Source code for npdl.optimizers

"""
Functions to generate Theano update dictionaries for training.

The update functions implement different methods to control the learning
rate for use with stochastic gradient descent.

Update functions take a loss expression or a list of gradient expressions and
a list of parameters as input and return an ordered dictionary of updates:


Examples
--------
Using :class:`SGD` to define an update dictionary for a toy
example network:

>>> import npdl
>>> from npdl.activations import ReLU
>>> from npdl.activations import Softmax
>>> from npdl.objectives import SCCE
>>> model = npdl.model.Model()
>>> model.add(npdl.layers.Dense(n_out=100, n_in=50, activation=ReLU()))
>>> model.add(npdl.layers.Dense(n_out=200, activation=ReLU()))
>>> model.add(npdl.layers.Dense(n_out=100, activation=ReLU()))
>>> model.add(npdl.layers.Dense(n_out=10, activation=Softmax()))
>>> model.compile(loss=SCCE(), optimizer=npdl.optimizers.SGD(lr=0.005))

"""

import copy
import numpy as np

from .initializations import _zero


class Optimizer(object):
    """Abstract optimizer base class.

    Note: this is the parent class of all optimizers, not an actual optimizer
    that can be used for training models.

    Parameters
    ----------
    clip : float
        If smaller than 0, do not apply parameter clip.
    lr : float
        The learning rate controlling the size of update steps
    decay : float
        Decay parameter for the moving average. Must lie in [0, 1) where
        lower numbers means a shorter “memory”.
    lr_min : float
        When adapting step rates, do not move below this value. Default is 0.
    lr_max : float
        When adapting step rates, do not move above this value. Default is inf.
    """

    def __init__(self, lr=0.001, clip=-1, decay=0., lr_min=0., lr_max=np.inf):
        self.lr = lr
        self.clip = clip
        self.decay = decay
        self.lr_min = lr_min
        self.lr_max = lr_max

        self.iterations = 0

    def update(self, params, grads):
        """Update parameters.

        Parameters
        ----------
        params : list
            A list of parameters in model.
        grads : list
            A list of gradients in model.
        """
        self.iterations += 1

        self.lr *= (1. / 1 + self.decay * self.iterations)
        self.lr = np.clip(self.lr, self.lr_min, self.lr_max)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.__class__.__name__


[docs]class SGD(Optimizer): """Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) updates Generates update expressions of the form: * ``param := param - learning_rate * gradient`` """ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(SGD, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
[docs] def update(self, params, grads): for p, g in zip(params, grads): p -= self.lr * npdl_clip(g, self.clip) super(SGD, self).update(params, grads)
[docs]class Momentum(Optimizer): """Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) updates with momentum Generates update expressions of the form: * ``velocity := momentum * velocity - learning_rate * gradient`` * ``param := param + velocity`` Parameters ---------- momentum : float The amount of momentum to apply. Higher momentum results in smoothing over more update steps. Defaults to 0.9. Notes ----- Higher momentum also results in larger update steps. To counter that, you can optionally scale your learning rate by `1 - momentum`. """ def __init__(self, momentum=0.9, *args, **kwargs): super(Momentum, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.momentum = momentum self.velocity = None
[docs] def update(self, params, grads): # init the velocities if self.velocity is None: self.velocity = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] # update the parameters for i, (v, p, g) in enumerate(zip(self.velocity, params, grads)): v = self.momentum * v - self.lr * g p += v self.velocity[i] = v super(Momentum, self).update(params, grads)
[docs]class NesterovMomentum(Optimizer): """Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) updates with Nesterov momentum Generates update expressions of the form: * ``velocity := momentum * velocity - learning_rate * gradient`` * ``param := param + momentum * velocity - learning_rate * gradient`` Parameters ---------- momentum : float The amount of momentum to apply. Higher momentum results in smoothing over more update steps. Defaults to 0.9. Notes ----- Higher momentum also results in larger update steps. To counter that, you can optionally scale your learning rate by `1 - momentum`. The classic formulation of Nesterov momentum (or Nesterov accelerated gradient) requires the gradient to be evaluated at the predicted next position in parameter space. Here, we use the formulation described at https://github.com/lisa-lab/pylearn2/pull/136#issuecomment-10381617, which allows the gradient to be evaluated at the current parameters. """ def __init__(self, momentum=0.9, *args, **kwargs): super(NesterovMomentum, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.momentum = momentum self.velocity = None
[docs] def update(self, params, grads): # init the velocities if self.velocity is None: self.velocity = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] # update the parameters for i, (v, p, g) in enumerate(zip(self.velocity, params, grads)): v = self.momentum * v - self.lr * g p += (self.momentum * v - self.lr * g) self.velocity[i] = v super(NesterovMomentum, self).update(params, grads)
[docs]class Adagrad(Optimizer): """Adagrad updates Scale learning rates by dividing with the square root of accumulated squared gradients. See [1]_ for further description. Parameters ---------- epsilon : float Small value added for numerical stability. Notes ----- Using step size eta Adagrad calculates the learning rate for feature i at time step t as: .. math:: \\eta_{t,i} = \\frac{\\eta} {\\sqrt{\\sum^t_{t^\\prime} g^2_{t^\\prime,i}+\\epsilon}} g_{t,i} as such the learning rate is monotonically decreasing. Epsilon is not included in the typical formula, see [2]_. References ---------- .. [1] Duchi, J., Hazan, E., & Singer, Y. (2011): Adaptive subgradient methods for online learning and stochastic optimization. JMLR, 12:2121-2159. .. [2] Chris Dyer: Notes on AdaGrad. http://www.ark.cs.cmu.edu/cdyer/adagrad.pdf """ def __init__(self, epsilon=1e-6, *args, **kwargs): super(Adagrad, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.epsilon = epsilon self.cache = None
[docs] def update(self, params, grads): # init cache if self.cache is None: self.cache = [_zero(g.shape) for g in grads] # update parameters for i, (c, p, g) in enumerate(zip(self.cache, params, grads)): c += np.power(g, 2) p -= self.lr * g / (np.sqrt(c) + self.epsilon) self.cache[i] = c super(Adagrad, self).update(params, grads)
[docs]class RMSprop(Optimizer): """RMSProp updates Scale learning rates by dividing with the moving average of the root mean squared (RMS) gradients. See [1]_ for further description. Parameters ---------- rho : float Gradient moving average decay factor. epsilon : float Small value added for numerical stability. Notes ----- `rho` should be between 0 and 1. A value of `rho` close to 1 will decay the moving average slowly and a value close to 0 will decay the moving average fast. Using the step size :math:`\\eta` and a decay factor :math:`\\rho` the learning rate :math:`\\eta_t` is calculated as: .. math:: r_t &= \\rho r_{t-1} + (1-\\rho)*g^2\\\\ \\eta_t &= \\frac{\\eta}{\\sqrt{r_t + \\epsilon}} References ---------- .. [1] Tieleman, T. and Hinton, G. (2012): Neural Networks for Machine Learning, Lecture 6.5 - rmsprop. Coursera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3sxAc4hxZU (formula @5:20) """ def __init__(self, rho=0.9, epsilon=1e-6, *args, **kwargs): super(RMSprop, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.rho = rho self.epsilon = epsilon self.cache = None self.iterations = 0
[docs] def update(self, params, grads): # init cache if self.cache is None: self.cache = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] # update parameters for i, (c, p, g) in enumerate(zip(self.cache, params, grads)): c = self.rho * c + (1 - self.rho) * np.power(g, 2) p -= (self.lr * g / np.sqrt(c + self.epsilon)) self.cache[i] = c
[docs]class Adadelta(Optimizer): """ Adadelta updates Scale learning rates by the ratio of accumulated gradients to accumulated updates, see [1]_ and notes for further description. Parameters ---------- rho : float Gradient moving average decay factor. epsilon : float Small value added for numerical stability. decay : float Decay parameter for the moving average. Notes ----- rho should be between 0 and 1. A value of rho close to 1 will decay the moving average slowly and a value close to 0 will decay the moving average fast. rho = 0.95 and epsilon=1e-6 are suggested in the paper and reported to work for multiple datasets (MNIST, speech). In the paper, no learning rate is considered (so learning_rate=1.0). Probably best to keep it at this value. epsilon is important for the very first update (so the numerator does not become 0). Using the step size eta and a decay factor rho the learning rate is calculated as: .. math:: r_t &= \\rho r_{t-1} + (1-\\rho)*g^2\\\\ \\eta_t &= \\eta \\frac{\\sqrt{s_{t-1} + \\epsilon}} {\sqrt{r_t + \epsilon}}\\\\ s_t &= \\rho s_{t-1} + (1-\\rho)*(\\eta_t*g)^2 References ---------- .. [1] Zeiler, M. D. (2012): ADADELTA: An Adaptive Learning Rate Method. arXiv Preprint arXiv:1212.5701. """ def __init__(self, rho=0.9, epsilon=1e-6, *args, **kwargs): super(Adadelta, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.rho = rho self.epsilon = epsilon self.cache = None self.delta = None
[docs] def update(self, params, grads): # init cache and delta if self.cache is None: self.cache = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] if self.delta is None: self.delta = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] # update parameters for i, (c, d, p, g) in enumerate(zip(self.cache, self.delta, params, grads)): c = self.rho * c + (1 - self.rho) * np.power(g, 2) update = g * np.sqrt(d + self.epsilon) / np.sqrt(c + self.epsilon) p -= self.lr * update d = self.rho * d + (1 - self.rho) * np.power(update, 2) self.cache[i] = c self.delta[i] = d
[docs]class Adam(Optimizer): """Adam updates Adam updates implemented as in [1]_. Parameters ---------- beta1 : float Exponential decay rate for the first moment estimates. beta2 : float Exponential decay rate for the second moment estimates. epsilon : float Constant for numerical stability. Notes ----- The paper [1]_ includes an additional hyperparameter lambda. This is only needed to prove convergence of the algorithm and has no practical use (personal communication with the authors), it is therefore omitted here. References ---------- .. [1] Kingma, Diederik, and Jimmy Ba (2014): Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization. arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6980. """ def __init__(self, beta1=0.9, beta2=0.999, epsilon=1e-8, *args, **kwargs): super(Adam, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.beta1 = beta1 self.beta2 = beta2 self.epsilon = epsilon self.ms = None self.vs = None
[docs] def update(self, params, grads): # init self.iterations += 1 a_t = self.lr * np.sqrt(1 - np.power(self.beta2, self.iterations)) / \ (1 - np.power(self.beta1, self.iterations)) if self.ms is None: self.ms = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] if self.vs is None: self.vs = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] # update parameters for i, (m, v, p, g) in enumerate(zip(self.ms, self.vs, params, grads)): m = self.beta1 * m + (1 - self.beta1) * g v = self.beta2 * v + (1 - self.beta2) * np.power(g, 2) p -= a_t * m / (np.sqrt(v) + self.epsilon) self.ms[i] = m self.vs[i] = v
[docs]class Adamax(Optimizer): """Adamax updates Adamax updates implemented as in [1]_. This is a variant of of the Adam algorithm based on the infinity norm. Parameters ---------- beta1 : float Exponential decay rate for the first moment estimates. beta2 : float Exponential decay rate for the second moment estimates. epsilon : float Constant for numerical stability. References ---------- .. [1] Kingma, Diederik, and Jimmy Ba (2014): Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization. arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6980. """ def __init__(self, beta1=0.9, beta2=0.999, epsilon=1e-8, *args, **kwargs): super(Adamax, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.beta1 = beta1 self.beta2 = beta2 self.epsilon = epsilon self.ms = None self.vs = None
[docs] def update(self, params, grads): # init self.iterations += 1 a_t = self.lr / (1 - np.power(self.beta1, self.iterations)) if self.ms is None: self.ms = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] if self.vs is None: self.vs = [_zero(p.shape) for p in params] # update parameters for i, (m, v, p, g) in enumerate(zip(self.ms, self.vs, params, grads)): m = self.beta1 * m + (1 - self.beta1) * g v = np.maximum(self.beta2 * v, np.abs(g)) p -= a_t * m / (v + self.epsilon) self.ms[i] = m self.vs[i] = v
def npdl_clip(grad, boundary): if boundary > 0: return np.clip(grad, -boundary, boundary) else: return grad def get(optimizer): if optimizer.__class__.__name__ == 'str': if optimizer in ['sgd', 'SGD']: return SGD() if optimizer in ['momentum', 'Momentum']: return Momentum() if optimizer in ['nesterov_momentum', 'NesterovMomentum']: return NesterovMomentum() if optimizer in ['adagrad', 'Adagrad']: return Adagrad() if optimizer in ['rmsprop', 'RMSprop']: return RMSprop() if optimizer in ['adadelta', 'Adadelta']: return Adadelta() if optimizer in ['adam', 'Adam']: return Adam() if optimizer in ['adamax', 'Adamax']: return Adamax() raise ValueError('Unknown optimizer name: {}.'.format(optimizer)) elif isinstance(optimizer, Optimizer): return copy.deepcopy(optimizer) else: raise ValueError("Unknown type: {}.".format(optimizer.__class__.__name__))