// The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt /* This is an example illustrating the use of the deep learning tools from the dlib C++ Library. I'm assuming you have already read the dnn_introduction_ex.cpp example. So in this example program I'm going to go over a number of more advanced parts of the API, including: - Using multiple GPUs - Training on large datasets that don't fit in memory - Defining large networks - Accessing and configuring layers in a network */ #include #include #include using namespace std; using namespace dlib; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Let's start by showing how you can conveniently define large and complex // networks. The most important tool for doing this are C++'s alias templates. // These let us define new layer types that are combinations of a bunch of other // layers. These will form the building blocks for more complex networks. // So let's begin by defining the building block of a residual network (see // Figure 2 in Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition by He, Zhang, Ren, // and Sun). We are going to decompose the residual block into a few alias // statements. First, we define the core block. // Here we have parameterized the "block" layer on a BN layer (nominally some // kind of batch normalization), the number of filter outputs N, and the stride // the block operates at. template < int N, template class BN, int stride, typename SUBNET > using block = BN>>>>; // Next, we need to define the skip layer mechanism used in the residual network // paper. They create their blocks by adding the input tensor to the output of // each block. So we define an alias statement that takes a block and wraps it // with this skip/add structure. // Note the tag layer. This layer doesn't do any computation. It exists solely // so other layers can refer to it. In this case, the add_prev1 layer looks for // the tag1 layer and will take the tag1 output and add it to the input of the // add_prev1 layer. This combination allows us to implement skip and residual // style networks. We have also set the block stride to 1 in this statement. // The significance of that is explained next. template < template class,int,typename> class block, int N, templateclass BN, typename SUBNET > using residual = add_prev1>>; // Some residual blocks do downsampling. They do this by using a stride of 2 // instead of 1. However, when downsampling we need to also take care to // downsample the part of the network that adds the original input to the output // or the sizes won't make sense (the network will still run, but the results // aren't as good). So here we define a downsampling version of residual. In // it, we make use of the skip1 layer. This layer simply outputs whatever is // output by the tag1 layer. Therefore, the skip1 layer (there are also skip2, // skip3, etc. in dlib) allows you to create branching network structures. // residual_down creates a network structure like this: /* input from SUBNET / \ / \ block downsample(using avg_pool) \ / \ / add tensors (using add_prev2 which adds the output of tag2 with avg_pool's output) | output */ template < template class,int,typename> class block, int N, templateclass BN, typename SUBNET > using residual_down = add_prev2>>>>>; // Now we can define 4 different residual blocks we will use in this example. // The first two are non-downsampling residual blocks while the last two // downsample. Also, res and res_down use batch normalization while ares and // ares_down have had the batch normalization replaced with simple affine // layers. We will use the affine version of the layers when testing our // networks. template using res = relu>; template using ares = relu>; template using res_down = relu>; template using ares_down = relu>; // Now that we have these convenient aliases, we can define a residual network // without a lot of typing. Note the use of a repeat layer. This special layer // type allows us to type repeat<9,res> instead of // res>>>>>>>>. It will also prevent // the compiler from complaining about super deep template nesting when creating // large networks. const unsigned long number_of_classes = 10; using net_type = loss_multiclass_log> >>>>>>>>>>; // And finally, let's define a residual network building block that uses // parametric ReLU units instead of regular ReLU. template using pres = prelu>>>>>>>; // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- int main(int argc, char** argv) try { if (argc != 2) { cout << "This example needs the MNIST dataset to run!" << endl; cout << "You can get MNIST from http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/" << endl; cout << "Download the 4 files that comprise the dataset, decompress them, and" << endl; cout << "put them in a folder. Then give that folder as input to this program." << endl; return 1; } std::vector> training_images; std::vector training_labels; std::vector> testing_images; std::vector testing_labels; load_mnist_dataset(argv[1], training_images, training_labels, testing_images, testing_labels); // dlib uses cuDNN under the covers. One of the features of cuDNN is the // option to use slower methods that use less RAM or faster methods that use // a lot of RAM. If you find that you run out of RAM on your graphics card // then you can call this function and we will request the slower but more // RAM frugal cuDNN algorithms. set_dnn_prefer_smallest_algorithms(); // Create a network as defined above. This network will produce 10 outputs // because that's how we defined net_type. However, fc layers can have the // number of outputs they produce changed at runtime. net_type net; // So if you wanted to use the same network but override the number of // outputs at runtime you can do so like this: net_type net2(num_fc_outputs(15)); // Now, let's imagine we wanted to replace some of the relu layers with // prelu layers. We might do it like this: using net_type2 = loss_multiclass_log> >>>>>>>>>>>; // prelu layers have a floating point parameter. If you want to set it to // something other than its default value you can do so like this: net_type2 pnet(prelu_(0.2), prelu_(0.25), repeat_group(prelu_(0.3),prelu_(0.4)) // Initialize all the prelu instances in the repeat // layer. repeat_group() is needed to group the // things that are part of repeat's block. ); // As you can see, a network will greedily assign things given to its // constructor to the layers inside itself. The assignment is done in the // order the layers are defined, but it will skip layers where the // assignment doesn't make sense. // Now let's print the details of the pnet to the screen and inspect it. cout << "The pnet has " << pnet.num_layers << " layers in it." << endl; cout << pnet << endl; // These print statements will output this (I've truncated it since it's // long, but you get the idea): /* The pnet has 131 layers in it. layer<0> loss_multiclass_log layer<1> fc (num_outputs=10) learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=1 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=0 layer<2> avg_pool (nr=0, nc=0, stride_y=1, stride_x=1, padding_y=0, padding_x=0) layer<3> prelu (initial_param_value=0.2) layer<4> add_prev1 layer<5> bn_con eps=1e-05 learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=0 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=1 layer<6> con (num_filters=8, nr=3, nc=3, stride_y=1, stride_x=1, padding_y=1, padding_x=1) learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=1 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=0 layer<7> prelu (initial_param_value=0.25) layer<8> bn_con eps=1e-05 learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=0 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=1 layer<9> con (num_filters=8, nr=3, nc=3, stride_y=1, stride_x=1, padding_y=1, padding_x=1) learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=1 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=0 layer<10> tag1 ... layer<34> relu layer<35> bn_con eps=1e-05 learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=0 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=1 layer<36> con (num_filters=8, nr=3, nc=3, stride_y=2, stride_x=2, padding_y=0, padding_x=0) learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=1 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=0 layer<37> tag1 layer<38> tag4 layer<39> prelu (initial_param_value=0.3) layer<40> add_prev1 layer<41> bn_con eps=1e-05 learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=0 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=1 ... layer<118> relu layer<119> bn_con eps=1e-05 learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=0 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=1 layer<120> con (num_filters=8, nr=3, nc=3, stride_y=2, stride_x=2, padding_y=0, padding_x=0) learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=1 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=0 layer<121> tag1 layer<122> relu layer<123> add_prev1 layer<124> bn_con eps=1e-05 learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=0 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=1 layer<125> con (num_filters=8, nr=3, nc=3, stride_y=1, stride_x=1, padding_y=1, padding_x=1) learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=1 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=0 layer<126> relu layer<127> bn_con eps=1e-05 learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=0 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=1 layer<128> con (num_filters=8, nr=3, nc=3, stride_y=1, stride_x=1, padding_y=1, padding_x=1) learning_rate_mult=1 weight_decay_mult=1 bias_learning_rate_mult=1 bias_weight_decay_mult=0 layer<129> tag1 layer<130> input */ // Now that we know the index numbers for each layer, we can access them // individually using layer(pnet). For example, to access the output // tensor for the first prelu layer we can say: layer<3>(pnet).get_output(); // Or to print the prelu parameter for layer 7 we can say: cout << "prelu param: "<< layer<7>(pnet).layer_details().get_initial_param_value() << endl; // We can also access layers by their type. This next statement finds the // first tag1 layer in pnet, and is therefore equivalent to calling // layer<10>(pnet): layer(pnet); // The tag layers don't do anything at all and exist simply so you can tag // parts of your network and access them by layer(). You can also // index relative to a tag. So for example, to access the layer immediately // after tag4 you can say: layer(pnet); // Equivalent to layer<38+1>(pnet). // Or to access the layer 2 layers after tag4: layer(pnet); // Tagging is a very useful tool for making complex network structures. For // example, the add_prev1 layer is implemented internally by using a call to // layer(). // Ok, that's enough talk about defining and inspecting networks. Let's // talk about training networks! // The dnn_trainer will use SGD by default, but you can tell it to use // different solvers like adam with a weight decay of 0.0005 and the given // momentum parameters. dnn_trainer trainer(net,adam(0.0005, 0.9, 0.999)); // Also, if you have multiple graphics cards you can tell the trainer to use // them together to make the training faster. For example, replacing the // above constructor call with this one would cause it to use GPU cards 0 // and 1. //dnn_trainer trainer(net,adam(0.0005, 0.9, 0.999), {0,1}); trainer.be_verbose(); trainer.set_synchronization_file("mnist_resnet_sync", std::chrono::seconds(100)); // While the trainer is running it keeps an eye on the training error. If // it looks like the error hasn't decreased for the last 2000 iterations it // will automatically reduce the learning rate by 0.1. You can change these // default parameters to some other values by calling these functions. Or // disable the automatic shrinking entirely by setting the shrink factor to 1. trainer.set_iterations_without_progress_threshold(2000); trainer.set_learning_rate_shrink_factor(0.1); // The learning rate will start at 1e-3. trainer.set_learning_rate(1e-3); // Now, what if your training dataset is so big it doesn't fit in RAM? You // make mini-batches yourself, any way you like, and you send them to the // trainer by repeatedly calling trainer.train_one_step(). // // For example, the loop below stream MNIST data to out trainer. std::vector> mini_batch_samples; std::vector mini_batch_labels; dlib::rand rnd(time(0)); // Loop until the trainer's automatic shrinking has shrunk the learning rate to 1e-6. // Given our settings, this means it will stop training after it has shrunk the // learning rate 3 times. while(trainer.get_learning_rate() >= 1e-6) { mini_batch_samples.clear(); mini_batch_labels.clear(); // make a 128 image mini-batch while(mini_batch_samples.size() < 128) { auto idx = rnd.get_random_32bit_number()%training_images.size(); mini_batch_samples.push_back(training_images[idx]); mini_batch_labels.push_back(training_labels[idx]); } trainer.train_one_step(mini_batch_samples, mini_batch_labels); } // When you call train_one_step(), the trainer will do its processing in a // separate thread. This allows the main thread to work on loading data // while the trainer is busy executing the mini-batches in parallel. // However, this also means we need to wait for any mini-batches that are // still executing to stop before we mess with the net object. Calling // get_net() performs the necessary synchronization. trainer.get_net(); net.clean(); serialize("mnist_res_network.dat") << net; // Now we have a trained network. However, it has batch normalization // layers in it. As is customary, we should replace these with simple // affine layers before we use the network. This can be accomplished by // making a network type which is identical to net_type but with the batch // normalization layers replaced with affine. For example: using test_net_type = loss_multiclass_log> >>>>>>>>>>; // Then we can simply assign our trained net to our testing net. test_net_type tnet = net; // Or if you only had a file with your trained network you could deserialize // it directly into your testing network. deserialize("mnist_res_network.dat") >> tnet; // And finally, we can run the testing network over our data. std::vector predicted_labels = tnet(training_images); int num_right = 0; int num_wrong = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i < training_images.size(); ++i) { if (predicted_labels[i] == training_labels[i]) ++num_right; else ++num_wrong; } cout << "training num_right: " << num_right << endl; cout << "training num_wrong: " << num_wrong << endl; cout << "training accuracy: " << num_right/(double)(num_right+num_wrong) << endl; predicted_labels = tnet(testing_images); num_right = 0; num_wrong = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i < testing_images.size(); ++i) { if (predicted_labels[i] == testing_labels[i]) ++num_right; else ++num_wrong; } cout << "testing num_right: " << num_right << endl; cout << "testing num_wrong: " << num_wrong << endl; cout << "testing accuracy: " << num_right/(double)(num_right+num_wrong) << endl; } catch(std::exception& e) { cout << e.what() << endl; }