TensorFlow - 将L2正则化和丢失引入网络。它有意义吗？

Question

我目前正在玩ANN，这是Udactity DeepLearning课程的一部分。

我成功构建并培训了网络，并在所有权重和偏差上引入了L2正则化。现在我正在尝试隐藏图层的丢失，以便改进泛化。我想知道，将L2正则化引入隐藏层并在同一层上丢失是否有意义？如果是这样，如何正确地做到这一点？

在辍学期间，我们实际上会关闭隐藏层的一半激活，并将其余神经元输出的数量加倍。在使用L2时，我们计算所有隐藏权重的L2范数。但我不知道如何使用dropout来计算L2。我们关闭了一些激活措施，我们不应该删除未使用的权重＆＃39;现在从L2计算？关于这个问题的任何参考都是有用的，我还没有找到任何信息。

如果您感兴趣，我的具有L2正规化的ANN代码如下：

#for NeuralNetwork model code is below
#We will use SGD for training to save our time. Code is from Assignment 2
#beta is the new parameter - controls level of regularization. Default is 0.01
#but feel free to play with it
#notice, we introduce L2 for both biases and weights of all layers

beta = 0.01

#building tensorflow graph
graph = tf.Graph()
with graph.as_default():
      # Input data. For the training data, we use a placeholder that will be fed
  # at run time with a training minibatch.
  tf_train_dataset = tf.placeholder(tf.float32,
                                    shape=(batch_size, image_size * image_size))
  tf_train_labels = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(batch_size, num_labels))
  tf_valid_dataset = tf.constant(valid_dataset)
  tf_test_dataset = tf.constant(test_dataset)

  #now let's build our new hidden layer
  #that's how many hidden neurons we want
  num_hidden_neurons = 1024
  #its weights
  hidden_weights = tf.Variable(
    tf.truncated_normal([image_size * image_size, num_hidden_neurons]))
  hidden_biases = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_hidden_neurons]))

  #now the layer itself. It multiplies data by weights, adds biases
  #and takes ReLU over result
  hidden_layer = tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(tf_train_dataset, hidden_weights) + hidden_biases)

  #time to go for output linear layer
  #out weights connect hidden neurons to output labels
  #biases are added to output labels  
  out_weights = tf.Variable(
    tf.truncated_normal([num_hidden_neurons, num_labels]))  

  out_biases = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_labels]))  

  #compute output  
  out_layer = tf.matmul(hidden_layer,out_weights) + out_biases
  #our real output is a softmax of prior result
  #and we also compute its cross-entropy to get our loss
  #Notice - we introduce our L2 here
  loss = (tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(
    out_layer, tf_train_labels) +
    beta*tf.nn.l2_loss(hidden_weights) +
    beta*tf.nn.l2_loss(hidden_biases) +
    beta*tf.nn.l2_loss(out_weights) +
    beta*tf.nn.l2_loss(out_biases)))

  #now we just minimize this loss to actually train the network
  optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.5).minimize(loss)

  #nice, now let's calculate the predictions on each dataset for evaluating the
  #performance so far
  # Predictions for the training, validation, and test data.
  train_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(out_layer)
  valid_relu = tf.nn.relu(  tf.matmul(tf_valid_dataset, hidden_weights) + hidden_biases)
  valid_prediction = tf.nn.softmax( tf.matmul(valid_relu, out_weights) + out_biases) 

  test_relu = tf.nn.relu( tf.matmul( tf_test_dataset, hidden_weights) + hidden_biases)
  test_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(test_relu, out_weights) + out_biases)



#now is the actual training on the ANN we built
#we will run it for some number of steps and evaluate the progress after 
#every 500 steps

#number of steps we will train our ANN
num_steps = 3001

#actual training
with tf.Session(graph=graph) as session:
  tf.initialize_all_variables().run()
  print("Initialized")
  for step in range(num_steps):
    # Pick an offset within the training data, which has been randomized.
    # Note: we could use better randomization across epochs.
    offset = (step * batch_size) % (train_labels.shape[0] - batch_size)
    # Generate a minibatch.
    batch_data = train_dataset[offset:(offset + batch_size), :]
    batch_labels = train_labels[offset:(offset + batch_size), :]
    # Prepare a dictionary telling the session where to feed the minibatch.
    # The key of the dictionary is the placeholder node of the graph to be fed,
    # and the value is the numpy array to feed to it.
    feed_dict = {tf_train_dataset : batch_data, tf_train_labels : batch_labels}
    _, l, predictions = session.run(
      [optimizer, loss, train_prediction], feed_dict=feed_dict)
    if (step % 500 == 0):
      print("Minibatch loss at step %d: %f" % (step, l))
      print("Minibatch accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(predictions, batch_labels))
      print("Validation accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(
        valid_prediction.eval(), valid_labels))
      print("Test accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(test_prediction.eval(), test_labels))

Answer 1

好的，经过一些额外的努力，我设法解决了它并将L2和dropout引入我的网络，代码如下。在没有丢失的情况下，我在相同的网络上获得了轻微的改进（L2就位）。我仍然不确定是否真的值得努力引入它们，L2和辍学，但至少它起作用并略微改善结果。

#ANN with introduced dropout
#This time we still use the L2 but restrict training dataset
#to be extremely small

#get just first 500 of examples, so that our ANN can memorize whole dataset
train_dataset_2 = train_dataset[:500, :]
train_labels_2 = train_labels[:500]

#batch size for SGD and beta parameter for L2 loss
batch_size = 128
beta = 0.001

#that's how many hidden neurons we want
num_hidden_neurons = 1024

#building tensorflow graph
graph = tf.Graph()
with graph.as_default():
  # Input data. For the training data, we use a placeholder that will be fed
  # at run time with a training minibatch.
  tf_train_dataset = tf.placeholder(tf.float32,
                                    shape=(batch_size, image_size * image_size))
  tf_train_labels = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(batch_size, num_labels))
  tf_valid_dataset = tf.constant(valid_dataset)
  tf_test_dataset = tf.constant(test_dataset)

  #now let's build our new hidden layer
  #its weights
  hidden_weights = tf.Variable(
    tf.truncated_normal([image_size * image_size, num_hidden_neurons]))
  hidden_biases = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_hidden_neurons]))

  #now the layer itself. It multiplies data by weights, adds biases
  #and takes ReLU over result
  hidden_layer = tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(tf_train_dataset, hidden_weights) + hidden_biases)

  #add dropout on hidden layer
  #we pick up the probabylity of switching off the activation
  #and perform the switch off of the activations
  keep_prob = tf.placeholder("float")
  hidden_layer_drop = tf.nn.dropout(hidden_layer, keep_prob)  

  #time to go for output linear layer
  #out weights connect hidden neurons to output labels
  #biases are added to output labels  
  out_weights = tf.Variable(
    tf.truncated_normal([num_hidden_neurons, num_labels]))  

  out_biases = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_labels]))  

  #compute output
  #notice that upon training we use the switched off activations
  #i.e. the variaction of hidden_layer with the dropout active
  out_layer = tf.matmul(hidden_layer_drop,out_weights) + out_biases
  #our real output is a softmax of prior result
  #and we also compute its cross-entropy to get our loss
  #Notice - we introduce our L2 here
  loss = (tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(
    out_layer, tf_train_labels) +
    beta*tf.nn.l2_loss(hidden_weights) +
    beta*tf.nn.l2_loss(hidden_biases) +
    beta*tf.nn.l2_loss(out_weights) +
    beta*tf.nn.l2_loss(out_biases)))

  #now we just minimize this loss to actually train the network
  optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.5).minimize(loss)

  #nice, now let's calculate the predictions on each dataset for evaluating the
  #performance so far
  # Predictions for the training, validation, and test data.
  train_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(out_layer)
  valid_relu = tf.nn.relu(  tf.matmul(tf_valid_dataset, hidden_weights) + hidden_biases)
  valid_prediction = tf.nn.softmax( tf.matmul(valid_relu, out_weights) + out_biases) 

  test_relu = tf.nn.relu( tf.matmul( tf_test_dataset, hidden_weights) + hidden_biases)
  test_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(test_relu, out_weights) + out_biases)



#now is the actual training on the ANN we built
#we will run it for some number of steps and evaluate the progress after 
#every 500 steps

#number of steps we will train our ANN
num_steps = 3001

#actual training
with tf.Session(graph=graph) as session:
  tf.initialize_all_variables().run()
  print("Initialized")
  for step in range(num_steps):
    # Pick an offset within the training data, which has been randomized.
    # Note: we could use better randomization across epochs.
    offset = (step * batch_size) % (train_labels_2.shape[0] - batch_size)
    # Generate a minibatch.
    batch_data = train_dataset_2[offset:(offset + batch_size), :]
    batch_labels = train_labels_2[offset:(offset + batch_size), :]
    # Prepare a dictionary telling the session where to feed the minibatch.
    # The key of the dictionary is the placeholder node of the graph to be fed,
    # and the value is the numpy array to feed to it.
    feed_dict = {tf_train_dataset : batch_data, tf_train_labels : batch_labels, keep_prob : 0.5}
    _, l, predictions = session.run(
      [optimizer, loss, train_prediction], feed_dict=feed_dict)
    if (step % 500 == 0):
      print("Minibatch loss at step %d: %f" % (step, l))
      print("Minibatch accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(predictions, batch_labels))
      print("Validation accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(
        valid_prediction.eval(), valid_labels))
      print("Test accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(test_prediction.eval(), test_labels))

Answer 2

使用多个正则化没有任何缺点。实际上有一篇论文Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting，其中作者检查了它有多大帮助。显然，对于不同的数据集，您将获得不同的结果，但对于您的MNIST：

你可以看到<form action="#" method="post" id="myForm"> <label for="s1"> Tree Number <select id="s1"> <option value="1">1</option> <option value="2">2</option> </select> </label><br> <label for="s2"> Tree Height <select id="s2"> <option value="1">1 story house</option> <option value="2">2 story house</option> </select> </label> <div id="result">Result Displays Here</div> </form>给出了最低的错误。除此之外，您的代码中存在大错误。

你在权重和偏见上使用l2_loss：

Dropout + Max-norm

你不应该惩罚高偏见。因此，在偏见中移除l2_loss。

Answer 3

实际上，除了辍学之外，原始论文使用max-norm正则化而不是L2： “神经网络在约束条件下进行了优化|| w ||2≤c 在优化期间，通过将w投射到半径为c的球的表面上，每当w离开它时，施加约束。这也称为最大范数正则化，因为它意味着任何权重的范数可以采用的最大值是c“（http://jmlr.org/papers/volume15/srivastava14a/srivastava14a.pdf）

您可以在此处找到关于此正则化方法的精彩讨论：https://plus.google.com/+IanGoodfellow/posts/QUaCJfvDpni