-05],
##        [ 2.55173342e-05]])}
##
##
## {'dW1': array([[ 0.00053206,  0.00038987],
##        [ 0.00093941,  0.00038077],
##        [-0.00012177, -0.0004692 ]]), 'db1': array([[ 0.00072662],
##        [-0.00210198],
##        [ 0.00046741]]), 'dW2': array([[-7.83439980e-05, -9.70180603e-04, -1.08716369e-04],
##        [-7.70173925e-04,  9.54478718e-04,  2.27690089e-04],
##        [ 8.48520143e-04,  1.57018842e-05, -1.18973720e-04]]), 'db2': array([[-8.52096171e-06],
##        [-1.69964043e-05],
##        [ 2.55162558e-05]])}

## 1.2a Gradient Check – Sigmoid Activation – R

source("DLfunctions8.R")

x <- z[,1:2]
y <- z[,3]
X <- t(x)
Y <- t(y)
#Set layer dimensions
layersDimensions = c(2,5,1)
parameters = initializeDeepModel(layersDimensions)
#Perform forward prop
retvals = forwardPropagationDeep(X, parameters,keep_prob=1, hiddenActivationFunc="relu",
outputActivationFunc="sigmoid")
AL <- retvals[['AL']]
caches <- retvals[['caches']]
dropoutMat <- retvals[['dropoutMat']]
#Compute cost
cost <- computeCost(AL, Y,outputActivationFunc="sigmoid",
numClasses=layersDimensions[length(layersDimensions)])
print(cost)
## [1] 0.6931447
# Backward propagation.
gradients = backwardPropagationDeep(AL, Y, caches, dropoutMat, lambd=0, keep_prob=1, hiddenActivationFunc="relu",
outputActivationFunc="sigmoid",numClasses=layersDimensions[length(layersDimensions)])
epsilon = 1e-07
outputActivationFunc="sigmoid"
#Convert parameter list to vector
parameters_values = list_to_vector(parameters)
num_parameters = dim(parameters_values)[1]
#Initialize
J_plus = matrix(rep(0,num_parameters),
nrow=num_parameters,ncol=1)
J_minus = matrix(rep(0,num_parameters),
nrow=num_parameters,ncol=1)
nrow=num_parameters,ncol=1)

for(i in 1:num_parameters){
# Compute J_plus[i].
thetaplus = parameters_values
thetaplus[i][1] = thetaplus[i][1] + epsilon
retvals = forwardPropagationDeep(X, vector_to_list(parameters,thetaplus), keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc)

AL <- retvals[['AL']]
J_plus[i] = computeCost(AL, Y, outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc)

# Compute J_minus[i].
thetaminus = parameters_values
thetaminus[i][1] = thetaminus[i][1] - epsilon
retvals  = forwardPropagationDeep(X, vector_to_list(parameters,thetaminus), keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc)
AL <- retvals[['AL']]
J_minus[i] = computeCost(AL, Y, outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc)

}
#Compute L2Norm
difference =  numerator/denominator
if(difference > 1e-5){
cat("There is a mistake, the difference is too high",difference)
} else{
cat("The implementations works perfectly", difference)
}
## The implementations works perfectly 1.279911e-06
# This can be used to check
print("Gradients from backprop")
## [1] "Gradients from backprop"
vector_to_list2(parameters,grad)
## $dW1 ## [,1] [,2] ## [1,] -7.641588e-05 -3.427989e-07 ## [2,] -9.049683e-06 6.906304e-05 ## [3,] 3.401039e-06 -1.503914e-04 ## [4,] 1.535226e-04 -1.686402e-04 ## [5,] -6.029292e-05 -2.715648e-04 ## ##$db1
##               [,1]
## [1,]  6.930318e-06
## [2,] -3.283117e-05
## [3,]  1.310647e-05
## [4,] -3.454308e-05
## [5,] -2.331729e-08
##
## $dW2 ## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] ## [1,] 0.0001612356 0.0001113475 0.0002435824 0.000362149 2.874116e-05 ## ##$db2
##              [,1]
## [1,] -1.16364e-05
print("Grad approx from gradient check")
## [1] "Grad approx from gradient check"
vector_to_list2(parameters,gradapprox)
## $dW1 ## [,1] [,2] ## [1,] -7.641554e-05 -3.430589e-07 ## [2,] -9.049428e-06 6.906253e-05 ## [3,] 3.401168e-06 -1.503919e-04 ## [4,] 1.535228e-04 -1.686401e-04 ## [5,] -6.029288e-05 -2.715650e-04 ## ##$db1
##               [,1]
## [1,]  6.930012e-06
## [2,] -3.283096e-05
## [3,]  1.310618e-05
## [4,] -3.454237e-05
## [5,] -2.275957e-08
##
## $dW2 ## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] ## [1,] 0.0001612355 0.0001113476 0.0002435829 0.0003621486 2.87409e-05 ## ##$db2
##              [,1]
## [1,] -1.16368e-05

## 1.2b Gradient Check – Softmax Activation – R

source("DLfunctions8.R")

# Setup the data
X <- Z[,1:2]
y <- Z[,3]
X <- t(X)
Y <- t(y)
layersDimensions = c(2, 3, 3)
parameters = initializeDeepModel(layersDimensions)
#Perform forward prop
retvals = forwardPropagationDeep(X, parameters,keep_prob=1, hiddenActivationFunc="relu",
outputActivationFunc="softmax")
AL <- retvals[['AL']]
caches <- retvals[['caches']]
dropoutMat <- retvals[['dropoutMat']]
#Compute cost
cost <- computeCost(AL, Y,outputActivationFunc="softmax",
numClasses=layersDimensions[length(layersDimensions)])
print(cost)
## [1] 1.098618
# Backward propagation.
gradients = backwardPropagationDeep(AL, Y, caches, dropoutMat, lambd=0, keep_prob=1, hiddenActivationFunc="relu",
outputActivationFunc="softmax",numClasses=layersDimensions[length(layersDimensions)])
# Need to take transpose of the last layer for Softmax
L=length(parameters)/2
epsilon = 1e-7,outputActivationFunc="softmax")
## The implementations works perfectly 3.903011e-07[1] "Gradients from backprop"
## $dW1 ## [,1] [,2] ## [1,] 0.0007962367 -0.0001907606 ## [2,] 0.0004444254 0.0010354412 ## [3,] 0.0003078611 0.0007591255 ## ##$db1
##               [,1]
## [1,] -0.0017305136
## [2,]  0.0005393734
## [3,]  0.0012484550
##
## $dW2 ## [,1] [,2] [,3] ## [1,] -3.515627e-04 7.487283e-04 -3.971656e-04 ## [2,] -6.381521e-05 -1.257328e-06 6.507254e-05 ## [3,] -1.719479e-04 -4.857264e-04 6.576743e-04 ## ##$db2
##               [,1]
## [1,] -5.536383e-06
## [2,] -1.824656e-05
## [3,]  2.378295e-05
##
## $dW1 ## [,1] [,2] ## [1,] 0.0007962364 -0.0001907607 ## [2,] 0.0004444256 0.0010354406 ## [3,] 0.0003078615 0.0007591250 ## ##$db1
##               [,1]
## [1,] -0.0017305135
## [2,]  0.0005393741
## [3,]  0.0012484547
##
## $dW2 ## [,1] [,2] [,3] ## [1,] -3.515632e-04 7.487277e-04 -3.971656e-04 ## [2,] -6.381451e-05 -1.257883e-06 6.507239e-05 ## [3,] -1.719469e-04 -4.857270e-04 6.576739e-04 ## ##$db2
##               [,1]
## [1,] -5.536682e-06
## [2,] -1.824652e-05
## [3,]  2.378209e-05

## 1.3a Gradient Check – Sigmoid Activation – Octave

source("DL8functions.m")
################## Circles

X=data(:,1:2);
Y=data(:,3);
#Set layer dimensions
layersDimensions = [2 5  1]; #tanh=-0.5(ok), #relu=0.1 best!
[weights biases] = initializeDeepModel(layersDimensions);
#Perform forward prop
[AL forward_caches activation_caches droputMat] = forwardPropagationDeep(X', weights, biases,keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu", outputActivationFunc="sigmoid");
#Compute cost
cost = computeCost(AL, Y',outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc,numClasses=layersDimensions(size(layersDimensions)(2)));
disp(cost);
hiddenActivationFunc="relu", outputActivationFunc="sigmoid",
numClasses=layersDimensions(size(layersDimensions)(2)));
epsilon = 1e-07;
outputActivationFunc="sigmoid";
# Convert paramter cell array to vector
parameters_values = cellArray_to_vector(weights, biases);
#Convert gradient cell array to vector
num_parameters = size(parameters_values)(1);
#Initialize
J_plus = zeros(num_parameters, 1);
J_minus = zeros(num_parameters, 1);
for i = 1:num_parameters
# Compute J_plus[i].
thetaplus = parameters_values;
thetaplus(i,1) = thetaplus(i,1) + epsilon;
[weights1 biases1] =vector_to_cellArray(weights, biases,thetaplus);
[AL forward_caches activation_caches droputMat] = forwardPropagationDeep(X', weights1, biases1, keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc);
J_plus(i) = computeCost(AL, Y', outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc);

# Compute J_minus[i].
thetaminus = parameters_values;
thetaminus(i,1) = thetaminus(i,1) - epsilon ;
[weights1 biases1] = vector_to_cellArray(weights, biases,thetaminus);
[AL forward_caches activation_caches droputMat]  = forwardPropagationDeep(X',weights1, biases1, keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu",outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc);
J_minus(i) = computeCost(AL, Y', outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc);

endfor

#Compute L2Norm
difference =  numerator/denominator;
disp(difference);
#Check difference
if difference > 1e-04
printf("There is a mistake in the implementation ");
disp(difference);
else
printf("The implementation works perfectly");
disp(difference);
endif
disp(weights1);
disp(biases1);
disp(weights2);
disp(biases2);

0.69315
1.4893e-005
The implementation works perfectly 1.4893e-005
{
[1,1] =
5.0349e-005 2.1323e-005
8.8632e-007 1.8231e-006
9.3784e-005 1.0057e-004
1.0875e-004 -1.9529e-007
5.4502e-005 3.2721e-005
[1,2] =
1.0567e-005 6.0615e-005 4.6004e-005 1.3977e-004 1.0405e-004
}
{
[1,1] =
-1.8716e-005
1.1309e-009
4.7686e-005
1.2051e-005
-1.4612e-005
[1,2] = 9.5808e-006
}
{
[1,1] =
5.0348e-005 2.1320e-005
8.8485e-007 1.8219e-006
9.3784e-005 1.0057e-004
1.0875e-004 -1.9762e-007
5.4502e-005 3.2723e-005
[1,2] =
[1,2] =
1.0565e-005 6.0614e-005 4.6007e-005 1.3977e-004 1.0405e-004
}
{
[1,1] =
-1.8713e-005
1.1102e-009
4.7687e-005
1.2048e-005
-1.4609e-005
[1,2] = 9.5790e-006
}


## 1.3b Gradient Check – Softmax Activation – Octave

source("DL8functions.m")

# Setup the data
X=data(:,1:2);
Y=data(:,3);
# Set the layer dimensions
layersDimensions = [2 3  3];
[weights biases] = initializeDeepModel(layersDimensions);
# Run forward prop
[AL forward_caches activation_caches droputMat] = forwardPropagationDeep(X', weights, biases,keep_prob=1,
hiddenActivationFunc="relu", outputActivationFunc="softmax");
# Compute cost
cost = computeCost(AL, Y',outputActivationFunc=outputActivationFunc,numClasses=layersDimensions(size(layersDimensions)(2)));
disp(cost);
# Perform backward prop
hiddenActivationFunc="relu", outputActivationFunc="softmax",
numClasses=layersDimensions(size(layersDimensions)(2)));

#Take transpose of last layer for Softmax
L=size(weights)(2);
outputActivationFunc="softmax",numClasses=layersDimensions(size(layersDimensions)(2)));

 1.0986
The implementation works perfectly  2.0021e-005
{
[1,1] =
-7.1590e-005  4.1375e-005
-1.9494e-004  -5.2014e-005
-1.4554e-004  5.1699e-005
[1,2] =
3.3129e-004  1.9806e-004  -1.5662e-005
-4.9692e-004  -3.7756e-004  -8.2318e-005
1.6562e-004  1.7950e-004  9.7980e-005
}
{
[1,1] =
-3.0856e-005
-3.3321e-004
-3.8197e-004
[1,2] =
1.2046e-006
2.9259e-007
-1.4972e-006
}
{
[1,1] =
-7.1586e-005  4.1377e-005
-1.9494e-004  -5.2013e-005
-1.4554e-004  5.1695e-005
3.3129e-004  1.9806e-004  -1.5664e-005
-4.9692e-004  -3.7756e-004  -8.2316e-005
1.6562e-004  1.7950e-004  9.7979e-005
}
{
[1,1] =
-3.0852e-005
-3.3321e-004
-3.8197e-004
[1,2] =
1.1902e-006
2.8200e-007
-1.4644e-006
}


## 2.1 Tip for tuning hyperparameters

Deep Learning Networks come with a large number of hyper parameters which require tuning. The hyper parameters are

1. $\alpha$ -learning rate
2. Number of layers
3. Number of hidden units
4. Number of iterations
5. Momentum – $\beta$ – 0.9
6. RMSProp – $\beta_{1}$ – 0.9
7. Adam – $\beta_{1}$,$\beta_{2}$ and $\epsilon$
8. learning rate decay
9. mini batch size
10. Initialization method – He, Xavier
11. Regularization

– Among the above the most critical is learning rate $\alpha$ . Rather than just trying out random values, it may help to try out values on a logarithmic scale. So we could try out values -0.01,0.1,1.0,10 etc. If we find that the cost is between 0.01 and 0.1 we could use a technique similar to binary search or bisection, so we can try 0.01, 0.05. If we need to be bigger than 0.01 and 0.05 we could try 0.25  and then keep halving the distance etc.
– The performance of Momentum and RMSProp are very good and work well with values 0.9. Even with this, it is better to try out values of 1-$\beta$ in the logarithmic range. So 1-$\beta$ could 0.001,0.01,0.1 and hence $\beta$ would be 0.999,0.99 or 0.9
– Increasing the number of hidden units or number of hidden layers need to be done gradually. I have noticed that increasing number of hidden layers heavily does not improve performance and sometimes degrades it.
– Sometimes, I tend to increase the number of iterations if I think I see a steady decrease in the cost for a certain learning rate
– It may also help to add learning rate decay if you see there is an oscillation while it decreases.
– Xavier and He initializations also help in a fast convergence and are worth trying out.

## 3.1 Final thoughts

As I come to a close in this Deep Learning Series from first principles in Python, R and Octave, I must admit that I learnt a lot in the process.

* Building a L-layer, vectorized Deep Learning Network in Python, R and Octave was extremely challenging but very rewarding
* One benefit of building vectorized versions in Python, R and Octave was that I was looking at each function that I was implementing thrice, and hence I was able to fix any bugs in any of the languages
* In addition since I built the generic L-Layer DL network with all the bells and whistles, layer by layer I further had an opportunity to look at all the functions in each successive post.
* Each language has its advantages and disadvantages. From the performance perspective I think Python is the best, followed by Octave and then R
* Interesting, I noticed that even if small bugs creep into your implementation, the DL network does learn and does generate a valid set of weights and biases, however this may not be an optimum solution. In one case of an inadvertent bug, I was not updating the weights in the final layer of the DL network. Yet, using all the other layers, the DL network was able to come with a reasonable solution (maybe like random dropout, remaining units can still learn the data!)
* Having said that, the Gradient Check method discussed and implemented in this post can be very useful in ironing out bugs.

## Conclusion

These last couple of months when I was writing the posts and the also churning up the code in Python, R and Octave were  very hectic. There have been times when I found that implementations of some function to be extremely demanding and I almost felt like giving up. Other times, I have spent quite some time on an intractable DL network which would not respond to changes in hyper-parameters. All in all, it was a great learning experience. I would suggest that you start from my first post Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave-Part 1 and work your way up. Feel free to take the code apart and try out things. That is the only way you will learn.

Hope you had as much fun as I had. Stay tuned. I will be back!!!

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# Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 7

Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity. – Prof Andrew Ng

Most of human and animal learning is unsupervised learning. If intelligence was a cake, unsupervised learning would be the cake, supervised learning would be the icing on the cake, and reinforcement learning would be the cherry on the cake. We know how to make the icing and the cherry, but we don’t know how to make the cake. We need to solve the unsupervised learning problem before we can even think of getting to true AI.  – Yann LeCun, March 14, 2016 (Facebook)

# Introduction

In this post ‘Deep Learning from first principles with Python, R and Octave-Part 7’, I implement optimization methods used in Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) to speed up the convergence. Specifically I discuss and implement the following gradient descent optimization techniques

b.Learning rate decay
c. Momentum method
d. RMSProp

This post, further enhances my generic  L-Layer Deep Learning Network implementations in  vectorized Python, R and Octave to also include the Stochastic Gradient Descent optimization techniques. You can clone/download the code from Github at DeepLearning-Part7

Incidentally, a good discussion of the various optimizations methods used in Stochastic Gradient Optimization techniques can be seen at Sebastian Ruder’s blog

Note: In the vectorized Python, R and Octave implementations below only a  1024 random training samples were used. This was to reduce the computation time. You are free to use the entire data set (60000 training data) for the computation.

This post is largely based of on Prof Andrew Ng’s Deep Learning Specialization.  All the above optimization techniques for Stochastic Gradient Descent are based on the technique of exponentially weighted average method. So for example if we had some time series data $\theta_{1},\theta_{2},\theta_{3}... \theta_{t}$ then we we can represent the exponentially average value at time ‘t’ as a sequence of the the previous value $v_{t-1}$ and $\theta_{t}$ as shown below
$v_{t} = \beta v_{t-1} + (1-\beta)\theta_{t}$

Here $v_{t}$ represent the average of the data set over $\frac {1}{1-\beta}$  By choosing different values of $\beta$, we can average over a larger or smaller number of the data points.
We can write the equations as follows
$v_{t} = \beta v_{t-1} + (1-\beta)\theta_{t}$
$v_{t-1} = \beta v_{t-2} + (1-\beta)\theta_{t-1}$
$v_{t-2} = \beta v_{t-3} + (1-\beta)\theta_{t-2}$
and
$v_{t-k} = \beta v_{t-(k+1))} + (1-\beta)\theta_{t-k}$
By substitution we have
$v_{t} = (1-\beta)\theta_{t} + \beta v_{t-1}$
$v_{t} = (1-\beta)\theta_{t} + \beta ((1-\beta)\theta_{t-1}) + \beta v_{t-2}$
$v_{t} = (1-\beta)\theta_{t} + \beta ((1-\beta)\theta_{t-1}) + \beta ((1-\beta)\theta_{t-2}+ \beta v_{t-3} )$

Hence it can be seen that the $v_{t}$ is the weighted sum over the previous values $\theta_{k}$, which is an exponentially decaying function.

Checkout my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles: Second Edition – In vectorized Python, R and Octave’. My book starts with the implementation of a simple 2-layer Neural Network and works its way to a generic L-Layer Deep Learning Network, with all the bells and whistles. The derivations have been discussed in detail. The code has been extensively commented and included in its entirety in the Appendix sections. My book is available on Amazon as paperback ($18.99) and in kindle version($9.99/Rs449).

You may also like my companion book “Practical Machine Learning with R and Python- Machine Learning in stereo” available in Amazon in paperback($9.99) and Kindle($6.99) versions. This book is ideal for a quick reference of the various ML functions and associated measurements in both R and Python which are essential to delve deep into Deep Learning.

## 1.1a. Stochastic Gradient Descent (Vanilla) – Python

import numpy as np
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import sklearn.linear_model
import pandas as pd
import sklearn
import sklearn.datasets

lbls=[]
pxls=[]
for i in range(60000):
l,p=training[i]
lbls.append(l)
pxls.append(p)
labels= np.array(lbls)
pixels=np.array(pxls)
y=labels.reshape(-1,1)
X=pixels.reshape(pixels.shape[0],-1)
X1=X.T
Y1=y.T

# Create  a list of 1024 random numbers.
permutation = list(np.random.permutation(2**10))
# Subset 16384 from the data
X2 = X1[:, permutation]
Y2 = Y1[:, permutation].reshape((1,2**10))
# Set the layer dimensions
layersDimensions=[784, 15,9,10]
# Perform SGD with regular gradient descent
parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X2, Y2, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",learningRate = 0.01 ,
optimizer="gd",
mini_batch_size =512, num_epochs = 1000, print_cost = True,figure="fig1.png")


## 1.1b. Stochastic Gradient Descent (Vanilla) – R

source("mnist.R")
source("DLfunctions7.R")
x <- t(train$x) X <- x[,1:60000] y <-train$y
y1 <- y[1:60000]
y2 <- as.matrix(y1)
Y=t(y2)

# Subset 1024 random samples from MNIST
permutation = c(sample(2^10))
# Randomly shuffle the training data
X1 = X[, permutation]
y1 = Y[1, permutation]
y2 <- as.matrix(y1)
Y1=t(y2)
# Set layer dimensions
layersDimensions=c(784, 15,9, 10)
# Perform SGD with regular gradient descent
retvalsSGD= L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X1, Y1, layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='tanh',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.05,
optimizer="gd",
mini_batch_size = 512,
num_epochs = 5000,
print_cost = True)
#Plot the cost vs iterations
iterations <- seq(0,5000,1000)
costs=retvalsSGD$costs df=data.frame(iterations,costs) ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() + geom_line(color="blue") + ggtitle("Costs vs no of epochs") + xlab("No of epochss") + ylab("Cost") ## 1.1c. Stochastic Gradient Descent (Vanilla) – Octave source("DL7functions.m") #Load and read MNIST load('./mnist/mnist.txt.gz'); #Create a random permutatation from 1024 permutation = randperm(1024); disp(length(permutation)); # Use this 1024 as the batch X=trainX(permutation,:); Y=trainY(permutation,:); # Set layer dimensions layersDimensions=[784, 15, 9, 10]; # Perform SGD with regular gradient descent [weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X', Y', layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="softmax", learningRate = 0.005, lrDecay=true, decayRate=1, lambd=0, keep_prob=1, optimizer="gd", beta=0.9, beta1=0.9, beta2=0.999, epsilon=10^-8, mini_batch_size = 512, num_epochs = 5000); plotCostVsEpochs(5000,costs);  ## 2.1. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Learning rate decay Since in Stochastic Gradient Descent,with each epoch, we use slight different samples, the gradient descent algorithm, oscillates across the ravines and wanders around the minima, when a fixed learning rate is used. In this technique of ‘learning rate decay’ the learning rate is slowly decreased with the number of epochs and becomes smaller and smaller, so that gradient descent can take smaller steps towards the minima. There are several techniques employed in learning rate decay a) Exponential decay: $\alpha = decayRate^{epochNum} *\alpha_{0}$ b) 1/t decay : $\alpha = \frac{\alpha_{0}}{1 + decayRate*epochNum}$ c) $\alpha = \frac {decayRate}{\sqrt(epochNum)}*\alpha_{0}$ In my implementation I have used the ‘exponential decay’. The code snippet for Python is shown below if lrDecay == True: learningRate = np.power(decayRate,(num_epochs/1000)) * learningRate  ## 2.1a. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Learning rate decay – Python import numpy as np import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import sklearn.linear_model import pandas as pd import sklearn import sklearn.datasets exec(open("DLfunctions7.py").read()) exec(open("load_mnist.py").read()) # Read the MNIST data training=list(read(dataset='training',path=".\\mnist")) test=list(read(dataset='testing',path=".\\mnist")) lbls=[] pxls=[] for i in range(60000): l,p=training[i] lbls.append(l) pxls.append(p) labels= np.array(lbls) pixels=np.array(pxls) y=labels.reshape(-1,1) X=pixels.reshape(pixels.shape[0],-1) X1=X.T Y1=y.T # Create a list of random numbers of 1024 permutation = list(np.random.permutation(2**10)) # Subset 16384 from the data X2 = X1[:, permutation] Y2 = Y1[:, permutation].reshape((1,2**10)) # Set layer dimensions layersDimensions=[784, 15,9,10] # Perform SGD with learning rate decay parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X2, Y2, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="softmax", learningRate = 0.01 , lrDecay=True, decayRate=0.9999, optimizer="gd", mini_batch_size =512, num_epochs = 1000, print_cost = True,figure="fig2.png") ## 2.1b. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Learning rate decay – R source("mnist.R") source("DLfunctions7.R") # Read and load MNIST load_mnist() x <- t(train$x)
X <- x[,1:60000]
y <-train$y y1 <- y[1:60000] y2 <- as.matrix(y1) Y=t(y2) # Subset 1024 random samples from MNIST permutation = c(sample(2^10)) # Randomly shuffle the training data X1 = X[, permutation] y1 = Y[1, permutation] y2 <- as.matrix(y1) Y1=t(y2) # Set layer dimensions layersDimensions=c(784, 15,9, 10) # Perform SGD with Learning rate decay retvalsSGD= L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X1, Y1, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='tanh', outputActivationFunc="softmax", learningRate = 0.05, lrDecay=TRUE, decayRate=0.9999, optimizer="gd", mini_batch_size = 512, num_epochs = 5000, print_cost = True) #Plot the cost vs iterations iterations <- seq(0,5000,1000) costs=retvalsSGD$costs
df=data.frame(iterations,costs)
ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() + geom_line(color="blue") +
ggtitle("Costs vs number of epochs") + xlab("No of epochs") + ylab("Cost")

## 2.1c. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Learning rate decay – Octave

source("DL7functions.m")
#Create a random permutatation from 1024
permutation = randperm(1024);
disp(length(permutation));

# Use this 1024 as the batch
X=trainX(permutation,:);
Y=trainY(permutation,:);

# Set layer dimensions
layersDimensions=[784, 15, 9, 10];
# Perform SGD with regular Learning rate decay
[weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X', Y', layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.01,
lrDecay=true,
decayRate=0.999,
lambd=0,
keep_prob=1,
optimizer="gd",
beta=0.9,
beta1=0.9,
beta2=0.999,
epsilon=10^-8,
mini_batch_size = 512,
num_epochs = 5000);
plotCostVsEpochs(5000,costs)


## 3.1. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum

Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum uses the exponentially weighted average method discusses above and more generally moves faster into the ravine than across it. The equations are
$v_{dW}^l = \beta v_{dW}^l + (1-\beta)dW^{l}$
$v_{db}^l = \beta v_{db}^l + (1-\beta)db^{l}$
$W^{l} = W^{l} - \alpha v_{dW}^l$
$b^{l} = b^{l} - \alpha v_{db}^l$ where
$v_{dW}$ and $v_{db}$ are the momentum terms which are exponentially weighted with the corresponding gradients ‘dW’ and ‘db’ at the corresponding layer ‘l’ The code snippet for Stochastic Gradient Descent with momentum in R is shown below

# Perform Gradient Descent with momentum
# Input : Weights and biases
#       : beta
#       : learning rate
#       : outputActivationFunc - Activation function at hidden layer sigmoid/softmax
#output : Updated weights after 1 iteration

L = length(parameters)/2 # number of layers in the neural network
# Update rule for each parameter. Use a for loop.
for(l in 1:(L-1)){
# Compute velocities
# v['dWk'] = beta *v['dWk'] + (1-beta)*dWk
v[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]] = beta*v[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]] +
v[[paste("db",l, sep="")]] = beta*v[[paste("db",l, sep="")]] +

parameters[[paste("W",l,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("W",l,sep="")]] -
learningRate* v[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]]
parameters[[paste("b",l,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("b",l,sep="")]] -
learningRate* v[[paste("db",l, sep="")]]
}
# Compute for the Lth layer
if(outputActivationFunc=="sigmoid"){
v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = beta*v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] +
v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = beta*v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] +

parameters[[paste("W",L,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("W",L,sep="")]] -
learningRate* v[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]]
parameters[[paste("b",L,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("b",L,sep="")]] -
learningRate* v[[paste("db",l, sep="")]]

}else if (outputActivationFunc=="softmax"){
v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = beta*v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] +
v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = beta*v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] +
parameters[[paste("W",L,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("W",L,sep="")]] -
parameters[[paste("b",L,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("b",L,sep="")]] -
}
return(parameters)
}

## 3.1a. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum- Python

import numpy as np
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import sklearn.linear_model
import pandas as pd
import sklearn
import sklearn.datasets
lbls=[]
pxls=[]
for i in range(60000):
l,p=training[i]
lbls.append(l)
pxls.append(p)
labels= np.array(lbls)
pixels=np.array(pxls)
y=labels.reshape(-1,1)
X=pixels.reshape(pixels.shape[0],-1)
X1=X.T
Y1=y.T

# Create  a list of random numbers of 1024
permutation = list(np.random.permutation(2**10))
# Subset 16384 from the data
X2 = X1[:, permutation]
Y2 = Y1[:, permutation].reshape((1,2**10))
layersDimensions=[784, 15,9,10]
# Perform SGD with momentum
parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X2, Y2, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",learningRate = 0.01 ,
optimizer="momentum", beta=0.9,
mini_batch_size =512, num_epochs = 1000, print_cost = True,figure="fig3.png")

## 3.1b. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum- R

source("mnist.R")
source("DLfunctions7.R")
x <- t(train$x) X <- x[,1:60000] y <-train$y
y1 <- y[1:60000]
y2 <- as.matrix(y1)
Y=t(y2)

# Subset 1024 random samples from MNIST
permutation = c(sample(2^10))
# Randomly shuffle the training data
X1 = X[, permutation]
y1 = Y[1, permutation]
y2 <- as.matrix(y1)
Y1=t(y2)
layersDimensions=c(784, 15,9, 10)
# Perform SGD with momentum
retvalsSGD= L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X1, Y1, layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='tanh',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.05,
optimizer="momentum",
beta=0.9,
mini_batch_size = 512,
num_epochs = 5000,
print_cost = True)


#Plot the cost vs iterations
iterations <- seq(0,5000,1000)
costs=retvalsSGD$costs df=data.frame(iterations,costs) ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() + geom_line(color="blue") + ggtitle("Costs vs number of epochs") + xlab("No of epochs") + ylab("Cost") ## 3.1c. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum- Octave source("DL7functions.m") #Load and read MNIST load('./mnist/mnist.txt.gz'); #Create a random permutatation from 60K permutation = randperm(1024); disp(length(permutation)); # Use this 1024 as the batch X=trainX(permutation,:); Y=trainY(permutation,:); # Set layer dimensions layersDimensions=[784, 15, 9, 10]; # Perform SGD with Momentum [weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X', Y', layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="softmax", learningRate = 0.01, lrDecay=false, decayRate=1, lambd=0, keep_prob=1, optimizer="momentum", beta=0.9, beta1=0.9, beta2=0.999, epsilon=10^-8, mini_batch_size = 512, num_epochs = 5000); plotCostVsEpochs(5000,costs)  ## 4.1. Stochastic Gradient Descent with RMSProp Stochastic Gradient Descent with RMSProp tries to move faster towards the minima while dampening the oscillations across the ravine. The equations are $s_{dW}^l = \beta_{1} s_{dW}^l + (1-\beta_{1})(dW^{l})^{2}$ $s_{db}^l = \beta_{1} s_{db}^l + (1-\beta_{1})(db^{l})^2$ $W^{l} = W^{l} - \frac {\alpha s_{dW}^l}{\sqrt (s_{dW}^l + \epsilon) }$ $b^{l} = b^{l} - \frac {\alpha s_{db}^l}{\sqrt (s_{db}^l + \epsilon) }$ where $s_{dW}$ and $s_{db}$ are the RMSProp terms which are exponentially weighted with the corresponding gradients ‘dW’ and ‘db’ at the corresponding layer ‘l’ The code snippet in Octave is shown below # Update parameters with RMSProp # Input : parameters # : gradients # : s # : beta # : learningRate # : #output : Updated parameters RMSProp function [weights biases] = gradientDescentWithRMSProp(weights, biases,gradsDW,gradsDB, sdW, sdB, beta1, epsilon, learningRate,outputActivationFunc="sigmoid") L = size(weights)(2); # number of layers in the neural network # Update rule for each parameter. for l=1:(L-1) sdW{l} = beta1*sdW{l} + (1 -beta1) * gradsDW{l} .* gradsDW{l}; sdB{l} = beta1*sdB{l} + (1 -beta1) * gradsDB{l} .* gradsDB{l}; weights{l} = weights{l} - learningRate* gradsDW{l} ./ sqrt(sdW{l} + epsilon); biases{l} = biases{l} - learningRate* gradsDB{l} ./ sqrt(sdB{l} + epsilon); endfor if (strcmp(outputActivationFunc,"sigmoid")) sdW{L} = beta1*sdW{L} + (1 -beta1) * gradsDW{L} .* gradsDW{L}; sdB{L} = beta1*sdB{L} + (1 -beta1) * gradsDB{L} .* gradsDB{L}; weights{L} = weights{L} -learningRate* gradsDW{L} ./ sqrt(sdW{L} +epsilon); biases{L} = biases{L} -learningRate* gradsDB{L} ./ sqrt(sdB{L} + epsilon); elseif (strcmp(outputActivationFunc,"softmax")) sdW{L} = beta1*sdW{L} + (1 -beta1) * gradsDW{L}' .* gradsDW{L}'; sdB{L} = beta1*sdB{L} + (1 -beta1) * gradsDB{L}' .* gradsDB{L}'; weights{L} = weights{L} -learningRate* gradsDW{L}' ./ sqrt(sdW{L} +epsilon); biases{L} = biases{L} -learningRate* gradsDB{L}' ./ sqrt(sdB{L} + epsilon); endif end  ## 4.1a. Stochastic Gradient Descent with RMSProp – Python import numpy as np import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import sklearn.linear_model import pandas as pd import sklearn import sklearn.datasets exec(open("DLfunctions7.py").read()) exec(open("load_mnist.py").read()) # Read and load MNIST training=list(read(dataset='training',path=".\\mnist")) test=list(read(dataset='testing',path=".\\mnist")) lbls=[] pxls=[] for i in range(60000): l,p=training[i] lbls.append(l) pxls.append(p) labels= np.array(lbls) pixels=np.array(pxls) y=labels.reshape(-1,1) X=pixels.reshape(pixels.shape[0],-1) X1=X.T Y1=y.T print("X1=",X1.shape) print("y1=",Y1.shape) # Create a list of random numbers of 1024 permutation = list(np.random.permutation(2**10)) # Subset 16384 from the data X2 = X1[:, permutation] Y2 = Y1[:, permutation].reshape((1,2**10)) layersDimensions=[784, 15,9,10] # Use SGD with RMSProp parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X2, Y2, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="softmax",learningRate = 0.01 , optimizer="rmsprop", beta1=0.7, epsilon=1e-8, mini_batch_size =512, num_epochs = 1000, print_cost = True,figure="fig4.png") ## 4.1b. Stochastic Gradient Descent with RMSProp – R source("mnist.R") source("DLfunctions7.R") load_mnist() x <- t(train$x)
X <- x[,1:60000]
y <-train$y y1 <- y[1:60000] y2 <- as.matrix(y1) Y=t(y2) # Subset 1024 random samples from MNIST permutation = c(sample(2^10)) # Randomly shuffle the training data X1 = X[, permutation] y1 = Y[1, permutation] y2 <- as.matrix(y1) Y1=t(y2) layersDimensions=c(784, 15,9, 10) #Perform SGD with RMSProp retvalsSGD= L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X1, Y1, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='tanh', outputActivationFunc="softmax", learningRate = 0.001, optimizer="rmsprop", beta1=0.9, epsilon=10^-8, mini_batch_size = 512, num_epochs = 5000 , print_cost = True) #Plot the cost vs iterations iterations <- seq(0,5000,1000) costs=retvalsSGD$costs
df=data.frame(iterations,costs)
ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() + geom_line(color="blue") +
ggtitle("Costs vs number of epochs") + xlab("No of epochs") + ylab("Cost")


## 4.1c. Stochastic Gradient Descent with RMSProp – Octave

source("DL7functions.m")
#Create a random permutatation from 1024
permutation = randperm(1024);

# Use this 1024 as the batch
X=trainX(permutation,:);
Y=trainY(permutation,:);

# Set layer dimensions
layersDimensions=[784, 15, 9, 10];
#Perform SGD with RMSProp
[weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X', Y', layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.005,
lrDecay=false,
decayRate=1,
lambd=0,
keep_prob=1,
optimizer="rmsprop",
beta=0.9,
beta1=0.9,
beta2=0.999,
epsilon=1,
mini_batch_size = 512,
num_epochs = 5000);
plotCostVsEpochs(5000,costs)


Adaptive Moment Estimate is a combination of the momentum (1st moment) and RMSProp(2nd moment). The equations for Adam are below
$v_{dW}^l = \beta_{1} v_{dW}^l + (1-\beta_{1})dW^{l}$
$v_{db}^l = \beta_{1} v_{db}^l + (1-\beta_{1})db^{l}$
The bias corrections for the 1st moment
$vCorrected_{dW}^l= \frac {v_{dW}^l}{1 - \beta_{1}^{t}}$
$vCorrected_{db}^l= \frac {v_{db}^l}{1 - \beta_{1}^{t}}$

Similarly the moving average for the 2nd moment- RMSProp
$s_{dW}^l = \beta_{2} s_{dW}^l + (1-\beta_{2})(dW^{l})^2$
$s_{db}^l = \beta_{2} s_{db}^l + (1-\beta_{2})(db^{l})^2$
The bias corrections for the 2nd moment
$sCorrected_{dW}^l= \frac {s_{dW}^l}{1 - \beta_{2}^{t}}$
$sCorrected_{db}^l= \frac {s_{db}^l}{1 - \beta_{2}^{t}}$

$W^{l} = W^{l} - \frac {\alpha vCorrected_{dW}^l}{\sqrt (s_{dW}^l + \epsilon) }$
$b^{l} = b^{l} - \frac {\alpha vCorrected_{db}^l}{\sqrt (s_{db}^l + \epsilon) }$
The code snippet of Adam in R is included below

# Perform Gradient Descent with Adam
# Input : Weights and biases
#       : beta1
#       : epsilon
#       : learning rate
#       : outputActivationFunc - Activation function at hidden layer sigmoid/softmax
#output : Updated weights after 1 iteration
beta1=0.9, beta2=0.999, epsilon=10^-8, learningRate=0.1,outputActivationFunc="sigmoid"){

L = length(parameters)/2 # number of layers in the neural network
v_corrected <- list()
s_corrected <- list()
# Update rule for each parameter. Use a for loop.
for(l in 1:(L-1)){
# v['dWk'] = beta *v['dWk'] + (1-beta)*dWk
v[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]] = beta1*v[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]] +
v[[paste("db",l, sep="")]] = beta1*v[[paste("db",l, sep="")]] +

# Compute bias-corrected first moment estimate.
v_corrected[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]] = v[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]]/(1-beta1^t)
v_corrected[[paste("db",l, sep="")]] = v[[paste("db",l, sep="")]]/(1-beta1^t)

# Element wise multiply of gradients
s[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]] = beta2*s[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]] +
s[[paste("db",l, sep="")]] = beta2*s[[paste("db",l, sep="")]] +

# Compute bias-corrected second moment estimate.
s_corrected[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]] = s[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]]/(1-beta2^t)
s_corrected[[paste("db",l, sep="")]] = s[[paste("db",l, sep="")]]/(1-beta2^t)

# Update parameters.
d1=sqrt(s_corrected[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]]+epsilon)
d2=sqrt(s_corrected[[paste("db",l, sep="")]]+epsilon)

parameters[[paste("W",l,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("W",l,sep="")]] -
learningRate * v_corrected[[paste("dW",l, sep="")]]/d1
parameters[[paste("b",l,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("b",l,sep="")]] -
learningRate*v_corrected[[paste("db",l, sep="")]]/d2
}
# Compute for the Lth layer
if(outputActivationFunc=="sigmoid"){
v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = beta1*v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] +
v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = beta1*v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] +

# Compute bias-corrected first moment estimate.
v_corrected[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]]/(1-beta1^t)
v_corrected[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]]/(1-beta1^t)

# Element wise multiply of gradients
s[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = beta2*s[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] +
s[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = beta2*s[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] +

# Compute bias-corrected second moment estimate.
s_corrected[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = s[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]]/(1-beta2^t)
s_corrected[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = s[[paste("db",L, sep="")]]/(1-beta2^t)

# Update parameters.
d1=sqrt(s_corrected[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]]+epsilon)
d2=sqrt(s_corrected[[paste("db",L, sep="")]]+epsilon)

parameters[[paste("W",L,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("W",L,sep="")]] -
learningRate * v_corrected[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]]/d1
parameters[[paste("b",L,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("b",L,sep="")]] -
learningRate*v_corrected[[paste("db",L, sep="")]]/d2

}else if (outputActivationFunc=="softmax"){
v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = beta1*v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] +
v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = beta1*v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] +

# Compute bias-corrected first moment estimate.
v_corrected[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = v[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]]/(1-beta1^t)
v_corrected[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = v[[paste("db",L, sep="")]]/(1-beta1^t)

# Element wise multiply of gradients
s[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = beta2*s[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] +
s[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = beta2*s[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] +

# Compute bias-corrected second moment estimate.
s_corrected[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]] = s[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]]/(1-beta2^t)
s_corrected[[paste("db",L, sep="")]] = s[[paste("db",L, sep="")]]/(1-beta2^t)

# Update parameters.
d1=sqrt(s_corrected[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]]+epsilon)
d2=sqrt(s_corrected[[paste("db",L, sep="")]]+epsilon)

parameters[[paste("W",L,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("W",L,sep="")]] -
learningRate * v_corrected[[paste("dW",L, sep="")]]/d1
parameters[[paste("b",L,sep="")]] = parameters[[paste("b",L,sep="")]] -
learningRate*v_corrected[[paste("db",L, sep="")]]/d2
}
return(parameters)
}


import numpy as np
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import sklearn.linear_model
import pandas as pd
import sklearn
import sklearn.datasets
lbls=[]
pxls=[]
print(len(training))
#for i in range(len(training)):
for i in range(60000):
l,p=training[i]
lbls.append(l)
pxls.append(p)
labels= np.array(lbls)
pixels=np.array(pxls)
y=labels.reshape(-1,1)
X=pixels.reshape(pixels.shape[0],-1)
X1=X.T
Y1=y.T

# Create  a list of random numbers of 1024
permutation = list(np.random.permutation(2**10))
# Subset 16384 from the data
X2 = X1[:, permutation]
Y2 = Y1[:, permutation].reshape((1,2**10))
layersDimensions=[784, 15,9,10]
parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X2, Y2, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",learningRate = 0.01 ,
optimizer="adam", beta1=0.9, beta2=0.9, epsilon = 1e-8,
mini_batch_size =512, num_epochs = 1000, print_cost = True, figure="fig5.png")

source("mnist.R")
source("DLfunctions7.R")
x <- t(train$x) X <- x[,1:60000] y <-train$y
y1 <- y[1:60000]
y2 <- as.matrix(y1)
Y=t(y2)

# Subset 1024 random samples from MNIST
permutation = c(sample(2^10))
# Randomly shuffle the training data
X1 = X[, permutation]
y1 = Y[1, permutation]
y2 <- as.matrix(y1)
Y1=t(y2)
layersDimensions=c(784, 15,9, 10)
retvalsSGD= L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X1, Y1, layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='tanh',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.005,
beta1=0.7,
beta2=0.9,
epsilon=10^-8,
mini_batch_size = 512,
num_epochs = 5000 ,
print_cost = True)
#Plot the cost vs iterations
iterations <- seq(0,5000,1000)
costs=retvalsSGD$costs df=data.frame(iterations,costs) ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() + geom_line(color="blue") + ggtitle("Costs vs number of epochs") + xlab("No of epochs") + ylab("Cost") ## 5.1c. Stochastic Gradient Descent with Adam – Octave source("DL7functions.m") load('./mnist/mnist.txt.gz'); #Create a random permutatation from 1024 permutation = randperm(1024); disp(length(permutation)); # Use this 1024 as the batch X=trainX(permutation,:); Y=trainY(permutation,:); # Set layer dimensions layersDimensions=[784, 15, 9, 10]; # Note the high value for epsilon. #Otherwise GD with Adam does not seem to converge # Perform SGD with Adam [weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X', Y', layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="softmax", learningRate = 0.1, lrDecay=false, decayRate=1, lambd=0, keep_prob=1, optimizer="adam", beta=0.9, beta1=0.9, beta2=0.9, epsilon=100, mini_batch_size = 512, num_epochs = 5000); plotCostVsEpochs(5000,costs)  Conclusion: In this post I discuss and implement several Stochastic Gradient Descent optimization methods. The implementation of these methods enhance my already existing generic L-Layer Deep Learning Network implementation in vectorized Python, R and Octave, which I had discussed in the previous post in this series on Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave. Check it out, if you haven’t already. As already mentioned the code for this post can be cloned/forked from Github at DeepLearning-Part7 Watch this space! I’ll be back! To see all post click Index of posts # Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 5 ## Introduction a. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. b. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. c. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.  Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  Arthur C Clarke.  In this 5th part on Deep Learning from first Principles in Python, R and Octave, I solve the MNIST data set of handwritten digits (shown below), from the basics. To do this, I construct a L-Layer, vectorized Deep Learning implementation in Python, R and Octave from scratch and classify the MNIST data set. The MNIST training data set contains 60000 handwritten digits from 0-9, and a test set of 10000 digits. MNIST, is a popular dataset for running Deep Learning tests, and has been rightfully termed as the ‘drosophila’ of Deep Learning, by none other than the venerable Prof Geoffrey Hinton. The ‘Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave’ series, so far included Part 1 , where I had implemented logistic regression as a simple Neural Network. Part 2 implemented the most elementary neural network with 1 hidden layer, but with any number of activation units in that layer, and a sigmoid activation at the output layer. This post, ‘Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 5’ largely builds upon Part3. in which I implemented a multi-layer Deep Learning network, with an arbitrary number of hidden layers and activation units per hidden layer and with the output layer was based on the sigmoid unit, for binary classification. In Part 4, I derive the Jacobian of a Softmax, the Cross entropy loss and the gradient equations for a multi-class Softmax classifier. I also implement a simple Neural Network using Softmax classifications in Python, R and Octave. In this post I combine Part 3 and Part 4 to to build a L-layer Deep Learning network, with arbitrary number of hidden layers and hidden units, which can do both binary (sigmoid) and multi-class (softmax) classification. Note: A detailed discussion of the derivation for multi-class clasification can be seen in my video presentation Neural Networks 5 The generic, vectorized L-Layer Deep Learning Network implementations in Python, R and Octave can be cloned/downloaded from GitHub at DeepLearning-Part5. This implementation allows for arbitrary number of hidden layers and hidden layer units. The activation function at the hidden layers can be one of sigmoid, relu and tanh (will be adding leaky relu soon). The output activation can be used for binary classification with the ‘sigmoid’, or multi-class classification with ‘softmax’. Feel free to download and play around with the code! I thought the exercise of combining the two parts(Part 3, & Part 4) would be a breeze. But it was anything but. Incorporating a Softmax classifier into the generic L-Layer Deep Learning model was a challenge. Moreover I found that I could not use the gradient descent on 60,000 training samples as my laptop ran out of memory. So I had to implement Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) for Python, R and Octave. In addition, I had to also implement the numerically stable version of Softmax, as the softmax and its derivative would result in NaNs. ### Numerically stable Softmax The Softmax function $S_{j} =\frac{e^{Z_{j}}}{\sum_{i}^{k}e^{Z_{i}}}$ can be numerically unstable because of the division of large exponentials. To handle this problem we have to implement stable Softmax function as below $S_{j} =\frac{e^{Z_{j}}}{\sum_{i}^{k}e^{Z_{i}}}$ $S_{j} =\frac{e^{Z_{j}}}{\sum_{i}^{k}e^{Z_{i}}} = \frac{Ce^{Z_{j}}}{C\sum_{i}^{k}e^{Z_{i}}} = \frac{e^{Z_{j}+log(C)}}{\sum_{i}^{k}e^{Z_{i}+log(C)}}$ Therefore $S_{j} = \frac{e^{Z_{j}+ D}}{\sum_{i}^{k}e^{Z_{i}+ D}}$ Here ‘D’ can be anything. A common choice is $D=-max(Z_{1},Z_{2},... Z_{k})$ Here is the stable Softmax implementation in Python # A numerically stable Softmax implementation def stableSoftmax(Z): #Compute the softmax of vector x in a numerically stable way. shiftZ = Z.T - np.max(Z.T,axis=1).reshape(-1,1) exp_scores = np.exp(shiftZ) # normalize them for each example A = exp_scores / np.sum(exp_scores, axis=1, keepdims=True) cache=Z return A,cache  While trying to create a L-Layer generic Deep Learning network in the 3 languages, I found it useful to ensure that the model executed correctly on smaller datasets. You can run into numerous problems while setting up the matrices, which becomes extremely difficult to debug. So in this post, I run the model on 2 smaller data for sets used in my earlier posts(Part 3 & Part4) , in each of the languages, before running the generic model on MNIST. Here is a fair warning. if you think you can dive directly into Deep Learning, with just some basic knowledge of Machine Learning, you are bound to run into serious issues. Moreover, your knowledge will be incomplete. It is essential that you have a good grasp of Machine and Statistical Learning, the different algorithms, the measures and metrics for selecting the models etc.It would help to be conversant with all the ML models, ML concepts, validation techniques, classification measures etc. Check out the internet/books for background. Checkout my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles: Second Edition – In vectorized Python, R and Octave’. My book starts with the implementation of a simple 2-layer Neural Network and works its way to a generic L-Layer Deep Learning Network, with all the bells and whistles. The derivations have been discussed in detail. The code has been extensively commented and included in its entirety in the Appendix sections. My book is available on Amazon as paperback ($18.99) and in kindle version($9.99/Rs449). You may also like my companion book “Practical Machine Learning with R and Python:Second Edition- Machine Learning in stereo” available in Amazon in paperback($10.99) and Kindle($7.99/Rs449) versions. This book is ideal for a quick reference of the various ML functions and associated measurements in both R and Python which are essential to delve deep into Deep Learning. ### 1. Random dataset with Sigmoid activation – Python This random data with 9 clusters, was used in my post Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 3 , and was used to test the complete L-layer Deep Learning network with Sigmoid activation. import numpy as np import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import pandas as pd from sklearn.datasets import make_classification, make_blobs exec(open("DLfunctions51.py").read()) # Cannot import in Rmd. # Create a random data set with 9 centeres X1, Y1 = make_blobs(n_samples = 400, n_features = 2, centers = 9,cluster_std = 1.3, random_state =4) #Create 2 classes Y1=Y1.reshape(400,1) Y1 = Y1 % 2 X2=X1.T Y2=Y1.T # Set the dimensions of L -layer DL network layersDimensions = [2, 9, 9,1] # 4-layer model # Execute DL network with hidden activation=relu and sigmoid output function parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel(X2, Y2, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="sigmoid",learningRate = 0.3,num_iterations = 2500, print_cost = True) ### 2. Spiral dataset with Softmax activation – Python The Spiral data was used in my post Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 4 and was used to test the complete L-layer Deep Learning network with multi-class Softmax activation at the output layer import numpy as np import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import pandas as pd from sklearn.datasets import make_classification, make_blobs exec(open("DLfunctions51.py").read()) # Create an input data set - Taken from CS231n Convolutional Neural networks # http://cs231n.github.io/neural-networks-case-study/ N = 100 # number of points per class D = 2 # dimensionality K = 3 # number of classes X = np.zeros((N*K,D)) # data matrix (each row = single example) y = np.zeros(N*K, dtype='uint8') # class labels for j in range(K): ix = range(N*j,N*(j+1)) r = np.linspace(0.0,1,N) # radius t = np.linspace(j*4,(j+1)*4,N) + np.random.randn(N)*0.2 # theta X[ix] = np.c_[r*np.sin(t), r*np.cos(t)] y[ix] = j X1=X.T Y1=y.reshape(-1,1).T numHidden=100 # No of hidden units in hidden layer numFeats= 2 # dimensionality numOutput = 3 # number of classes # Set the dimensions of the layers layersDimensions=[numFeats,numHidden,numOutput] parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel(X1, Y1, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="softmax",learningRate = 0.6,num_iterations = 9000, print_cost = True) ## Cost after iteration 0: 1.098759 ## Cost after iteration 1000: 0.112666 ## Cost after iteration 2000: 0.044351 ## Cost after iteration 3000: 0.027491 ## Cost after iteration 4000: 0.021898 ## Cost after iteration 5000: 0.019181 ## Cost after iteration 6000: 0.017832 ## Cost after iteration 7000: 0.017452 ## Cost after iteration 8000: 0.017161 ### 3. MNIST dataset with Softmax activation – Python In the code below, I execute Stochastic Gradient Descent on the MNIST training data of 60000. I used a mini-batch size of 1000. Python takes about 40 minutes to crunch the data. In addition I also compute the Confusion Matrix and other metrics like Accuracy, Precision and Recall for the MNIST data set. I get an accuracy of 0.93 on the MNIST test set. This accuracy can be improved by choosing more hidden layers or more hidden units and possibly also tweaking the learning rate and the number of epochs. import numpy as np import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import pandas as pd import math from sklearn.datasets import make_classification, make_blobs from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score exec(open("DLfunctions51.py").read()) exec(open("load_mnist.py").read()) # Read the MNIST training and test sets training=list(read(dataset='training',path=".\\mnist")) test=list(read(dataset='testing',path=".\\mnist")) # Create labels and pixel arrays lbls=[] pxls=[] print(len(training)) #for i in range(len(training)): for i in range(60000): l,p=training[i] lbls.append(l) pxls.append(p) labels= np.array(lbls) pixels=np.array(pxls) y=labels.reshape(-1,1) X=pixels.reshape(pixels.shape[0],-1) X1=X.T Y1=y.T # Set the dimensions of the layers. The MNIST data is 28x28 pixels= 784 # Hence input layer is 784. For the 10 digits the Softmax classifier # has to handle 10 outputs layersDimensions=[784, 15,9,10] # Works very well,lr=0.01,mini_batch =1000, total=20000 np.random.seed(1) costs = [] # Run Stochastic Gradient Descent with Learning Rate=0.01, mini batch size=1000 # number of epochs=3000 parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X1, Y1, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="softmax",learningRate = 0.01 ,mini_batch_size =1000, num_epochs = 3000, print_cost = True) # Compute the Confusion Matrix on Training set # Compute the training accuracy, precision and recall proba=predict_proba(parameters, X1,outputActivationFunc="softmax") #A2, cache = forwardPropagationDeep(X1, parameters) #proba=np.argmax(A2, axis=0).reshape(-1,1) a=confusion_matrix(Y1.T,proba) print(a) from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score print('Accuracy: {:.2f}'.format(accuracy_score(Y1.T, proba))) print('Precision: {:.2f}'.format(precision_score(Y1.T, proba,average="micro"))) print('Recall: {:.2f}'.format(recall_score(Y1.T, proba,average="micro"))) # Read the test data lbls=[] pxls=[] print(len(test)) for i in range(10000): l,p=test[i] lbls.append(l) pxls.append(p) testLabels= np.array(lbls) testPixels=np.array(pxls) ytest=testLabels.reshape(-1,1) Xtest=testPixels.reshape(testPixels.shape[0],-1) X1test=Xtest.T Y1test=ytest.T # Compute the Confusion Matrix on Test set # Compute the test accuracy, precision and recall probaTest=predict_proba(parameters, X1test,outputActivationFunc="softmax") #A2, cache = forwardPropagationDeep(X1, parameters) #proba=np.argmax(A2, axis=0).reshape(-1,1) a=confusion_matrix(Y1test.T,probaTest) print(a) from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score print('Accuracy: {:.2f}'.format(accuracy_score(Y1test.T, probaTest))) print('Precision: {:.2f}'.format(precision_score(Y1test.T, probaTest,average="micro"))) print('Recall: {:.2f}'.format(recall_score(Y1test.T, probaTest,average="micro")))  ##1. Confusion Matrix of Training set 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ## [[5854 0 19 2 10 7 0 1 24 6] ## [ 1 6659 30 10 5 3 0 14 20 0] ## [ 20 24 5805 18 6 11 2 32 37 3] ## [ 5 4 175 5783 1 27 1 58 60 17] ## [ 1 21 9 0 5780 0 5 2 12 12] ## [ 29 9 21 224 6 4824 18 17 245 28] ## [ 5 4 22 1 32 12 5799 0 43 0] ## [ 3 13 148 154 18 3 0 5883 4 39] ## [ 11 34 30 21 13 16 4 7 5703 12] ## [ 10 4 1 32 135 14 1 92 134 5526]] ##2. Accuracy, Precision, Recall of Training set ## Accuracy: 0.96 ## Precision: 0.96 ## Recall: 0.96 ##3. Confusion Matrix of Test set 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ## [[ 954 1 8 0 3 3 2 4 4 1] ## [ 0 1107 6 5 0 0 1 2 14 0] ## [ 11 7 957 10 5 0 5 20 16 1] ## [ 2 3 37 925 3 13 0 8 18 1] ## [ 2 6 1 1 944 0 7 3 4 14] ## [ 12 5 4 45 2 740 24 8 42 10] ## [ 8 4 4 2 16 9 903 0 12 0] ## [ 4 10 27 18 5 1 0 940 1 22] ## [ 11 13 6 13 9 10 7 2 900 3] ## [ 8 5 1 7 50 7 0 20 29 882]] ##4. Accuracy, Precision, Recall of Training set ## Accuracy: 0.93 ## Precision: 0.93 ## Recall: 0.93 ### 4. Random dataset with Sigmoid activation – R code This is the random data set used in the Python code above which was saved as a CSV. The code is used to test a L -Layer DL network with Sigmoid Activation in R. source("DLfunctions5.R") # Read the random data set z <- as.matrix(read.csv("data.csv",header=FALSE)) x <- z[,1:2] y <- z[,3] X <- t(x) Y <- t(y) # Set the dimensions of the layer layersDimensions = c(2, 9, 9,1) # Run Gradient Descent on the data set with relu hidden unit activation # sigmoid activation unit in the output layer retvals = L_Layer_DeepModel(X, Y, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', outputActivationFunc="sigmoid", learningRate = 0.3, numIterations = 5000, print_cost = True) #Plot the cost vs iterations iterations <- seq(0,5000,1000) costs=retvals$costs
df=data.frame(iterations,costs)
ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() + geom_line(color="blue") +
ggtitle("Costs vs iterations") + xlab("Iterations") + ylab("Loss")

### 5. Spiral dataset with Softmax activation – R

The spiral data set used in the Python code above, is reused to test  multi-class classification with Softmax.

source("DLfunctions5.R")

# Setup the data
X <- Z[,1:2]
y <- Z[,3]
X <- t(X)
Y <- t(y)

# Initialize number of features, number of hidden units in hidden layer and
# number of classes
numFeats<-2 # No features
numHidden<-100 # No of hidden units
numOutput<-3 # No of classes

# Set the layer dimensions
layersDimensions = c(numFeats,numHidden,numOutput)

# Perform gradient descent with relu activation unit for hidden layer
# and softmax activation in the output
retvals = L_Layer_DeepModel(X, Y, layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.5,
numIterations = 9000,
print_cost = True)
#Plot cost vs iterations
iterations <- seq(0,9000,1000)
costs=retvals$costs df=data.frame(iterations,costs) ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() + geom_line(color="blue") + ggtitle("Costs vs iterations") + xlab("Iterations") + ylab("Costs") ### 6. MNIST dataset with Softmax activation – R The code below executes a L – Layer Deep Learning network with Softmax output activation, to classify the 10 handwritten digits from MNIST with Stochastic Gradient Descent. The entire 60000 data set was used to train the data. R takes almost 8 hours to process this data set with a mini-batch size of 1000. The use of ‘for’ loops is limited to iterating through epochs, mini batches and for creating the mini batches itself. All other code is vectorized. Yet, it seems to crawl. Most likely the use of ‘lists’ in R, to return multiple values is performance intensive. Some day, I will try to profile the code, and see where the issue is. However the code works! Having said that, the Confusion Matrix in R dumps a lot of interesting statistics! There is a bunch of statistical measures for each class. For e.g. the Balanced Accuracy for the digits ‘6’ and ‘9’ is around 50%. Looks like, the classifier is confused by the fact that 6 is inverted 9 and vice-versa. The accuracy on the Test data set is just around 75%. I could have played around with the number of layers, number of hidden units, learning rates, epochs etc to get a much higher accuracy. But since each test took about 8+ hours, I may work on this, some other day! source("DLfunctions5.R") source("mnist.R") #Load the mnist data load_mnist() show_digit(train$x[2,])
#Set the layer dimensions
layersDimensions=c(784, 15,9, 10) # Works at 1500
x <- t(train$x) X <- x[,1:60000] y <-train$y
y1 <- y[1:60000]
y2 <- as.matrix(y1)
Y=t(y2)

# Subset 32768 random samples from MNIST
permutation = c(sample(2^15))
# Randomly shuffle the training data
X1 = X[, permutation]
y1 = Y[1, permutation]
y2 <- as.matrix(y1)
Y1=t(y2)

# Execute Stochastic Gradient Descent on the entire training set
# with Softmax activation
retvalsSGD= L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X1, Y1, layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.05,
mini_batch_size = 512,
num_epochs = 1,
print_cost = True)


# Compute the Confusion Matrix
library(caret)
library(e1071)
predictions=predictProba(retvalsSGD[['parameters']], X,hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax")
confusionMatrix(predictions,Y)
# Confusion Matrix on the Training set
> confusionMatrix(predictions,Y)
Confusion Matrix and Statistics

Reference
Prediction    0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9
0 5738    1   21    5   16   17    7   15    9   43
1    5 6632   21   24   25    3    2   33   13  392
2   12   32 5747  106   25   28    3   27   44 4779
3    0   27   12 5715    1   21    1   20    1   13
4   10    5   21   18 5677    9   17   30   15  166
5  142   21   96  136   93 5306 5884   43   60  413
6    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
7    6    9   13   13    3    4    0 6085    0   55
8    8   12    7   43    1   32    2    7 5703   69
9    2    3   20   71    1    1    2    5    6   19

Overall Statistics

Accuracy : 0.777
95% CI : (0.7737, 0.7804)
No Information Rate : 0.1124
P-Value [Acc > NIR] : < 2.2e-16

Kappa : 0.7524
Mcnemar's Test P-Value : NA

Statistics by Class:

Class: 0 Class: 1 Class: 2 Class: 3 Class: 4 Class: 5 Class: 6
Sensitivity           0.96877   0.9837  0.96459  0.93215  0.97176  0.97879  0.00000
Specificity           0.99752   0.9903  0.90644  0.99822  0.99463  0.87380  1.00000
Pos Pred Value        0.97718   0.9276  0.53198  0.98348  0.95124  0.43513      NaN
Neg Pred Value        0.99658   0.9979  0.99571  0.99232  0.99695  0.99759  0.90137
Prevalence            0.09872   0.1124  0.09930  0.10218  0.09737  0.09035  0.09863
Detection Rate        0.09563   0.1105  0.09578  0.09525  0.09462  0.08843  0.00000
Detection Prevalence  0.09787   0.1192  0.18005  0.09685  0.09947  0.20323  0.00000
Balanced Accuracy     0.98314   0.9870  0.93551  0.96518  0.98319  0.92629  0.50000
Class: 7 Class: 8  Class: 9
Sensitivity            0.9713  0.97471 0.0031938
Specificity            0.9981  0.99666 0.9979464
Pos Pred Value         0.9834  0.96924 0.1461538
Neg Pred Value         0.9967  0.99727 0.9009521
Prevalence             0.1044  0.09752 0.0991500
Detection Rate         0.1014  0.09505 0.0003167
Detection Prevalence   0.1031  0.09807 0.0021667
Balanced Accuracy      0.9847  0.98568 0.5005701

# Confusion Matrix on the Training set xtest <- t(test$x) Xtest <- xtest[,1:10000] ytest <-test$y ytest1 <- ytest[1:10000] ytest2 <- as.matrix(ytest1) Ytest=t(ytest2)

Confusion Matrix and Statistics

Reference
Prediction    0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9
0  950    2    2    3    0    6    9    4    7    6
1    3 1110    4    2    9    0    3   12    5   74
2    2    6  965   21    9   14    5   16   12  789
3    1    2    9  908    2   16    0   21    2    6
4    0    1    9    5  938    1    8    6    8   39
5   19    5   25   35   20  835  929    8   54   67
6    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
7    4    4    7   10    2    4    0  952    5    6
8    1    5    8   14    2   16    2    3  876   21
9    0    0    3   12    0    0    2    6    5    1

Overall Statistics

Accuracy : 0.7535
95% CI : (0.7449, 0.7619)
No Information Rate : 0.1135
P-Value [Acc > NIR] : < 2.2e-16

Kappa : 0.7262
Mcnemar's Test P-Value : NA

Statistics by Class:

Class: 0 Class: 1 Class: 2 Class: 3 Class: 4 Class: 5 Class: 6
Sensitivity            0.9694   0.9780   0.9351   0.8990   0.9552   0.9361   0.0000
Specificity            0.9957   0.9874   0.9025   0.9934   0.9915   0.8724   1.0000
Pos Pred Value         0.9606   0.9083   0.5247   0.9390   0.9241   0.4181      NaN
Neg Pred Value         0.9967   0.9972   0.9918   0.9887   0.9951   0.9929   0.9042
Prevalence             0.0980   0.1135   0.1032   0.1010   0.0982   0.0892   0.0958
Detection Rate         0.0950   0.1110   0.0965   0.0908   0.0938   0.0835   0.0000
Detection Prevalence   0.0989   0.1222   0.1839   0.0967   0.1015   0.1997   0.0000
Balanced Accuracy      0.9825   0.9827   0.9188   0.9462   0.9733   0.9043   0.5000
Class: 7 Class: 8  Class: 9
Sensitivity            0.9261   0.8994 0.0009911
Specificity            0.9953   0.9920 0.9968858
Pos Pred Value         0.9577   0.9241 0.0344828
Neg Pred Value         0.9916   0.9892 0.8989068
Prevalence             0.1028   0.0974 0.1009000
Detection Rate         0.0952   0.0876 0.0001000
Detection Prevalence   0.0994   0.0948 0.0029000
Balanced Accuracy      0.9607   0.9457 0.4989384


### 7. Random dataset with Sigmoid activation – Octave

The Octave code below uses the random data set used by Python. The code below implements a L-Layer Deep Learning with Sigmoid Activation.


source("DL5functions.m")

X=data(:,1:2);
Y=data(:,3);
#Set the layer dimensions
layersDimensions = [2 9 7  1]; #tanh=-0.5(ok), #relu=0.1 best!
[weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel(X', Y', layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="sigmoid",
learningRate = 0.1,
numIterations = 10000);
# Plot cost vs iterations
plotCostVsIterations(10000,costs);


### 8. Spiral dataset with Softmax activation – Octave

The  code below uses the spiral data set used by Python above. The code below implements a L-Layer Deep Learning with Softmax Activation.

# Read the data

# Setup the data
X=data(:,1:2);
Y=data(:,3);

# Set the number of features, number of hidden units in hidden layer and number of classess
numFeats=2; #No features
numHidden=100; # No of hidden units
numOutput=3; # No of  classes
# Set the layer dimensions
layersDimensions = [numFeats numHidden  numOutput];
#Perform gradient descent with softmax activation unit
[weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel(X', Y', layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.1,
numIterations = 10000);


### 9. MNIST dataset with Softmax activation – Octave

The code below implements a L-Layer Deep Learning Network in Octave with Softmax output activation unit, for classifying the 10 handwritten digits in the MNIST dataset. Unfortunately, Octave can only index to around 10000 training at a time,  and I was getting an error ‘error: out of memory or dimension too large for Octave’s index type error: called from…’, when I tried to create a batch size of 20000.  So I had to come with a work around to create a batch size of 10000 (randomly) and then use a mini-batch of 1000 samples and execute Stochastic Gradient Descent. The performance was good. Octave takes about 15 minutes, on a batch size of 10000 and a mini batch of 1000.

I thought if the performance was not good, I could iterate through these random batches and refining the gradients as follows

# Pseudo code that could be used since Octave only allows 10K batches
# at a time
# Randomly create weights
[weights biases] = initialize_weights()
for i=1:k
# Create a random permutation and create a random batch
permutation = randperm(10000);
X=trainX(permutation,:);
Y=trainY(permutation,:);
# Compute weights from SGD and update weights in the next batch update
[weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X,Y,mini_bactch=1000,weights, biases,...);
...
endfor
# Load the MNIST data
#Create a random permutatation from 60K
permutation = randperm(10000);
disp(length(permutation));

# Use this 10K as the batch
X=trainX(permutation,:);
Y=trainY(permutation,:);

# Set layer dimensions
layersDimensions=[784, 15, 9, 10];

# Run Stochastic Gradient descent with batch size=10K and mini_batch_size=1000
[weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel_SGD(X', Y', layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
outputActivationFunc="softmax",
learningRate = 0.01,
mini_batch_size = 2000, num_epochs = 5000);


#### 9. Final thoughts

Here are some of my final thoughts after working on Python, R and Octave in this series and in other projects
1. Python, with its highly optimized numpy library, is ideally suited for creating Deep Learning Models, which have a lot of matrix manipulations. Python is a real workhorse when it comes to Deep Learning computations.
2. R is somewhat clunky in comparison to its cousin Python in handling matrices or in returning multiple values. But R’s statistical libraries, dplyr, and ggplot are really superior to the Python peers. Also, I find R handles  dataframes,  much better than Python.
3. Octave is a no-nonsense,minimalist language which is very efficient in handling matrices. It is ideally suited for implementing Machine Learning and Deep Learning from scratch. But Octave has its problems and cannot handle large matrix sizes, and also lacks the statistical libaries of R and Python. They possibly exist in its sibling, Matlab

#### Conclusion

Building a Deep Learning Network from scratch is quite challenging, time-consuming but nevertheless an exciting task.  While the statements in the different languages for manipulating matrices, summing up columns, finding columns which have ones don’t take more than a single statement, extreme care has to be taken to ensure that the statements work well for any dimension.  The lessons learnt from creating L -Layer Deep Learning network  are many and well worth it. Give it a try!

Hasta la vista! I’ll be back, so stick around!
Watch this space!

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# Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 4

In this 4th post of my series on Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 4, I explore the details of creating a multi-class classifier using the Softmax activation unit in a neural network. The earlier posts in this series were

1. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 1. In this post I implemented logistic regression as a simple Neural Network in vectorized Python, R and Octave
2. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 2. This 2nd part implemented the most elementary neural network with 1 hidden layer and any number of activation units in the hidden layer with sigmoid activation at the output layer
3. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 3. The 3rd implemented a multi-layer Deep Learning network with an arbitrary number if hidden layers and activation units per hidden layer. The output layer was for binary classification which was based on the sigmoid unit. This multi-layer deep network was implemented in vectorized Python, R and Octave.

Checkout my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles: Second Edition – In vectorized Python, R and Octave’. My book starts with the implementation of a simple 2-layer Neural Network and works its way to a generic L-Layer Deep Learning Network, with all the bells and whistles. The derivations have been discussed in detail. The code has been extensively commented and included in its entirety in the Appendix sections. My book is available on Amazon as paperback ($18.99) and in kindle version($9.99/Rs449).

This 4th part takes a swing at multi-class classification and uses the Softmax as the activation unit in the output layer. Inclusion of the Softmax activation unit in the activation layer requires us to compute the derivative of Softmax, or rather the “Jacobian” of the Softmax function, besides also computing the log loss for this Softmax activation during back propagation. Since the derivation of the Jacobian of a Softmax and the computation of the Cross Entropy/log loss is very involved, I have implemented a basic neural network with just 1 hidden layer with the Softmax activation at the output layer. I also perform multi-class classification based on the ‘spiral’ data set from CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks Stanford course, to test the performance and correctness of the implementations in Python, R and Octave. You can clone download the code for the Python, R and Octave implementations from Github at Deep Learning – Part 4

Note: A detailed discussion of the derivation below can also be seen in my video presentation Neural Networks 5

The Softmax function takes an N dimensional vector as input and generates a N dimensional vector as output.
The Softmax function is given by
$S_{j}= \frac{e_{j}}{\sum_{i}^{N}e_{k}}$
There is a probabilistic interpretation of the Softmax, since the sum of the Softmax values of a set of vectors will always add up to 1, given that each Softmax value is divided by the total of all values.

As mentioned earlier, the Softmax takes a vector input and returns a vector of outputs.  For e.g. the Softmax of a vector a=[1, 3, 6]  is another vector S=[0.0063,0.0471,0.9464]. Notice that vector output is proportional to the input vector.  Also, taking the derivative of a vector by another vector, is known as the Jacobian. By the way, The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning by Terence Parr and Jeremy Howard, is very good paper that distills all the main mathematical concepts for Deep Learning in one place.

Let us take a simple 2 layered neural network with just 2 activation units in the hidden layer is shown below

$Z_{1}^{1} =W_{11}^{1}x_{1} + W_{21}^{1}x_{2} + b_{1}^{1}$
$Z_{2}^{1} =W_{12}^{1}x_{1} + W_{22}^{1}x_{2} + b_{2}^{1}$
and
$A_{1}^{1} = g'(Z_{1}^{1})$
$A_{2}^{1} = g'(Z_{2}^{1})$
where g'() is the activation unit in the hidden layer which can be a relu, sigmoid or a
tanh function

Note: The superscript denotes the layer. The above denotes the equation for layer 1
of the neural network. For layer 2 with the Softmax activation, the equations are
$Z_{1}^{2} =W_{11}^{2}x_{1} + W_{21}^{2}x_{2} + b_{1}^{2}$
$Z_{2}^{2} =W_{12}^{2}x_{1} + W_{22}^{2}x_{2} + b_{2}^{2}$
and
$A_{1}^{2} = S(Z_{1}^{2})$
$A_{2}^{2} = S(Z_{2}^{2})$
where S() is the Softmax activation function
$S=\begin{pmatrix} S(Z_{1}^{2})\\ S(Z_{2}^{2}) \end{pmatrix}$
$S=\begin{pmatrix} \frac{e^{Z1}}{e^{Z1}+e^{Z2}}\\ \frac{e^{Z2}}{e^{Z1}+e^{Z2}} \end{pmatrix}$

The Jacobian of the softmax ‘S’ is given by
$\begin{pmatrix} \frac {\partial S_{1}}{\partial Z_{1}} & \frac {\partial S_{1}}{\partial Z_{2}}\\ \frac {\partial S_{2}}{\partial Z_{1}} & \frac {\partial S_{2}}{\partial Z_{2}} \end{pmatrix}$
$\begin{pmatrix} \frac{\partial}{\partial Z_{1}} \frac {e^{Z1}}{e^{Z1}+ e^{Z2}} & \frac{\partial}{\partial Z_{2}} \frac {e^{Z1}}{e^{Z1}+ e^{Z2}}\\ \frac{\partial}{\partial Z_{1}} \frac {e^{Z2}}{e^{Z1}+ e^{Z2}} & \frac{\partial}{\partial Z_{2}} \frac {e^{Z2}}{e^{Z1}+ e^{Z2}} \end{pmatrix}$     – (A)

Now the ‘division-rule’  of derivatives is as follows. If u and v are functions of x, then
$\frac{d}{dx} \frac {u}{v} =\frac {vdu -udv}{v^{2}}$
Using this to compute each element of the above Jacobian matrix, we see that
when i=j we have
$\frac {\partial}{\partial Z1}\frac{e^{Z1}}{e^{Z1}+e^{Z2}} = \frac {\sum e^{Z1} - e^{Z1^{2}}}{\sum ^{2}}$
and when $i \neq j$
$\frac {\partial}{\partial Z1}\frac{e^{Z2}}{e^{Z1}+e^{Z2}} = \frac {0 - e^{z1}e^{Z2}}{\sum ^{2}}$
This is of the general form
$\frac {\partial S_{j}}{\partial z_{i}} = S_{i}( 1-S_{j})$  when i=j
and
$\frac {\partial S_{j}}{\partial z_{i}} = -S_{i}S_{j}$  when $i \neq j$
Note: Since the Softmax essentially gives the probability the following
notation is also used
$\frac {\partial p_{j}}{\partial z_{i}} = p_{i}( 1-p_{j})$ when i=j
and
$\frac {\partial p_{j}}{\partial z_{i}} = -p_{i}p_{j} when i \neq j$
If you throw the “Kronecker delta” into the equation, then the above equations can be expressed even more concisely as
$\frac {\partial p_{j}}{\partial z_{i}} = p_{i} (\delta_{ij} - p_{j})$
where $\delta_{ij} = 1$ when i=j and 0 when $i \neq j$

This reduces the Jacobian of the simple 2 output softmax vectors  equation (A) as
$\begin{pmatrix} p_{1}(1-p_{1}) & -p_{1}p_{2} \\ -p_{2}p_{1} & p_{2}(1-p_{2}) \end{pmatrix}$
The loss of Softmax is given by
$L = -\sum y_{i} log(p_{i})$
For the 2 valued Softmax output this is
$\frac {dL}{dp1} = -\frac {y_{1}}{p_{1}}$
$\frac {dL}{dp2} = -\frac {y_{2}}{p_{2}}$
Using the chain rule we can write
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial w_{pq}} = \sum _{i}\frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{i}} \frac {\partial p_{i}}{\partial w_{pq}}$ (1)
and
$\frac {\partial p_{i}}{\partial w_{pq}} = \sum _{k}\frac {\partial p_{i}}{\partial z_{k}} \frac {\partial z_{k}}{\partial w_{pq}}$ (2)
In expanded form this is
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial w_{pq}} = \sum _{i}\frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{i}} \sum _{k}\frac {\partial p_{i}}{\partial z_{k}} \frac {\partial z_{k}}{\partial w_{pq}}$
Also
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial Z_{i}} =\sum _{i} \frac {\partial L}{\partial p} \frac {\partial p}{\partial Z_{i}}$
Therefore
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial Z_{1}} =\frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{1}} \frac {\partial p_{1}}{\partial Z_{1}} +\frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{2}} \frac {\partial p_{2}}{\partial Z_{1}}$
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial z_{1}}=-\frac {y1}{p1} p1(1-p1) - \frac {y2}{p2}*(-p_{2}p_{1})$
Since
$\frac {\partial p_{j}}{\partial z_{i}} = p_{i}( 1-p_{j})$ when i=j
and
$\frac {\partial p_{j}}{\partial z_{i}} = -p_{i}p_{j}$ when $i \neq j$
which simplifies to
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial Z_{1}} = -y_{1} + y_{1}p_{1} + y_{2}p_{1} =$
$p_{1}\sum (y_{1} + y_2) - y_{1}$
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial Z_{1}}= p_{1} - y_{1}$
Since
$\sum_{i} y_{i} =1$
Similarly
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial Z_{2}} =\frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{1}} \frac {\partial p_{1}}{\partial Z_{2}} +\frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{2}} \frac {\partial p_{2}}{\partial Z_{2}}$
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial z_{2}}=-\frac {y1}{p1}*(p_{1}p_{2}) - \frac {y2}{p2}*p_{2}(1-p_{2})$
$y_{1}p_{2} + y_{2}p_{2} - y_{2}$
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial Z_{2}} =p_{2}\sum (y_{1} + y_2) - y_{2}\\ = p_{2} - y_{2}$
In general this is of the form
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial z_{i}} = p_{i} -y_{i}$
For e.g if the probabilities computed were p=[0.1, 0.7, 0.2] then this implies that the class with probability 0.7 is the likely class. This would imply that the ‘One hot encoding’ for  yi  would be yi=[0,1,0] therefore the gradient pi-yi = [0.1,-0.3,0.2]

<strong>Note: Further, we could extend this derivation for a Softmax activation output that outputs 3 classes
$S=\begin{pmatrix} \frac{e^{z1}}{e^{z1}+e^{z2}+e^{z3}}\\ \frac{e^{z2}}{e^{z1}+e^{z2}+e^{z3}} \\ \frac{e^{z3}}{e^{z1}+e^{z2}+e^{z3}} \end{pmatrix}$

We could derive
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial z1}= \frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{1}} \frac {\partial p_{1}}{\partial z_{1}} +\frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{2}} \frac {\partial p_{2}}{\partial z_{1}} +\frac {\partial L}{\partial p_{3}} \frac {\partial p_{3}}{\partial z_{1}}$ which similarly reduces to
$\frac {\partial L}{\partial z_{1}}=-\frac {y1}{p1} p1(1-p1) - \frac {y2}{p2}*(-p_{2}p_{1}) - \frac {y3}{p3}*(-p_{3}p_{1})$
$-y_{1}+ y_{1}p_{1} + y_{2}p_{1} + y_{3}p1 = p_{1}\sum (y_{1} + y_2 + y_3) - y_{1} = p_{1} - y_{1}$
Interestingly, despite the lengthy derivations the final result is simple and intuitive!

As seen in my post ‘Deep Learning from first principles with Python, R and Octave – Part 3 the key equations for forward and backward propagation are

Forward propagation equations layer 1
$Z_{1} = W_{1}X +b_{1}$     and  $A_{1} = g(Z_{1})$
Forward propagation equations layer 1
$Z_{2} = W_{2}A_{1} +b_{2}$  and  $A_{2} = S(Z_{2})$

Using the result (A) in the back propagation equations below we have
Backward propagation equations layer 2
$\partial L/\partial W_{2} =\partial L/\partial Z_{2}*A_{1}=(p_{2}-y_{2})*A_{1}$
$\partial L/\partial b_{2} =\partial L/\partial Z_{2}=p_{2}-y_{2}$
$\partial L/\partial A_{1} = \partial L/\partial Z_{2} * W_{2}=(p_{2}-y_{2})*W_{2}$
Backward propagation equations layer 1
$\partial L/\partial W_{1} =\partial L/\partial Z_{1} *A_{0}=(p_{1}-y_{1})*A_{0}$
$\partial L/\partial b_{1} =\partial L/\partial Z_{1}=(p_{1}-y_{1})$

#### 2.0 Spiral data set

As I mentioned earlier, I will be using the ‘spiral’ data from CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks to ensure that my vectorized implementations in Python, R and Octave are correct. Here is the ‘spiral’ data set.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import os
os.chdir("C:/junk/dl-4/dl-4")

# Create an input data set - Taken from CS231n Convolutional Neural networks
# http://cs231n.github.io/neural-networks-case-study/
N = 100 # number of points per class
D = 2 # dimensionality
K = 3 # number of classes
X = np.zeros((N*K,D)) # data matrix (each row = single example)
y = np.zeros(N*K, dtype='uint8') # class labels
for j in range(K):
ix = range(N*j,N*(j+1))
t = np.linspace(j*4,(j+1)*4,N) + np.random.randn(N)*0.2 # theta
X[ix] = np.c_[r*np.sin(t), r*np.cos(t)]
y[ix] = j
# Plot the data
plt.scatter(X[:, 0], X[:, 1], c=y, s=40, cmap=plt.cm.Spectral)
plt.savefig("fig1.png", bbox_inches='tight')

The implementations of the vectorized Python, R and Octave code are shown diagrammatically below

#### 2.1 Multi-class classification with Softmax – Python code

A simple 2 layer Neural network with a single hidden layer , with 100 Relu activation units in the hidden layer and the Softmax activation unit in the output layer is used for multi-class classification. This Deep Learning Network, plots the non-linear boundary of the 3 classes as shown below

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import os
os.chdir("C:/junk/dl-4/dl-4")

N = 100 # number of points per class
D = 2 # dimensionality
K = 3 # number of classes
X = np.zeros((N*K,D)) # data matrix (each row = single example)
y = np.zeros(N*K, dtype='uint8') # class labels
for j in range(K):
ix = range(N*j,N*(j+1))
t = np.linspace(j*4,(j+1)*4,N) + np.random.randn(N)*0.2 # theta
X[ix] = np.c_[r*np.sin(t), r*np.cos(t)]
y[ix] = j

# Set the number of features, hidden units in hidden layer and number of classess
numHidden=100 # No of hidden units in hidden layer
numFeats= 2 # dimensionality
numOutput = 3 # number of classes

# Initialize the model
parameters=initializeModel(numFeats,numHidden,numOutput)
W1= parameters['W1']
b1= parameters['b1']
W2= parameters['W2']
b2= parameters['b2']

# Set the learning rate
learningRate=0.6

# Initialize losses
losses=[]
for i in range(10000):
# Forward propagation through hidden layer with Relu units
A1,cache1= layerActivationForward(X.T,W1,b1,'relu')

# Forward propagation through output layer with Softmax
A2,cache2 = layerActivationForward(A1,W2,b2,'softmax')

# No of training examples
numTraining = X.shape[0]
# Compute log probs. Take the log prob of correct class based on output y
correct_logprobs = -np.log(A2[range(numTraining),y])
# Conpute loss
loss = np.sum(correct_logprobs)/numTraining

# Print the loss
if i % 1000 == 0:
print("iteration %d: loss %f" % (i, loss))
losses.append(loss)

dA=0

# Backward  propagation through output layer with Softmax
dA1,dW2,db2 = layerActivationBackward(dA, cache2, y, activationFunc='softmax')
# Backward  propagation through hidden layer with Relu unit
dA0,dW1,db1 = layerActivationBackward(dA1.T, cache1, y, activationFunc='relu')

#Update paramaters with the learning rate
W1 += -learningRate * dW1
b1 += -learningRate * db1
W2 += -learningRate * dW2.T
b2 += -learningRate * db2.T

#Plot losses vs iterations
i=np.arange(0,10000,1000)
plt.plot(i,losses)

plt.xlabel('Iterations')
plt.ylabel('Loss')
plt.title('Losses vs Iterations')
plt.savefig("fig2.png", bbox="tight")

#Compute the multi-class Confusion Matrix
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score

# We need to determine the predicted values from the learnt data
# Forward propagation through hidden layer with Relu units
A1,cache1= layerActivationForward(X.T,W1,b1,'relu')

# Forward propagation through output layer with Softmax
A2,cache2 = layerActivationForward(A1,W2,b2,'softmax')
#Compute predicted values from weights and biases
yhat=np.argmax(A2, axis=1)

a=confusion_matrix(y.T,yhat.T)
print("Multi-class Confusion Matrix")
print(a)
## iteration 0: loss 1.098507
## iteration 1000: loss 0.214611
## iteration 2000: loss 0.043622
## iteration 3000: loss 0.032525
## iteration 4000: loss 0.025108
## iteration 5000: loss 0.021365
## iteration 6000: loss 0.019046
## iteration 7000: loss 0.017475
## iteration 8000: loss 0.016359
## iteration 9000: loss 0.015703
## Multi-class Confusion Matrix
## [[ 99   1   0]
##  [  0 100   0]
##  [  0   1  99]]

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#### 2.2 Multi-class classification with Softmax – R code

The spiral data set created with Python was saved, and is used as the input with R code. The R Neural Network seems to perform much,much slower than both Python and Octave. Not sure why! Incidentally the computation of loss and the softmax derivative are identical for both R and Octave. yet R is much slower. To compute the softmax derivative I create matrices for the One Hot Encoded yi and then stack them before subtracting pi-yi. I am sure there is a more elegant and more efficient way to do this, much like Python. Any suggestions?

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(RColorBrewer)
source("DLfunctions41.R")
Z1=data.frame(Z)
#Plot the dataset
ggplot(Z1,aes(x=V1,y=V2,col=V3)) +geom_point() +
scale_colour_gradientn(colours = brewer.pal(10, "Spectral"))

# Setup the data
X <- Z[,1:2]
y <- Z[,3]
X1 <- t(X)
Y1 <- t(y)

# Initialize number of features, number of hidden units in hidden layer and
# number of classes
numFeats<-2 # No features
numHidden<-100 # No of hidden units
numOutput<-3 # No of classes

# Initialize model
parameters <-initializeModel(numFeats, numHidden,numOutput)

W1 <-parameters[['W1']]
b1 <-parameters[['b1']]
W2 <-parameters[['W2']]
b2 <-parameters[['b2']]

# Set the learning rate
learningRate <- 0.5
# Initialize losses
losses <- NULL
for(i in 0:9000){

# Forward propagation through hidden layer with Relu units
retvals <- layerActivationForward(X1,W1,b1,'relu')
A1 <- retvals[['A']]
cache1 <- retvals[['cache']]
forward_cache1 <- cache1[['forward_cache1']]
activation_cache <- cache1[['activation_cache']]

# Forward propagation through output layer with Softmax units
retvals = layerActivationForward(A1,W2,b2,'softmax')
A2 <- retvals[['A']]
cache2 <- retvals[['cache']]
forward_cache2 <- cache2[['forward_cache1']]
activation_cache2 <- cache2[['activation_cache']]

# No oftraining examples
numTraining <- dim(X)[1]
dA <-0

# Select the elements where the y values are 0, 1 or 2 and make a vector
a=c(A2[y==0,1],A2[y==1,2],A2[y==2,3])
# Take log
correct_probs = -log(a)
# Compute loss
loss= sum(correct_probs)/numTraining

if(i %% 1000 == 0){
sprintf("iteration %d: loss %f",i, loss)
print(loss)
}
# Backward propagation through output layer with Softmax units
retvals = layerActivationBackward(dA, cache2, y, activationFunc='softmax')
dA1 = retvals[['dA_prev']]
dW2= retvals[['dW']]
db2= retvals[['db']]
# Backward propagation through hidden layer with Relu units
retvals = layerActivationBackward(t(dA1), cache1, y, activationFunc='relu')
dA0 = retvals[['dA_prev']]
dW1= retvals[['dW']]
db1= retvals[['db']]

# Update parameters
W1 <- W1 - learningRate * dW1
b1 <- b1 - learningRate * db1
W2 <- W2 - learningRate * t(dW2)
b2 <- b2 - learningRate * t(db2)
}
## [1] 1.212487
## [1] 0.5740867
## [1] 0.4048824
## [1] 0.3561941
## [1] 0.2509576
## [1] 0.7351063
## [1] 0.2066114
## [1] 0.2065875
## [1] 0.2151943
## [1] 0.1318807

#Create iterations
iterations <- seq(0,10)
#df=data.frame(iterations,losses)
ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=losses)) + geom_point() + geom_line(color="blue") +
ggtitle("Losses vs iterations") + xlab("Iterations") + ylab("Loss")

plotDecisionBoundary(Z,W1,b1,W2,b2)

Multi-class Confusion Matrix

library(caret)
library(e1071)

# Forward propagation through hidden layer with Relu units
retvals <- layerActivationForward(X1,W1,b1,'relu')
A1 <- retvals[['A']]

# Forward propagation through output layer with Softmax units
retvals = layerActivationForward(A1,W2,b2,'softmax')
A2 <- retvals[['A']]
yhat <- apply(A2, 1,which.max) -1
Confusion Matrix and Statistics
Reference
Prediction  0  1  2
0 97  0  1
1  2 96  4
2  1  4 95

Overall Statistics
Accuracy : 0.96
95% CI : (0.9312, 0.9792)
No Information Rate : 0.3333
P-Value [Acc > NIR] : <2e-16

Kappa : 0.94
Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.5724
Statistics by Class:

Class: 0 Class: 1 Class: 2
Sensitivity            0.9700   0.9600   0.9500
Specificity            0.9950   0.9700   0.9750
Pos Pred Value         0.9898   0.9412   0.9500
Neg Pred Value         0.9851   0.9798   0.9750
Prevalence             0.3333   0.3333   0.3333
Detection Rate         0.3233   0.3200   0.3167
Detection Prevalence   0.3267   0.3400   0.3333
Balanced Accuracy      0.9825   0.9650   0.9625


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#### 2.3 Multi-class classification with Softmax – Octave code

A 2 layer Neural network with the Softmax activation unit in the output layer is constructed in Octave. The same spiral data set is used for Octave also
 source("DL41functions.m") # Read the spiral data data=csvread("spiral.csv"); # Setup the data X=data(:,1:2); Y=data(:,3); # Set the number of features, number of hidden units in hidden layer and number of classes numFeats=2; #No features numHidden=100; # No of hidden units numOutput=3; # No of classes # Initialize model [W1 b1 W2 b2] = initializeModel(numFeats,numHidden,numOutput); # Initialize losses losses=[] #Initialize learningRate learningRate=0.5; for k =1:10000 # Forward propagation through hidden layer with Relu units [A1,cache1 activation_cache1]= layerActivationForward(X',W1,b1,activationFunc ='relu'); # Forward propagation through output layer with Softmax units [A2,cache2 activation_cache2] = layerActivationForward(A1,W2,b2,activationFunc='softmax'); # No of training examples numTraining = size(X)(1); # Select rows where Y=0,1,and 2 and concatenate to a long vector a=[A2(Y==0,1) ;A2(Y==1,2) ;A2(Y==2,3)]; #Select the correct column for log prob correct_probs = -log(a); #Compute log loss loss= sum(correct_probs)/numTraining; if(mod(k,1000) == 0) disp(loss); losses=[losses loss]; endif dA=0; # Backward propagation through output layer with Softmax units [dA1 dW2 db2] = layerActivationBackward(dA, cache2, activation_cache2,Y,activationFunc='softmax'); # Backward propagation through hidden layer with Relu units [dA0,dW1,db1] = layerActivationBackward(dA1', cache1, activation_cache1, Y, activationFunc='relu'); #Update parameters W1 += -learningRate * dW1; b1 += -learningRate * db1; W2 += -learningRate * dW2'; b2 += -learningRate * db2'; endfor # Plot Losses vs Iterations iterations=0:1000:9000 plotCostVsIterations(iterations,losses) # Plot the decision boundary plotDecisionBoundary( X,Y,W1,b1,W2,b2)

The code for the Python, R and Octave implementations can be downloaded from Github at Deep Learning – Part 4

#### Conclusion

In this post I have implemented a 2 layer Neural Network with the Softmax classifier. In Part 3, I implemented a multi-layer Deep Learning Network. I intend to include the Softmax activation unit into the generalized multi-layer Deep Network along with the other activation units of sigmoid,tanh and relu.

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# Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 3

“Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly, I awoke, and there I lay, myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a man.”
from The Brain: The Story of you – David Eagleman

“Thought is a great big vector of neural activity”
Prof Geoffrey Hinton

# Introduction

This is the third part in my series on Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave. In the first part Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave-Part 1, I implemented logistic regression as a 2 layer neural network. The 2nd part Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave-Part 2, dealt with the implementation of 3 layer Neural Networks with 1 hidden layer to perform classification tasks, where the 2 classes cannot be separated by a linear boundary. In this third part, I implement a multi-layer, Deep Learning (DL) network of arbitrary depth (any number of hidden layers) and arbitrary height (any number of activation units in each hidden layer). The implementations of these Deep Learning networks, in all the 3 parts, are based on vectorized versions in Python, R and Octave. The implementation in the 3rd part is for a L-layer Deep Netwwork, but without any regularization, early stopping, momentum or learning rate adaptation techniques. However even the barebones multi-layer DL, is a handful and has enough hyperparameters to fine-tune and adjust.

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The implementation of the vectorized L-layer Deep Learning network in Python, R and Octave were both exhausting, and exacting!! Keeping track of the indices, layer number and matrix dimensions required quite bit of focus. While the implementation was demanding, it was also very exciting to get the code to work. The trick was to be able to shift gears between the slight quirkiness between the languages. Here are some of challenges I faced.

1. Python and Octave allow multiple return values to be unpacked in a single statement. With R, unpacking multiple return values from a list, requires the list returned, to be unpacked separately. I did see that there is a package gsubfn, which does this.  I hope this feature becomes a base R feature.
2. Python and R allow dissimilar elements to be saved and returned from functions using dictionaries or lists respectively. However there is no real equivalent in Octave. The closest I got to this functionality in Octave, was the ‘cell array’. But the cell array can be accessed only by the index, and not with the key as in a Python dictionary or R list. This makes things just a bit more difficult in Octave.
3. Python and Octave include implicit broadcasting. In R, broadcasting is not implicit, but R has a nifty function, the sweep(), with which we can broadcast either by columns or by rows
4. The closest equivalent of Python’s dictionary, or R’s list, in Octave is the cell array. However I had to manage separate cell arrays for weights and biases and during gradient descent and separate gradients dW and dB
5. In Python the rank-1 numpy arrays can be annoying at times. This issue is not present in R and Octave.

Though the number of lines of code for Deep Learning functions in Python, R and Octave are about ~350 apiece, they have been some of the most difficult code I have implemented. The current vectorized implementation supports the relu, sigmoid and tanh activation functions as of now. I will be adding other activation functions like the ‘leaky relu’, ‘softmax’ and others, to the implementation in the weeks to come.

While testing with different hyper-parameters namely i) the number of hidden layers, ii) the number of activation units in each layer, iii) the activation function and iv) the number iterations, I found the L-layer Deep Learning Network to be very sensitive to these hyper-parameters. It is not easy to tune the parameters. Adding more hidden layers, or more units per layer, does not help and mostly results in gradient descent getting stuck in some local minima. It does take a fair amount of trial and error and very close observation on how the DL network performs for logical changes. We then can zero in on the most the optimal solution. Feel free to download/fork my code from Github DeepLearning-Part 3 and play around with the hyper-parameters for your own problems.

#### Derivation of a Multi Layer Deep Learning Network

Note: A detailed discussion of the derivation below is available in my video presentation Neural Network 4
Lets take a simple 3 layer Neural network with 3 hidden layers and an output layer

In the forward propagation cycle the equations are

$Z_{1} = W_{1}A_{0} +b_{1}$  and  $A_{1} = g(Z_{1})$
$Z_{2} = W_{2}A_{1} +b_{2}$  and  $A_{2} = g(Z_{2})$
$Z_{3} = W_{3}A_{2} +b_{3}$  and $A_{3} = g(Z_{3})$

The loss function is given by
$L = -(ylogA3 + (1-y)log(1-A3))$
and $dL/dA3 = -(Y/A_{3} + (1-Y)/(1-A_{3}))$

For a binary classification the output activation function is the sigmoid function given by
$A_{3} = 1/(1+ e^{-Z3})$. It can be shown that
$dA_{3}/dZ_{3} = A_{3}(1-A_3)$ see equation 2 in Part 1

$\partial L/\partial Z_{3} = \partial L/\partial A_{3}* \partial A_{3}/\partial Z_{3} = A3-Y$ see equation (f) in  Part 1
and since
$\partial L/\partial A_{2} = \partial L/\partial Z_{3} * \partial Z_{3}/\partial A_{2} = (A_{3} -Y) * W_{3}$ because $\partial Z_{3}/\partial A_{2} = W_{3}$ -(1a)
and $\partial L/\partial Z_{2} =\partial L/\partial A_{2} * \partial A_{2}/\partial Z_{2} = (A_{3} -Y) * W_{3} *g'(Z_{2})$ -(1b)
$\partial L/\partial W_{2} = \partial L/\partial Z_{2} * A_{1}$ -(1c)
since $\partial Z_{2}/\partial W_{2} = A_{1}$
and
$\partial L/\partial b_{2} = \partial L/\partial Z_{2}$ -(1d)
because
$\partial Z_{2}/\partial b_{2} =1$

Also

$\partial L/\partial A_{1} =\partial L/\partial Z_{2} * \partial Z_{2}/\partial A_{1} = \partial L/\partial Z_{2} * W_{2}$     – (2a)
$\partial L/\partial Z_{1} =\partial L/\partial A_{1} * \partial A_{1}/\partial Z_{1} = \partial L/\partial A_{1} * W_{2} *g'(Z_{1})$          – (2b)
$\partial L/\partial W_{1} = \partial L/\partial Z_{1} * A_{0}$ – (2c)
$\partial L/\partial b_{1} = \partial L/\partial Z_{1}$ – (2d)

Inspecting the above equations (1a – 1d & 2a-2d), our ‘Uber deep, bottomless’ brain  can easily discern the pattern in these equations. The equation for any layer ‘l’ is of the form
$Z_{l} = W_{l}A_{l-1} +b_{l}$     and  $A_{l} = g(Z_{l})$
The equation for the backward propagation have the general form
$\partial L/\partial A_{l} = \partial L/\partial Z_{l+1} * W^{l+1}$
$\partial L/\partial Z_{l}=\partial L/\partial A_{l} *g'(Z_{l})$
$\partial L/\partial W_{l} =\partial L/\partial Z_{l} *A^{l-1}$
$\partial L/\partial b_{l} =\partial L/\partial Z_{l}$

Some other important results The derivatives of the activation functions in the implemented Deep Learning network
g(z) = sigmoid(z) = $1/(1+e^{-z})$ = a g’(z) = a(1-a) – See Part 1
g(z) = tanh(z) = a g’(z) = $1 - a^{2}$
g(z) = relu(z) = z  when z>0 and 0 when z 0 and 0 when z <= 0
While it appears that there is a discontinuity for the derivative at 0 the small value at the discontinuity does not present a problem

The implementation of the multi layer vectorized Deep Learning Network for Python, R and Octave is included below. For all these implementations, initially I create the size and configuration of the the Deep Learning network with the layer dimennsions So for example layersDimension Vector ‘V’ of length L indicating ‘L’ layers where

V (in Python)= $[v_{0}, v_{1}, v_{2}$, … $v_{L-1}]$
V (in R)= $c(v_{1}, v_{2}, v_{3}$ , … $v_{L})$
V (in Octave)= [ $v_{1} v_{2} v_{3}$$v_{L}]$

In all of these implementations the first element is the number of input features to the Deep Learning network and the last element is always a ‘sigmoid’ activation function since all the problems deal with binary classification.

The number of elements between the first and the last element are the number of hidden layers and the magnitude of each $v_{i}$ is the number of activation units in each hidden layer, which is specified while actually executing the Deep Learning network using the function L_Layer_DeepModel(), in all the implementations Python, R and Octave

## 1a. Classification with Multi layer Deep Learning Network – Relu activation(Python)

In the code below a 4 layer Neural Network is trained to generate a non-linear boundary between the classes. In the code below the ‘Relu’ Activation function is used. The number of activation units in each layer is 9. The cost vs iterations is plotted in addition to the decision boundary. Further the accuracy, precision, recall and F1 score are also computed

import os
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.colors
import sklearn.linear_model

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.datasets import make_classification, make_blobs
from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap
import sklearn
import sklearn.datasets

#from DLfunctions import plot_decision_boundary
execfile("./DLfunctions34.py") #
os.chdir("C:\\software\\DeepLearning-Posts\\part3")

# Create clusters of 2 classes
X1, Y1 = make_blobs(n_samples = 400, n_features = 2, centers = 9,
cluster_std = 1.3, random_state = 4)
#Create 2 classes
Y1=Y1.reshape(400,1)
Y1 = Y1 % 2
X2=X1.T
Y2=Y1.T
# Set the dimensions of DL Network
#  Below we have
#  2 - 2 input features
#  9,9 - 2 hidden layers with 9 activation units per layer and
#  1 - 1 sigmoid activation unit in the output layer as this is a binary classification
# The activation in the hidden layer is the 'relu' specified in L_Layer_DeepModel

layersDimensions = [2, 9, 9,1] #  4-layer model
parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel(X2, Y2, layersDimensions,hiddenActivationFunc='relu', learning_rate = 0.3,num_iterations = 2500, fig="fig1.png")
#Plot the decision boundary
plot_decision_boundary(lambda x: predict(parameters, x.T), X2,Y2,str(0.3),"fig2.png")

# Compute the confusion matrix
yhat = predict(parameters,X2)
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
a=confusion_matrix(Y2.T,yhat.T)
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score
print('Accuracy: {:.2f}'.format(accuracy_score(Y2.T, yhat.T)))
print('Precision: {:.2f}'.format(precision_score(Y2.T, yhat.T)))
print('Recall: {:.2f}'.format(recall_score(Y2.T, yhat.T)))
print('F1: {:.2f}'.format(f1_score(Y2.T, yhat.T)))
## Accuracy: 0.90
## Precision: 0.91
## Recall: 0.87
## F1: 0.89

For more details on metrics like Accuracy, Recall, Precision etc. used in classification take a look at my post Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2. More details about these and other metrics besides implementation of the most common machine learning algorithms are available in my book My book ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python’ on Amazon

## 1b. Classification with Multi layer Deep Learning Network – Relu activation(R)

In the code below, binary classification is performed on the same data set as above using the Relu activation function. The DL network is same as above

library(ggplot2)
x <- z[,1:2]
y <- z[,3]
X1 <- t(x)
Y1 <- t(y)

# Set the dimensions of the Deep Learning network
# No of input features =2, 2 hidden layers with 9 activation units and 1 output layer
layersDimensions = c(2, 9, 9,1)
# Execute the Deep Learning Neural Network
retvals = L_Layer_DeepModel(X1, Y1, layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='relu',
learningRate = 0.3,
numIterations = 5000,
print_cost = True)
library(ggplot2)
source("DLfunctions33.R")
# Get the computed costs
costs <- retvals[['costs']]
# Create a sequence of iterations
numIterations=5000
iterations <- seq(0,numIterations,by=1000)
df <-data.frame(iterations,costs)
# Plot the Costs vs number of iterations
ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() +geom_line(color="blue") +
xlab('No of iterations') + ylab('Cost') + ggtitle("Cost vs No of iterations")

# Plot the decision boundary
plotDecisionBoundary(z,retvals,hiddenActivationFunc="relu",0.3)

library(caret)
# Predict the output for the data values
yhat <-predict(retvals$parameters,X1,hiddenActivationFunc="relu") yhat[yhat==FALSE]=0 yhat[yhat==TRUE]=1 # Compute the confusion matrix confusionMatrix(yhat,Y1) ## Confusion Matrix and Statistics ## ## Reference ## Prediction 0 1 ## 0 201 10 ## 1 21 168 ## ## Accuracy : 0.9225 ## 95% CI : (0.8918, 0.9467) ## No Information Rate : 0.555 ## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : < 2e-16 ## ## Kappa : 0.8441 ## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.07249 ## ## Sensitivity : 0.9054 ## Specificity : 0.9438 ## Pos Pred Value : 0.9526 ## Neg Pred Value : 0.8889 ## Prevalence : 0.5550 ## Detection Rate : 0.5025 ## Detection Prevalence : 0.5275 ## Balanced Accuracy : 0.9246 ## ## 'Positive' Class : 0 ##  ## 1c. Classification with Multi layer Deep Learning Network – Relu activation(Octave) Included below is the code for performing classification. Incidentally Octave does not seem to have implemented the confusion matrix, but confusionmat is available in Matlab. # Read the data data=csvread("data.csv"); X=data(:,1:2); Y=data(:,3); # Set layer dimensions layersDimensions = [2 9 7 1] #tanh=-0.5(ok), #relu=0.1 best! # Execute Deep Network [weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel(X', Y', layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', learningRate = 0.1, numIterations = 10000); plotCostVsIterations(10000,costs); plotDecisionBoundary(data,weights, biases,hiddenActivationFunc="tanh")  ## 2a. Classification with Multi layer Deep Learning Network – Tanh activation(Python) Below the Tanh activation function is used to perform the same classification. I found the Tanh activation required a simpler Neural Network of 3 layers. # Tanh activation import os import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.colors import sklearn.linear_model from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split from sklearn.datasets import make_classification, make_blobs from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap import sklearn import sklearn.datasets #from DLfunctions import plot_decision_boundary os.chdir("C:\\software\\DeepLearning-Posts\\part3") execfile("./DLfunctions34.py") # Create the dataset X1, Y1 = make_blobs(n_samples = 400, n_features = 2, centers = 9, cluster_std = 1.3, random_state = 4) #Create 2 classes Y1=Y1.reshape(400,1) Y1 = Y1 % 2 X2=X1.T Y2=Y1.T # Set the dimensions of the Neural Network layersDimensions = [2, 4, 1] # 3-layer model # Compute the DL network parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel(X2, Y2, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='tanh', learning_rate = .5,num_iterations = 2500,fig="fig3.png") #Plot the decision boundary plot_decision_boundary(lambda x: predict(parameters, x.T), X2,Y2,str(0.5),"fig4.png")  ## 2b. Classification with Multi layer Deep Learning Network – Tanh activation(R) R performs better with a Tanh activation than the Relu as can be seen below  #Set the dimensions of the Neural Network layersDimensions = c(2, 9, 9,1) library(ggplot2) # Read the data z <- as.matrix(read.csv("data.csv",header=FALSE)) x <- z[,1:2] y <- z[,3] X1 <- t(x) Y1 <- t(y) # Execute the Deep Model retvals = L_Layer_DeepModel(X1, Y1, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='tanh', learningRate = 0.3, numIterations = 5000, print_cost = True) # Get the costs costs <- retvals[['costs']] iterations <- seq(0,numIterations,by=1000) df <-data.frame(iterations,costs) # Plot Cost vs number of iterations ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() +geom_line(color="blue") + xlab('No of iterations') + ylab('Cost') + ggtitle("Cost vs No of iterations") #Plot the decision boundary plotDecisionBoundary(z,retvals,hiddenActivationFunc="tanh",0.3) ## 2c. Classification with Multi layer Deep Learning Network – Tanh activation(Octave) The code below uses the Tanh activation in the hidden layers for Octave # Read the data data=csvread("data.csv"); X=data(:,1:2); Y=data(:,3); # Set layer dimensions layersDimensions = [2 9 7 1] #tanh=-0.5(ok), #relu=0.1 best! # Execute Deep Network [weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel(X', Y', layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='tanh', learningRate = 0.1, numIterations = 10000); plotCostVsIterations(10000,costs); plotDecisionBoundary(data,weights, biases,hiddenActivationFunc="tanh")  ## 3. Bernoulli’s Lemniscate To make things more interesting, I create a 2D figure of the Bernoulli’s lemniscate to perform non-linear classification. The Lemniscate is given by the equation $(x^{2} + y^{2})^{2}$ = $2a^{2}*(x^{2}-y^{2})$ ## 3a. Classifying a lemniscate with Deep Learning Network – Relu activation(Python) import os import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt os.chdir("C:\\software\\DeepLearning-Posts\\part3") execfile("./DLfunctions33.py") x1=np.random.uniform(0,10,2000).reshape(2000,1) x2=np.random.uniform(0,10,2000).reshape(2000,1) X=np.append(x1,x2,axis=1) X.shape # Create a subset of values where squared is <0,4. Perform ravel() to flatten this vector # Create the equation # (x^{2} + y^{2})^2 - 2a^2*(x^{2}-y^{2}) <= 0 a=np.power(np.power(X[:,0]-5,2) + np.power(X[:,1]-5,2),2) b=np.power(X[:,0]-5,2) - np.power(X[:,1]-5,2) c= a - (b*np.power(4,2)) <=0 Y=c.reshape(2000,1) # Create a scatter plot of the lemniscate plt.scatter(X[:,0], X[:,1], c=Y, marker= 'o', s=15,cmap="viridis") Z=np.append(X,Y,axis=1) plt.savefig("fig50.png",bbox_inches='tight') plt.clf() # Set the data for classification X2=X.T Y2=Y.T # These settings work the best # Set the Deep Learning layer dimensions for a Relu activation layersDimensions = [2,7,4,1] #Execute the DL network parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel(X2, Y2, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', learning_rate = 0.5,num_iterations = 10000, fig="fig5.png") #Plot the decision boundary plot_decision_boundary(lambda x: predict(parameters, x.T), X2, Y2,str(2.2),"fig6.png") # Compute the Confusion matrix yhat = predict(parameters,X2) from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix a=confusion_matrix(Y2.T,yhat.T) from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score print('Accuracy: {:.2f}'.format(accuracy_score(Y2.T, yhat.T))) print('Precision: {:.2f}'.format(precision_score(Y2.T, yhat.T))) print('Recall: {:.2f}'.format(recall_score(Y2.T, yhat.T))) print('F1: {:.2f}'.format(f1_score(Y2.T, yhat.T))) ## Accuracy: 0.93 ## Precision: 0.77 ## Recall: 0.76 ## F1: 0.76 We could get better performance by tuning further. Do play around if you fork the code. Note:: The lemniscate data is saved as a CSV and then read in R and also in Octave. I do this instead of recreating the lemniscate shape ## 3b. Classifying a lemniscate with Deep Learning Network – Relu activation(R code) The R decision boundary for the Bernoulli’s lemniscate is shown below Z <- as.matrix(read.csv("lemniscate.csv",header=FALSE)) Z1=data.frame(Z) # Create a scatter plot of the lemniscate ggplot(Z1,aes(x=V1,y=V2,col=V3)) +geom_point() #Set the data for the DL network X=Z[,1:2] Y=Z[,3] X1=t(X) Y1=t(Y) # Set the layer dimensions for the tanh activation function layersDimensions = c(2,5,4,1) # Execute the Deep Learning network with Tanh activation retvals = L_Layer_DeepModel(X1, Y1, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='tanh', learningRate = 0.3, numIterations = 20000, print_cost = True) # Plot cost vs iteration costs <- retvals[['costs']] numIterations = 20000 iterations <- seq(0,numIterations,by=1000) df <-data.frame(iterations,costs) ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() +geom_line(color="blue") + xlab('No of iterations') + ylab('Cost') + ggtitle("Cost vs No of iterations") #Plot the decision boundary plotDecisionBoundary(Z,retvals,hiddenActivationFunc="tanh",0.3) ## 3c. Classifying a lemniscate with Deep Learning Network – Relu activation(Octave code) Octave is used to generate the non-linear lemniscate boundary.  # Read the data data=csvread("lemniscate.csv"); X=data(:,1:2); Y=data(:,3); # Set the dimensions of the layers layersDimensions = [2 9 7 1] # Compute the DL network [weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel(X', Y', layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', learningRate = 0.20, numIterations = 10000); plotCostVsIterations(10000,costs); plotDecisionBoundary(data,weights, biases,hiddenActivationFunc="relu")  ## 4a. Binary Classification using MNIST – Python code Finally I perform a simple classification using the MNIST handwritten digits, which according to Prof Geoffrey Hinton is “the Drosophila of Deep Learning”. The Python code for reading the MNIST data is taken from Alex Kesling’s github link MNIST. In the Python code below, I perform a simple binary classification between the handwritten digit ‘5’ and ‘not 5’ which is all other digits. I will perform the proper classification of all digits using the Softmax classifier some time later. import os import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt os.chdir("C:\\software\\DeepLearning-Posts\\part3") execfile("./DLfunctions34.py") execfile("./load_mnist.py") training=list(read(dataset='training',path="./mnist")) test=list(read(dataset='testing',path="./mnist")) lbls=[] pxls=[] print(len(training)) # Select the first 10000 training data and the labels for i in range(10000): l,p=training[i] lbls.append(l) pxls.append(p) labels= np.array(lbls) pixels=np.array(pxls) # Sey y=1 when labels == 5 and 0 otherwise y=(labels==5).reshape(-1,1) X=pixels.reshape(pixels.shape[0],-1) # Create the necessary feature and target variable X1=X.T Y1=y.T # Create the layer dimensions. The number of features are 28 x 28 = 784 since the 28 x 28 # pixels is flattened to single vector of length 784. layersDimensions=[784, 15,9,7,1] # Works very well parameters = L_Layer_DeepModel(X1, Y1, layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', learning_rate = 0.1,num_iterations = 1000, fig="fig7.png") # Test data lbls1=[] pxls1=[] for i in range(800): l,p=test[i] lbls1.append(l) pxls1.append(p) testLabels=np.array(lbls1) testData=np.array(pxls1) ytest=(testLabels==5).reshape(-1,1) Xtest=testData.reshape(testData.shape[0],-1) Xtest1=Xtest.T Ytest1=ytest.T yhat = predict(parameters,Xtest1) from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix a=confusion_matrix(Ytest1.T,yhat.T) from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, precision_score, recall_score, f1_score print('Accuracy: {:.2f}'.format(accuracy_score(Ytest1.T, yhat.T))) print('Precision: {:.2f}'.format(precision_score(Ytest1.T, yhat.T))) print('Recall: {:.2f}'.format(recall_score(Ytest1.T, yhat.T))) print('F1: {:.2f}'.format(f1_score(Ytest1.T, yhat.T))) probs=predict_proba(parameters,Xtest1) from sklearn.metrics import precision_recall_curve precision, recall, thresholds = precision_recall_curve(Ytest1.T, probs.T) closest_zero = np.argmin(np.abs(thresholds)) closest_zero_p = precision[closest_zero] closest_zero_r = recall[closest_zero] plt.xlim([0.0, 1.01]) plt.ylim([0.0, 1.01]) plt.plot(precision, recall, label='Precision-Recall Curve') plt.plot(closest_zero_p, closest_zero_r, 'o', markersize = 12, fillstyle = 'none', c='r', mew=3) plt.xlabel('Precision', fontsize=16) plt.ylabel('Recall', fontsize=16) plt.savefig("fig8.png",bbox_inches='tight')   ## Accuracy: 0.99 ## Precision: 0.96 ## Recall: 0.89 ## F1: 0.92 In addition to plotting the Cost vs Iterations, I also plot the Precision-Recall curve to show how the Precision and Recall, which are complementary to each other vary with respect to the other. To know more about Precision-Recall, please check my post Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 4. Check out my compact and minimal book “Practical Machine Learning with R and Python:Second edition- Machine Learning in stereo” available in Amazon in paperback($10.99) and kindle($7.99) versions. My book includes implementations of key ML algorithms and associated measures and metrics. The book is ideal for anybody who is familiar with the concepts and would like a quick reference to the different ML algorithms that can be applied to problems and how to select the best model. Pick your copy today!! A physical copy of the book is much better than scrolling down a webpage. Personally, I tend to use my own book quite frequently to refer to R, Python constructs, subsetting, machine Learning function calls and the necessary parameters etc. It is useless to commit any of this to memory, and a physical copy of a book is much easier to thumb through for the relevant code snippet. Pick up your copy today! ## 4b. Binary Classification using MNIST – R code In the R code below the same binary classification of the digit ‘5’ and the ‘not 5’ is performed. The code to read and display the MNIST data is taken from Brendan O’ Connor’s github link at MNIST source("mnist.R") load_mnist() #show_digit(train$x[2,]
layersDimensions=c(784, 7,7,3,1) # Works at 1500
x <- t(train$x) # Choose only 5000 training data x2 <- x[,1:5000] y <-train$y
# Set labels for all digits that are 'not 5' to 0
y[y!=5] <- 0
# Set labels of digit 5 as 1
y[y==5] <- 1
# Set the data
y1 <- as.matrix(y)
y2 <- t(y1)
# Choose the 1st 5000 data
y3 <- y2[,1:5000]

#Execute the Deep Learning Model
retvals = L_Layer_DeepModel(x2, y3, layersDimensions,
hiddenActivationFunc='tanh',
learningRate = 0.3,
numIterations = 3000, print_cost = True)
# Plot cost vs iteration
costs <- retvals[['costs']]
numIterations = 3000
iterations <- seq(0,numIterations,by=1000)
df <-data.frame(iterations,costs)
ggplot(df,aes(x=iterations,y=costs)) + geom_point() +geom_line(color="blue") +
xlab('No of iterations') + ylab('Cost') + ggtitle("Cost vs No of iterations")

# Compute probability scores
scores <- computeScores(retvals\$parameters, x2,hiddenActivationFunc='relu')
a=y3==1
b=y3==0

# Compute probabilities of class 0 and class 1
class1=scores[a]
class0=scores[b]

# Plot ROC curve
pr <-pr.curve(scores.class0=class1,
scores.class1=class0,
curve=T)

plot(pr)

The AUC curve hugs the top left corner and hence the performance of the classifier is quite good.

## 4c. Binary Classification using MNIST – Octave code

This code to load MNIST data was taken from Daniel E blog.
Precision recall curves are available in Matlab but are yet to be implemented in Octave’s statistics package.
 load('./mnist/mnist.txt.gz'); % load the dataset # Subset the 'not 5' digits a=(trainY != 5); # Subset '5' b=(trainY == 5); #make a copy of trainY #Set 'not 5' as 0 and '5' as 1 y=trainY; y(a)=0; y(b)=1; X=trainX(1:5000,:); Y=y(1:5000); # Set the dimensions of layer layersDimensions=[784, 7,7,3,1]; # Compute the DL network [weights biases costs]=L_Layer_DeepModel(X', Y', layersDimensions, hiddenActivationFunc='relu', learningRate = 0.1, numIterations = 5000); 

# Conclusion

It was quite a challenge coding a Deep Learning Network in Python, R and Octave. The Deep Learning network implementation, in this post,is the base Deep Learning network, without any of the regularization methods included. Here are some key learning that I got while playing with different multi-layer networks on different problems

a. Deep Learning Networks come with many levers, the hyper-parameters,
– learning rate
– activation unit
– number of hidden layers
– number of units per hidden layer
– number of iterations while performing gradient descent
b. Deep Networks are very sensitive. A change in any of the hyper-parameter makes it perform very differently
c. Initially I thought adding more hidden layers, or more units per hidden layer will make the DL network better at learning. On the contrary, there is a performance degradation after the optimal DL configuration
d. At a sub-optimal number of hidden layers or number of hidden units, gradient descent seems to get stuck at a local minima
e. There were occasions when the cost came down, only to increase slowly as the number of iterations were increased. Probably early stopping would have helped.
f. I also did come across situations of ‘exploding/vanishing gradient’, cost went to Inf/-Inf. Here I would think inclusion of ‘momentum method’ would have helped

I intend to add the additional hyper-parameters of L1, L2 regularization, momentum method, early stopping etc. into the code in my future posts.
Feel free to fork/clone the code from Github Deep Learning – Part 3, and take the DL network apart and play around with it.

I will be continuing this series with more hyper-parameters to handle vanishing and exploding gradients, early stopping and regularization in the weeks to come. I also intend to add some more activation functions to this basic Multi-Layer Network.
Hang around, there are more exciting things to come.

Watch this space!

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