Welcome to the first assignment of "Improving Deep Neural Networks".
Training your neural network requires specifying an initial value of the weights. A well chosen initialization method will help learning.
If you completed the previous course of this specialization, you probably followed our instructions for weight initialization, and it has worked out so far. But how do you choose the initialization for a new neural network? In this notebook, you will see how different initializations lead to different results.
A well chosen initialization can:
Speed up the convergence of gradient descent
Increase the odds of gradient descent converging to a lower training (and generalization) error
To get started, run the following cell to load the packages and the planar dataset you will try to classify.
import numpy as npimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltimport sklearnimport sklearn.datasetsfrom init_utils import sigmoid, relu, compute_loss, forward_propagation, backward_propagationfrom init_utils import update_parameters, predict, load_dataset, plot_decision_boundary, predict_dec%matplotlib inlineplt.rcParams['figure.figsize']= (7.0,4.0) # set default size of plotsplt.rcParams['image.interpolation']='nearest'plt.rcParams['image.cmap']='gray'# load image dataset: blue/red dots in circlestrain_X, train_Y, test_X, test_Y =load_dataset()
You would like a classifier to separate the blue dots from the red dots.
1 - Neural Network model
You will use a 3-layer neural network (already implemented for you). Here are the initialization methods you will experiment with:
Zeros initialization
-- setting
initialization = "zeros"
in the input argument.
Random initialization
-- setting
initialization = "random"
in the input argument. This initializes the weights to large random values.
He initialization
-- setting
initialization = "he"
in the input argument. This initializes the weights to random values scaled according to a paper by He et al., 2015.
Instructions: Please quickly read over the code below, and run it. In the next part you will implement the three initialization methods that thismodel()calls.
defmodel(X,Y,learning_rate=0.01,num_iterations=15000,print_cost=True,initialization="he"):""" Implements a three-layer neural network: LINEAR->RELU->LINEAR->RELU->LINEAR->SIGMOID. Arguments: X -- input data, of shape (2, number of examples) Y -- true "label" vector (containing 0 for red dots; 1 for blue dots), of shape (1, number of examples) learning_rate -- learning rate for gradient descent num_iterations -- number of iterations to run gradient descent print_cost -- if True, print the cost every 1000 iterations initialization -- flag to choose which initialization to use ("zeros","random" or "he") Returns: parameters -- parameters learnt by the model """ grads ={} costs = [] # to keep track of the loss m = X.shape[1]# number of examples layers_dims = [X.shape[0],10,5,1]# Initialize parameters dictionary.if initialization =="zeros": parameters =initialize_parameters_zeros(layers_dims)elif initialization =="random": parameters =initialize_parameters_random(layers_dims)elif initialization =="he": parameters =initialize_parameters_he(layers_dims)# Loop (gradient descent)for i inrange(0, num_iterations):# Forward propagation: LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID. a3, cache =forward_propagation(X, parameters)# Loss cost =compute_loss(a3, Y)# Backward propagation. grads =backward_propagation(X, Y, cache)# Update parameters. parameters =update_parameters(parameters, grads, learning_rate)# Print the loss every 1000 iterationsif print_cost and i %1000==0:print("Cost after iteration {}: {}".format(i, cost)) costs.append(cost)# plot the loss plt.plot(costs) plt.ylabel('cost') plt.xlabel('iterations (per hundreds)') plt.title("Learning rate ="+str(learning_rate)) plt.show()return parameters
2 - Zero initialization
There are two types of parameters to initialize in a neural network:
the weight matrices(W[1],W[2],W[3],...,W[L−1],W[L])
the bias vectors(b[1],b[2],b[3],...,b[L−1],b[L])
Exercise: Implement the following function to initialize all parameters to zeros. You'll see later that this does not work well since it fails to "break symmetry", but lets try it anyway and see what happens. Use np.zeros((..,..)) with the correct shapes.
# GRADED FUNCTION: initialize_parameters_zeros definitialize_parameters_zeros(layers_dims):""" Arguments: layer_dims -- python array (list) containing the size of each layer. Returns: parameters -- python dictionary containing your parameters "W1", "b1", ..., "WL", "bL": W1 -- weight matrix of shape (layers_dims[1], layers_dims[0]) b1 -- bias vector of shape (layers_dims[1], 1) ... WL -- weight matrix of shape (layers_dims[L], layers_dims[L-1]) bL -- bias vector of shape (layers_dims[L], 1) """ parameters ={} L =len(layers_dims)# number of layers in the networkfor l inrange(1, L):### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code) parameters['W'+str(l)]= np.zeros((layers_dims[l], layers_dims[l -1])) parameters['b'+str(l)]= np.zeros((layers_dims[l], 1))### END CODE HERE ###return parameters
parameters =model(train_X, train_Y, initialization ="zeros")print ("On the train set:")predictions_train =predict(train_X, train_Y, parameters)print ("On the test set:")predictions_test =predict(test_X, test_Y, parameters)"""Cost after iteration 0: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 1000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 2000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 3000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 4000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 5000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 6000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 7000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 8000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 9000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 10000: 0.6931471805599455Cost after iteration 11000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 12000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 13000: 0.6931471805599453Cost after iteration 14000: 0.6931471805599453On the train set:Accuracy: 0.5On the test set:Accuracy: 0.5"""
The performance is really bad, and the cost does not really decrease, and the algorithm performs no better than random guessing. Why? Lets look at the details of the predictions and the decision boundary:
plt.title("Model with Zeros initialization")axes = plt.gca()axes.set_xlim([-1.5,1.5])axes.set_ylim([-1.5,1.5])plot_decision_boundary(lambdax: predict_dec(parameters, x.T), train_X, train_Y)
The model is predicting 0 for every example.
In general, initializing all the weights to zero results in the network failing to break symmetry. This means that every neuron in each layer will learn the same thing, and you might as well be training a neural network withn[l]=1n[l]=1for every layer, and the network is no more powerful than a linear classifier such as logistic regression.
What you should remember:
The weightsW[l]should be initialized randomly to break symmetry.
It is however okay to initialize the biaseb[l]to zeros. Symmetry is still broken so long asW[l]is initialized randomly.
3 - Random initialization
To break symmetry, lets intialize the weights randomly. Following random initialization, each neuron can then proceed to learn a different function of its inputs. In this exercise, you will see what happens if the weights are intialized randomly, but to very large values.
Exercise: Implement the following function to initialize your weights to large random values (scaled by *10) and your biases to zeros. Usenp.random.randn(..,..) * 10for weights andnp.zeros((.., ..))for biases. We are using a fixednp.random.seed(..)to make sure your "random" weights match ours, so don't worry if running several times your code gives you always the same initial values for the parameters.
# GRADED FUNCTION: initialize_parameters_randomdefinitialize_parameters_random(layers_dims):""" Arguments: layer_dims -- python array (list) containing the size of each layer. Returns: parameters -- python dictionary containing your parameters "W1", "b1", ..., "WL", "bL": W1 -- weight matrix of shape (layers_dims[1], layers_dims[0]) b1 -- bias vector of shape (layers_dims[1], 1) ... WL -- weight matrix of shape (layers_dims[L], layers_dims[L-1]) bL -- bias vector of shape (layers_dims[L], 1) """ np.random.seed(3)# This seed makes sure your "random" numbers will be the as ours parameters ={} L =len(layers_dims)# integer representing the number of layersfor l inrange(1, L):### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code) parameters['W'+str(l)]= np.random.randn(layers_dims[l], layers_dims[l -1])*10 parameters['b'+str(l)]= np.zeros((layers_dims[l], 1))### END CODE HERE ###return parameters
Run the following code to train your model on 15,000 iterations using random initialization.
parameters =model(train_X, train_Y, initialization ="random")print ("On the train set:")predictions_train =predict(train_X, train_Y, parameters)print ("On the test set:")predictions_test =predict(test_X, test_Y, parameters)
Cost after iteration 0: infCost after iteration 1000:0.6237287551108738Cost after iteration 2000:0.5981106708339466Cost after iteration 3000:0.5638353726276827Cost after iteration 4000:0.550152614449184Cost after iteration 5000:0.5444235275228304Cost after iteration 6000:0.5374184054630083Cost after iteration 7000:0.47357131493578297Cost after iteration 8000:0.39775634899580387Cost after iteration 9000:0.3934632865981078Cost after iteration 10000:0.39202525076484457Cost after iteration 11000:0.38921493051297673Cost after iteration 12000:0.38614221789840486Cost after iteration 13000:0.38497849983013926Cost after iteration 14000:0.38278397192120406On the train set:Accuracy:0.83On the test set:Accuracy:0.86
If you see "inf" as the cost after the iteration 0, this is because of numerical roundoff; a more numerically sophisticated implementation would fix this. But this isn't worth worrying about for our purposes.
Anyway, it looks like you have broken symmetry, and this gives better results. than before. The model is no longer outputting all 0s.
plt.title("Model with large random initialization")axes = plt.gca()axes.set_xlim([-1.5,1.5])axes.set_ylim([-1.5,1.5])plot_decision_boundary(lambdax: predict_dec(parameters, x.T), train_X, train_Y)
Observations:
The cost starts very high. This is because with large random-valued weights, the last activation (sigmoid) outputs results that are very close to 0 or 1 for some examples, and when it gets that example wrong it incurs a very high loss for that example. Indeed, whenlog(a[3])=log(0), the loss goes to infinity.
Poor initialization can lead to vanishing/exploding gradients, which also slows down the optimization algorithm.
If you train this network longer you will see better results, but initializing with overly large random numbers slows down the optimization.
In summary:
Initializing weights to very large random values does not work well.
Hopefully intializing with small random values does better. The important question is: how small should be these random values be? Lets find out in the next part!
4 - He initialization
Finally, try "He Initialization"; this is named for the first author of He et al., 2015. (If you have heard of "Xavier initialization", this is similar except Xavier initialization uses a scaling factor for the weightsW[l]ofsqrt(1./layers_dims[l-1])where He initialization would usesqrt(2./layers_dims[l-1]).)
Exercise: Implement the following function to initialize your parameters with He initialization.
Hint: This function is similar to the previousinitialize_parameters_random(...). The only difference is that instead of multiplyingnp.random.randn(..,..)by 10, you will multiply it bydimension of the previous layer2, which is what He initialization recommends for layers with a ReLU activation.
# GRADED FUNCTION: initialize_parameters_hedefinitialize_parameters_he(layers_dims):""" Arguments: layer_dims -- python array (list) containing the size of each layer. Returns: parameters -- python dictionary containing your parameters "W1", "b1", ..., "WL", "bL": W1 -- weight matrix of shape (layers_dims[1], layers_dims[0]) b1 -- bias vector of shape (layers_dims[1], 1) ... WL -- weight matrix of shape (layers_dims[L], layers_dims[L-1]) bL -- bias vector of shape (layers_dims[L], 1) """ np.random.seed(3) parameters ={} L =len(layers_dims)-1# integer representing the number of layersfor l inrange(1, L +1):### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code) parameters['W'+str(l)]= np.random.randn(layers_dims[l], layers_dims[l -1])*np.sqrt(2./layers_dims[l -1]) parameters['b'+str(l)]= np.zeros((layers_dims[l], 1))### END CODE HERE ###return parameters
Run the following code to train your model on 15,000 iterations using He initialization.
parameters =model(train_X, train_Y, initialization ="he")print ("On the train set:")predictions_train =predict(train_X, train_Y, parameters)print ("On the test set:")predictions_test =predict(test_X, test_Y, parameters)
Cost after iteration 0:0.8830537463419761Cost after iteration 1000:0.6879825919728063Cost after iteration 2000:0.6751286264523371Cost after iteration 3000:0.6526117768893807Cost after iteration 4000:0.6082958970572938Cost after iteration 5000:0.5304944491717495Cost after iteration 6000:0.4138645817071794Cost after iteration 7000:0.3117803464844441Cost after iteration 8000:0.23696215330322562Cost after iteration 9000:0.18597287209206836Cost after iteration 10000:0.1501555628037182Cost after iteration 11000:0.12325079292273548Cost after iteration 12000:0.09917746546525937Cost after iteration 13000:0.0845705595402428Cost after iteration 14000:0.07357895962677366On the train set:Accuracy:0.993333333333On the test set:Accuracy:0.96
plt.title("Model with He initialization")axes = plt.gca()axes.set_xlim([-1.5,1.5])axes.set_ylim([-1.5,1.5])plot_decision_boundary(lambdax: predict_dec(parameters, x.T), train_X, train_Y)
Observations:
The model with He initialization separates the blue and the red dots very well in a small number of iterations.
5 - Conclusions
You have seen three different types of initializations. For the same number of iterations and same hyperparameters the comparison is:
Model
Train accuracy
Problem/Comment
3-layer NN with zeros initialization
50%
fails to break symmetry
3-layer NN with large random initialization
83%
too large weights
3-layer NN with He initialization
99%
recommended method
What you should remember from this notebook:
Different initializations lead to different results
Random initialization is used to break symmetry and make sure different hidden units can learn different things
Don't intialize to values that are too large
He initialization works well for networks with ReLU activations.