Figure 1: A regular 3-layer Neural Network.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are very similar to ordinary Neural Networks.
They are made up of neurons that have learnable weights and biases. Each neuron receives some inputs, performs a dot product and optionally follows it with a non-linearity. The whole network still expresses a single differentiable score function: from the raw image pixels on one end to class scores at the other. And they still have a loss function (for example Softmax) on the last (fully-connected) layer and all the tips/tricks we developed for learning regular Neural Networks still apply (back propagation, gradient descent etc etc).
What is the difference? CNN architectures make the explicit assumption that the inputs are images, which allows us to encode certain properties into the architecture. These then make the forward function more efficient to implement and vastly reduce the amount of parameters in the network.
Here we provide only a superficial overview, for the more interested, we recommend highly the course IN5400 – Machine Learning for Image Analysis and the slides of CS231.
As an example, consider an image of size \( 32\times 32\times 3 \) (32 wide, 32 high, 3 color channels), so a single fully-connected neuron in a first hidden layer of a regular Neural Network would have \( 32\times 32\times 3 = 3072 \) weights. This amount still seems manageable, but clearly this fully-connected structure does not scale to larger images. For example, an image of more respectable size, say \( 200\times 200\times 3 \), would lead to neurons that have \( 200\times 200\times 3 = 120,000 \) weights.
We could have several such neurons, and the parameters would add up quickly! Clearly, this full connectivity is wasteful and the huge number of parameters would quickly lead to possible overfitting.
Figure 1: A regular 3-layer Neural Network.
Convolutional Neural Networks take advantage of the fact that the input consists of images and they constrain the architecture in a more sensible way.
In particular, unlike a regular Neural Network, the layers of a CNN have neurons arranged in 3 dimensions: width, height, depth. (Note that the word depth here refers to the third dimension of an activation volume, not to the depth of a full Neural Network, which can refer to the total number of layers in a network.)
To understand it better, the above example of an image with an input volume of activations has dimensions \( 32\times 32\times 3 \) (width, height, depth respectively).
The neurons in a layer will only be connected to a small region of the layer before it, instead of all of the neurons in a fully-connected manner. Moreover, the final output layer could for this specific image have dimensions \( 1\times 1 \times 10 \), because by the end of the CNN architecture we will reduce the full image into a single vector of class scores, arranged along the depth dimension.
Figure 2: A CNN arranges its neurons in three dimensions (width, height, depth), as visualized in one of the layers. Every layer of a CNN transforms the 3D input volume to a 3D output volume of neuron activations. In this example, the red input layer holds the image, so its width and height would be the dimensions of the image, and the depth would be 3 (Red, Green, Blue channels).
A simple CNN is a sequence of layers, and every layer of a CNN transforms one volume of activations to another through a differentiable function. We use three main types of layers to build CNN architectures: Convolutional Layer, Pooling Layer, and Fully-Connected Layer (exactly as seen in regular Neural Networks). We will stack these layers to form a full CNN architecture.
A simple CNN for image classification could have the architecture:
CNNs transform the original image layer by layer from the original pixel values to the final class scores.
Observe that some layers contain parameters and other don’t. In particular, the CNN layers perform transformations that are a function of not only the activations in the input volume, but also of the parameters (the weights and biases of the neurons). On the other hand, the RELU/POOL layers will implement a fixed function. The parameters in the CONV/FC layers will be trained with gradient descent so that the class scores that the CNN computes are consistent with the labels in the training set for each image.
In summary:
As discussed above, CNNs are neural networks built from the assumption that the inputs to the network are 2D images. This is important because the number of features or pixels in images grows very fast with the image size, and an enormous number of weights and biases are needed in order to build an accurate network.
As before, we still have our input, a hidden layer and an output. What's novel about convolutional networks are the convolutional and pooling layers stacked in pairs between the input and the hidden layer. In addition, the data is no longer represented as a 2D feature matrix, instead each input is a number of 2D matrices, typically 1 for each color dimension (Red, Green, Blue).
It means that to represent the entire dataset of images, we require a 4D matrix or tensor. This tensor has the dimensions: $$ (n_{inputs},\, n_{pixels, width},\, n_{pixels, height},\, depth) . $$
The MNIST dataset consists of grayscale images with a pixel size of \( 28\times 28 \), meaning we require \( 28 \times 28 = 724 \) weights to each neuron in the first hidden layer.
If we were to analyze images of size \( 128\times 128 \) we would require \( 128 \times 128 = 16384 \) weights to each neuron. Even worse if we were dealing with color images, as most images are, we have an image matrix of size \( 128\times 128 \) for each color dimension (Red, Green, Blue), meaning 3 times the number of weights \( = 49152 \) are required for every single neuron in the first hidden layer.
Therefore, instead of connecting every single pixel to a neuron in the first hidden layer, as we have previously done with deep neural networks, we can instead connect each neuron to a small part of the image (in all 3 RGB depth dimensions). The size of each small area is fixed, and known as a receptive.
A convolution is performed on the image which outputs a 3D volume of neurons. The weights to the input are arranged in a number of 2D matrices, known as filters.
Each filter slides along the input image, taking the dot product between each small part of the image and the filter, in all depth dimensions. This is then passed through a non-linear function, typically the Rectified Linear (ReLu) function, which serves as the activation of the neurons in the first convolutional layer. This is further passed through a pooling layer, which reduces the size of the convolutional layer, e.g. by taking the maximum or average across some small regions, and this serves as input to the next convolutional layer.
By systematically reducing the size of the input volume, through convolution and pooling, the network should create representations of small parts of the input, and then from them assemble representations of larger areas. The final pooling layer is flattened to serve as input to a hidden layer, such that each neuron in the final pooling layer is connected to every single neuron in the hidden layer. This then serves as input to the output layer, e.g. a softmax output for classification.
# import necessary packages
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn import datasets
# ensure the same random numbers appear every time
np.random.seed(0)
# display images in notebook
%matplotlib inline
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (12,12)
# download MNIST dataset
digits = datasets.load_digits()
# define inputs and labels
inputs = digits.images
labels = digits.target
# RGB images have a depth of 3
# our images are grayscale so they should have a depth of 1
inputs = inputs[:,:,:,np.newaxis]
print("inputs = (n_inputs, pixel_width, pixel_height, depth) = " + str(inputs.shape))
print("labels = (n_inputs) = " + str(labels.shape))
# choose some random images to display
n_inputs = len(inputs)
indices = np.arange(n_inputs)
random_indices = np.random.choice(indices, size=5)
for i, image in enumerate(digits.images[random_indices]):
plt.subplot(1, 5, i+1)
plt.axis('off')
plt.imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.gray_r, interpolation='nearest')
plt.title("Label: %d" % digits.target[random_indices[i]])
plt.show()
from keras.utils import to_categorical
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
# representation of labels
labels = to_categorical(labels)
# split into train and test data
# one-liner from scikit-learn library
train_size = 0.8
test_size = 1 - train_size
X_train, X_test, Y_train, Y_test = train_test_split(inputs, labels, train_size=train_size,
test_size=test_size)
We need to define model and architecture and choose cost function and optmizer.
import tensorflow as tf
class ConvolutionalNeuralNetworkTensorflow:
def __init__(
self,
X_train,
Y_train,
X_test,
Y_test,
n_filters=10,
n_neurons_connected=50,
n_categories=10,
receptive_field=3,
stride=1,
padding=1,
epochs=10,
batch_size=100,
eta=0.1,
lmbd=0.0):
self.global_step = tf.Variable(0, dtype=tf.int32, trainable=False, name='global_step')
self.X_train = X_train
self.Y_train = Y_train
self.X_test = X_test
self.Y_test = Y_test
self.n_inputs, self.input_width, self.input_height, self.depth = X_train.shape
self.n_filters = n_filters
self.n_downsampled = int(self.input_width*self.input_height*n_filters / 4)
self.n_neurons_connected = n_neurons_connected
self.n_categories = n_categories
self.receptive_field = receptive_field
self.stride = stride
self.strides = [stride, stride, stride, stride]
self.padding = padding
self.epochs = epochs
self.batch_size = batch_size
self.iterations = self.n_inputs // self.batch_size
self.eta = eta
self.lmbd = lmbd
self.create_placeholders()
self.create_CNN()
self.create_loss()
self.create_optimiser()
self.create_accuracy()
def create_placeholders(self):
with tf.name_scope('data'):
self.X = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(None, self.input_width, self.input_height, self.depth), name='X_data')
self.Y = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(None, self.n_categories), name='Y_data')
def create_CNN(self):
with tf.name_scope('CNN'):
# Convolutional layer
self.W_conv = self.weight_variable([self.receptive_field, self.receptive_field, self.depth, self.n_filters], name='conv', dtype=tf.float32)
b_conv = self.weight_variable([self.n_filters], name='conv', dtype=tf.float32)
z_conv = tf.nn.conv2d(self.X, self.W_conv, self.strides, padding='SAME', name='conv') + b_conv
a_conv = tf.nn.relu(z_conv)
# 2x2 max pooling
a_pool = tf.nn.max_pool(a_conv, [1, 2, 2, 1], [1, 2, 2, 1], padding='SAME', name='pool')
# Fully connected layer
a_pool_flat = tf.reshape(a_pool, [-1, self.n_downsampled])
self.W_fc = self.weight_variable([self.n_downsampled, self.n_neurons_connected], name='fc', dtype=tf.float32)
b_fc = self.bias_variable([self.n_neurons_connected], name='fc', dtype=tf.float32)
a_fc = tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(a_pool_flat, self.W_fc) + b_fc)
# Output layer
self.W_out = self.weight_variable([self.n_neurons_connected, self.n_categories], name='out', dtype=tf.float32)
b_out = self.bias_variable([self.n_categories], name='out', dtype=tf.float32)
self.z_out = tf.matmul(a_fc, self.W_out) + b_out
def create_loss(self):
with tf.name_scope('loss'):
softmax_loss = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits_v2(labels=self.Y, logits=self.z_out))
regularizer_loss_conv = tf.nn.l2_loss(self.W_conv)
regularizer_loss_fc = tf.nn.l2_loss(self.W_fc)
regularizer_loss_out = tf.nn.l2_loss(self.W_out)
regularizer_loss = self.lmbd*(regularizer_loss_conv + regularizer_loss_fc + regularizer_loss_out)
self.loss = softmax_loss + regularizer_loss
def create_accuracy(self):
with tf.name_scope('accuracy'):
probabilities = tf.nn.softmax(self.z_out)
predictions = tf.argmax(probabilities, 1)
labels = tf.argmax(self.Y, 1)
correct_predictions = tf.equal(predictions, labels)
correct_predictions = tf.cast(correct_predictions, tf.float32)
self.accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(correct_predictions)
def create_optimiser(self):
with tf.name_scope('optimizer'):
self.optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(learning_rate=self.eta).minimize(self.loss, global_step=self.global_step)
def weight_variable(self, shape, name='', dtype=tf.float32):
initial = tf.truncated_normal(shape, stddev=0.1)
return tf.Variable(initial, name=name, dtype=dtype)
def bias_variable(self, shape, name='', dtype=tf.float32):
initial = tf.constant(0.1, shape=shape)
return tf.Variable(initial, name=name, dtype=dtype)
def fit(self):
data_indices = np.arange(self.n_inputs)
with tf.Session() as sess:
sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())
for i in range(self.epochs):
for j in range(self.iterations):
chosen_datapoints = np.random.choice(data_indices, size=self.batch_size, replace=False)
batch_X, batch_Y = self.X_train[chosen_datapoints], self.Y_train[chosen_datapoints]
sess.run([CNN.loss, CNN.optimizer],
feed_dict={CNN.X: batch_X,
CNN.Y: batch_Y})
accuracy = sess.run(CNN.accuracy,
feed_dict={CNN.X: batch_X,
CNN.Y: batch_Y})
step = sess.run(CNN.global_step)
self.train_loss, self.train_accuracy = sess.run([CNN.loss, CNN.accuracy],
feed_dict={CNN.X: self.X_train,
CNN.Y: self.Y_train})
self.test_loss, self.test_accuracy = sess.run([CNN.loss, CNN.accuracy],
feed_dict={CNN.X: self.X_test,
CNN.Y: self.Y_test})
We need now to train the model, evaluate it and test its performance on test data, and eventually include hyperparameters.
epochs = 100
batch_size = 100
n_filters = 10
n_neurons_connected = 50
n_categories = 10
eta_vals = np.logspace(-5, 1, 7)
lmbd_vals = np.logspace(-5, 1, 7)
CNN_tf = np.zeros((len(eta_vals), len(lmbd_vals)), dtype=object)
for i, eta in enumerate(eta_vals):
for j, lmbd in enumerate(lmbd_vals):
CNN = ConvolutionalNeuralNetworkTensorflow(X_train, Y_train, X_test, Y_test,
n_filters=n_filters, n_neurons_connected=n_neurons_connected,
n_categories=n_categories, epochs=epochs, batch_size=batch_size,
eta=eta, lmbd=lmbd)
CNN.fit()
print("Learning rate = ", eta)
print("Lambda = ", lmbd)
print("Test accuracy: %.3f" % CNN.test_accuracy)
print()
CNN_tf[i][j] = CNN
# visual representation of grid search
# uses seaborn heatmap, could probably do this in matplotlib
import seaborn as sns
sns.set()
train_accuracy = np.zeros((len(eta_vals), len(lmbd_vals)))
test_accuracy = np.zeros((len(eta_vals), len(lmbd_vals)))
for i in range(len(eta_vals)):
for j in range(len(lmbd_vals)):
CNN = CNN_tf[i][j]
train_accuracy[i][j] = CNN.train_accuracy
test_accuracy[i][j] = CNN.test_accuracy
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize = (10, 10))
sns.heatmap(train_accuracy, annot=True, ax=ax, cmap="viridis")
ax.set_title("Training Accuracy")
ax.set_ylabel("$\eta$")
ax.set_xlabel("$\lambda$")
plt.show()
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize = (10, 10))
sns.heatmap(test_accuracy, annot=True, ax=ax, cmap="viridis")
ax.set_title("Test Accuracy")
ax.set_ylabel("$\eta$")
ax.set_xlabel("$\lambda$")
plt.show()
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers.convolutional import Conv2D
from keras.layers.convolutional import MaxPooling2D
from keras.layers import Flatten
from keras.layers import Dense
from keras.regularizers import l2
from keras.optimizers import SGD
def create_convolutional_neural_network_keras(input_shape, receptive_field,
n_filters, n_neurons_connected, n_categories,
eta, lmbd):
model = Sequential()
model.add(Conv2D(n_filters, (receptive_field, receptive_field), input_shape=input_shape, padding='same',
activation='relu', kernel_regularizer=l2(lmbd)))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2, 2)))
model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Dense(n_neurons_connected, activation='relu', kernel_regularizer=l2(lmbd)))
model.add(Dense(n_categories, activation='softmax', kernel_regularizer=l2(lmbd)))
sgd = SGD(lr=eta)
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer=sgd, metrics=['accuracy'])
return model
epochs = 100
batch_size = 100
input_shape = X_train.shape[1:4]
receptive_field = 3
n_filters = 10
n_neurons_connected = 50
n_categories = 10
eta_vals = np.logspace(-5, 1, 7)
lmbd_vals = np.logspace(-5, 1, 7)
CNN_keras = np.zeros((len(eta_vals), len(lmbd_vals)), dtype=object)
for i, eta in enumerate(eta_vals):
for j, lmbd in enumerate(lmbd_vals):
CNN = create_convolutional_neural_network_keras(input_shape, receptive_field,
n_filters, n_neurons_connected, n_categories,
eta, lmbd)
CNN.fit(X_train, Y_train, epochs=epochs, batch_size=batch_size, verbose=0)
scores = CNN.evaluate(X_test, Y_test)
CNN_keras[i][j] = CNN
print("Learning rate = ", eta)
print("Lambda = ", lmbd)
print("Test accuracy: %.3f" % scores[1])
print()
# visual representation of grid search
# uses seaborn heatmap, could probably do this in matplotlib
import seaborn as sns
sns.set()
train_accuracy = np.zeros((len(eta_vals), len(lmbd_vals)))
test_accuracy = np.zeros((len(eta_vals), len(lmbd_vals)))
for i in range(len(eta_vals)):
for j in range(len(lmbd_vals)):
CNN = CNN_keras[i][j]
train_accuracy[i][j] = CNN.evaluate(X_train, Y_train)[1]
test_accuracy[i][j] = CNN.evaluate(X_test, Y_test)[1]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize = (10, 10))
sns.heatmap(train_accuracy, annot=True, ax=ax, cmap="viridis")
ax.set_title("Training Accuracy")
ax.set_ylabel("$\eta$")
ax.set_xlabel("$\lambda$")
plt.show()
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize = (10, 10))
sns.heatmap(test_accuracy, annot=True, ax=ax, cmap="viridis")
ax.set_title("Test Accuracy")
ax.set_ylabel("$\eta$")
ax.set_xlabel("$\lambda$")
plt.show()