chapter12_part04_variational-autoencoders.ipynb

Kernel: Python 3

This is a companion notebook for the book Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition. For readability, it only contains runnable code blocks and section titles, and omits everything else in the book: text paragraphs, figures, and pseudocode.

If you want to be able to follow what's going on, I recommend reading the notebook side by side with your copy of the book.

This notebook was generated for TensorFlow 2.6.

Generating images with variational autoencoders

Sampling from latent spaces of images

Concept vectors for image editing

Variational autoencoders

Implementing a VAE with Keras

VAE encoder network

from tensorflow import keras
from tensorflow.keras import layers

latent_dim = 2

encoder_inputs = keras.Input(shape=(28, 28, 1))
x = layers.Conv2D(32, 3, activation="relu", strides=2, padding="same")(encoder_inputs)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, 3, activation="relu", strides=2, padding="same")(x)
x = layers.Flatten()(x)
x = layers.Dense(16, activation="relu")(x)
z_mean = layers.Dense(latent_dim, name="z_mean")(x)
z_log_var = layers.Dense(latent_dim, name="z_log_var")(x)
encoder = keras.Model(encoder_inputs, [z_mean, z_log_var], name="encoder")

encoder.summary()

Latent-space-sampling layer

import tensorflow as tf

class Sampler(layers.Layer):
    def call(self, z_mean, z_log_var):
        batch_size = tf.shape(z_mean)[0]
        z_size = tf.shape(z_mean)[1]
        epsilon = tf.random.normal(shape=(batch_size, z_size))
        return z_mean + tf.exp(0.5 * z_log_var) * epsilon

VAE decoder network, mapping latent space points to images

latent_inputs = keras.Input(shape=(latent_dim,))
x = layers.Dense(7 * 7 * 64, activation="relu")(latent_inputs)
x = layers.Reshape((7, 7, 64))(x)
x = layers.Conv2DTranspose(64, 3, activation="relu", strides=2, padding="same")(x)
x = layers.Conv2DTranspose(32, 3, activation="relu", strides=2, padding="same")(x)
decoder_outputs = layers.Conv2D(1, 3, activation="sigmoid", padding="same")(x)
decoder = keras.Model(latent_inputs, decoder_outputs, name="decoder")

decoder.summary()

VAE model with custom train_step()

class VAE(keras.Model):
    def __init__(self, encoder, decoder, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(**kwargs)
        self.encoder = encoder
        self.decoder = decoder
        self.sampler = Sampler()
        self.total_loss_tracker = keras.metrics.Mean(name="total_loss")
        self.reconstruction_loss_tracker = keras.metrics.Mean(
            name="reconstruction_loss")
        self.kl_loss_tracker = keras.metrics.Mean(name="kl_loss")

    @property
    def metrics(self):
        return [self.total_loss_tracker,
                self.reconstruction_loss_tracker,
                self.kl_loss_tracker]

    def train_step(self, data):
        with tf.GradientTape() as tape:
            z_mean, z_log_var = self.encoder(data)
            z = self.sampler(z_mean, z_log_var)
            reconstruction = decoder(z)
            reconstruction_loss = tf.reduce_mean(
                tf.reduce_sum(
                    keras.losses.binary_crossentropy(data, reconstruction),
                    axis=(1, 2)
                )
            )
            kl_loss = -0.5 * (1 + z_log_var - tf.square(z_mean) - tf.exp(z_log_var))
            total_loss = reconstruction_loss + tf.reduce_mean(kl_loss)
        grads = tape.gradient(total_loss, self.trainable_weights)
        self.optimizer.apply_gradients(zip(grads, self.trainable_weights))
        self.total_loss_tracker.update_state(total_loss)
        self.reconstruction_loss_tracker.update_state(reconstruction_loss)
        self.kl_loss_tracker.update_state(kl_loss)
        return {
            "total_loss": self.total_loss_tracker.result(),
            "reconstruction_loss": self.reconstruction_loss_tracker.result(),
            "kl_loss": self.kl_loss_tracker.result(),
        }

Training the VAE

import numpy as np

(x_train, _), (x_test, _) = keras.datasets.mnist.load_data()
mnist_digits = np.concatenate([x_train, x_test], axis=0)
mnist_digits = np.expand_dims(mnist_digits, -1).astype("float32") / 255

vae = VAE(encoder, decoder)
vae.compile(optimizer=keras.optimizers.Adam(), run_eagerly=True)
vae.fit(mnist_digits, epochs=30, batch_size=128)

Sampling a grid of images from the 2D latent space

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

n = 30
digit_size = 28
figure = np.zeros((digit_size * n, digit_size * n))

grid_x = np.linspace(-1, 1, n)
grid_y = np.linspace(-1, 1, n)[::-1]

for i, yi in enumerate(grid_y):
    for j, xi in enumerate(grid_x):
        z_sample = np.array([[xi, yi]])
        x_decoded = vae.decoder.predict(z_sample)
        digit = x_decoded[0].reshape(digit_size, digit_size)
        figure[
            i * digit_size : (i + 1) * digit_size,
            j * digit_size : (j + 1) * digit_size,
        ] = digit

plt.figure(figsize=(15, 15))
start_range = digit_size // 2
end_range = n * digit_size + start_range
pixel_range = np.arange(start_range, end_range, digit_size)
sample_range_x = np.round(grid_x, 1)
sample_range_y = np.round(grid_y, 1)
plt.xticks(pixel_range, sample_range_x)
plt.yticks(pixel_range, sample_range_y)
plt.xlabel("z[0]")
plt.ylabel("z[1]")
plt.axis("off")
plt.imshow(figure, cmap="Greys_r")

Wrapping up