Accelerate training of neural networks using importance sampling.
Project description
This python package provides a library that accelerates the training of arbitrary neural networks created with Keras using importance sampling.
# Keras imports
from importance_sampling.training import ImportanceTraining
x_train, y_train, x_val, y_val = load_data()
model = create_keras_model()
model.compile(
optimizer="adam",
loss="categorical_crossentropy",
metrics=["accuracy"]
)
ImportanceTraining(model).fit(
x_train, y_train,
batch_size=32,
epochs=10,
verbose=1,
validation_data=(x_val, y_val)
)
model.evaluate(x_val, y_val)Importance sampling for Deep Learning is an active research field and this library is undergoing development so your mileage may vary.
Relevant Research
Ours
Not All Samples Are Created Equal: Deep Learning with Importance Sampling [preprint]
Biased Importance Sampling for Deep Neural Network Training [preprint]
By others
Dependencies & Installation
Normally if you already have a functional Keras installation you just need to pip install keras-importance-sampling.
Keras > 2
A Keras backend among Tensorflow, Theano and CNTK
blinker
numpy
matplotlib, seaborn, scikit-learn are optional (used by the plot scripts)
Documentation
The module has a dedicated documentation site but you can also read the source code and the examples to get an idea of how the library should be used and extended.
Examples
In the examples folder you can find some Keras examples that have been edited to use importance sampling.
Code examples
In this section we will showcase part of the API that can be used to train neural networks with importance sampling.
# Import what is needed to build the Keras model
from keras import backend as K
from keras.layers import Dense, Activation, Flatten
from keras.models import Sequential
# Import a toy dataset and the importance training
from importance_sampling.datasets import MNIST
from importance_sampling.training import ImportanceTraining
def create_nn():
"""Build a simple fully connected NN"""
model = Sequential([
Flatten(input_shape=(28, 28, 1)),
Dense(40, activation="tanh"),
Dense(40, activation="tanh"),
Dense(10),
Activation("softmax") # Needs to be separate to automatically
# get the preactivation outputs
])
model.compile(
optimizer="adam",
loss="categorical_crossentropy",
metrics=["accuracy"]
)
return model
if __name__ == "__main__":
# Load the data
dataset = MNIST()
x_train, y_train = dataset.train_data[:]
x_test, y_test = dataset.test_data[:]
# Create the NN and keep the initial weights
model = create_nn()
weights = model.get_weights()
# Train with uniform sampling
K.set_value(model.optimizer.lr, 0.01)
model.fit(
x_train, y_train,
batch_size=64, epochs=10,
validation_data=(x_test, y_test)
)
# Train with importance sampling
model.set_weights(weights)
K.set_value(model.optimizer.lr, 0.01)
ImportanceTraining(model).fit(
x_train, y_train,
batch_size=64, epochs=2,
validation_data=(x_test, y_test)
)Using the script
The following terminal commands train a small VGG-like network to ~0.65% error on MNIST (the numbers are from a CPU). .. code:
$ # Train a small cnn with mnist for 500 mini-batches using importance $ # sampling with bias to achieve ~ 0.65% error (on the CPU). $ time ./importance_sampling.py \ > small_cnn \ > oracle-gnorm \ > model \ > predicted \ > mnist \ > /tmp/is \ > --hyperparams 'batch_size=i128;lr=f0.003;lr_reductions=I10000' \ > --train_for 500 --validate_every 500 real 1m41.985s user 8m14.400s sys 0m35.900s $ $ # And with uniform sampling to achieve ~ 0.9% error. $ time ./importance_sampling.py \ > small_cnn \ > oracle-loss \ > uniform \ > unweighted \ > mnist \ > /tmp/uniform \ > --hyperparams 'batch_size=i128;lr=f0.003;lr_reductions=I10000' \ > --train_for 3000 --validate_every 3000 real 9m23.971s user 47m32.600s sys 3m4.188s
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