layers_weightnormalization.ipynb

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TensorFlow Addons Layers: WeightNormalization

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Overview

This notebook will demonstrate how to use the Weight Normalization layer and how it can improve convergence.

WeightNormalization

A Simple Reparameterization to Accelerate Training of Deep Neural Networks:

Tim Salimans, Diederik P. Kingma (2016)

By reparameterizing the weights in this way you improve the conditioning of the optimization problem and speed up convergence of stochastic gradient descent. Our reparameterization is inspired by batch normalization but does not introduce any dependencies between the examples in a minibatch. This means that our method can also be applied successfully to recurrent models such as LSTMs and to noise-sensitive applications such as deep reinforcement learning or generative models, for which batch normalization is less well suited. Although our method is much simpler, it still provides much of the speed-up of full batch normalization. In addition, the computational overhead of our method is lower, permitting more optimization steps to be taken in the same amount of time.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07868

Setup

!pip install -U tensorflow-addons

import tensorflow as tf
import tensorflow_addons as tfa

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

# Hyper Parameters
batch_size = 32
epochs = 10
num_classes=10

Build Models

# Standard ConvNet
reg_model = tf.keras.Sequential([
    tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(6, 5, activation='relu'),
    tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(2, 2),
    tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(16, 5, activation='relu'),
    tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(2, 2),
    tf.keras.layers.Flatten(),
    tf.keras.layers.Dense(120, activation='relu'),
    tf.keras.layers.Dense(84, activation='relu'),
    tf.keras.layers.Dense(num_classes, activation='softmax'),
])

# WeightNorm ConvNet
wn_model = tf.keras.Sequential([
    tfa.layers.WeightNormalization(tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(6, 5, activation='relu')),
    tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(2, 2),
    tfa.layers.WeightNormalization(tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(16, 5, activation='relu')),
    tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(2, 2),
    tf.keras.layers.Flatten(),
    tfa.layers.WeightNormalization(tf.keras.layers.Dense(120, activation='relu')),
    tfa.layers.WeightNormalization(tf.keras.layers.Dense(84, activation='relu')),
    tfa.layers.WeightNormalization(tf.keras.layers.Dense(num_classes, activation='softmax')),
])

Load Data

(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = tf.keras.datasets.cifar10.load_data()

# Convert class vectors to binary class matrices.
y_train = tf.keras.utils.to_categorical(y_train, num_classes)
y_test = tf.keras.utils.to_categorical(y_test, num_classes)

x_train = x_train.astype('float32')
x_test = x_test.astype('float32')
x_train /= 255
x_test /= 255

Train Models

reg_model.compile(optimizer='adam', 
                  loss='categorical_crossentropy',
                  metrics=['accuracy'])

reg_history = reg_model.fit(x_train, y_train,
                            batch_size=batch_size,
                            epochs=epochs,
                            validation_data=(x_test, y_test),
                            shuffle=True)

wn_model.compile(optimizer='adam', 
                 loss='categorical_crossentropy',
                 metrics=['accuracy'])

wn_history = wn_model.fit(x_train, y_train,
                          batch_size=batch_size,
                          epochs=epochs,
                          validation_data=(x_test, y_test),
                          shuffle=True)

reg_accuracy = reg_history.history['accuracy']
wn_accuracy = wn_history.history['accuracy']

plt.plot(np.linspace(0, epochs,  epochs), reg_accuracy,
             color='red', label='Regular ConvNet')

plt.plot(np.linspace(0, epochs, epochs), wn_accuracy,
         color='blue', label='WeightNorm ConvNet')

plt.title('WeightNorm Accuracy Comparison')
plt.legend()
plt.grid(True)
plt.show()