cpp-package/example/mlp_cpu.cpp

/*!
 * Copyright (c) 2017 by Contributors
 * Xin Li yakumolx@gmail.com
 */
#include <chrono>
#include "mxnet-cpp/MxNetCpp.h"

using namespace std;
using namespace mxnet::cpp;

Symbol mlp(const vector<int> &layers) {
  auto x = Symbol::Variable("X");
  auto label = Symbol::Variable("label");

  vector<Symbol> weights(layers.size());
  vector<Symbol> biases(layers.size());
  vector<Symbol> outputs(layers.size());

  for (size_t i = 0; i < layers.size(); ++i) {
    weights[i] = Symbol::Variable("w" + to_string(i));
    biases[i] = Symbol::Variable("b" + to_string(i));
    Symbol fc = FullyConnected(
      i == 0? x : outputs[i-1],  // data
      weights[i],
      biases[i],
      layers[i]);
    outputs[i] = i == layers.size()-1 ? fc : Activation(fc, ActivationActType::kRelu);
  }

  return SoftmaxOutput(outputs.back(), label);
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
  const int image_size = 28;
  const vector<int> layers{128, 64, 10};
  const int batch_size = 100;
  const int max_epoch = 10;
  const float learning_rate = 0.1;
  const float weight_decay = 1e-2;

  auto train_iter = MXDataIter("MNISTIter")
      .SetParam("image", "./mnist_data/train-images-idx3-ubyte")
      .SetParam("label", "./mnist_data/train-labels-idx1-ubyte")
      .SetParam("batch_size", batch_size)
      .SetParam("flat", 1)
      .CreateDataIter();
  auto val_iter = MXDataIter("MNISTIter")
      .SetParam("image", "./mnist_data/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte")
      .SetParam("label", "./mnist_data/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte")
      .SetParam("batch_size", batch_size)
      .SetParam("flat", 1)
      .CreateDataIter();

  auto net = mlp(layers);

  Context ctx = Context::cpu();  // Use CPU for training

  std::map<string, NDArray> args;
  args["X"] = NDArray(Shape(batch_size, image_size*image_size), ctx);
  args["label"] = NDArray(Shape(batch_size), ctx);
  // Let MXNet infer shapes other parameters such as weights
  net.InferArgsMap(ctx, &args, args);

  // Initialize all parameters with uniform distribution U(-0.01, 0.01)
  auto initializer = Uniform(0.01);
  for (auto& arg : args) {
    // arg.first is parameter name, and arg.second is the value
    initializer(arg.first, &arg.second);
  }

  // Create sgd optimizer
  Optimizer* opt = OptimizerRegistry::Find("sgd");
  opt->SetParam("rescale_grad", 1.0/batch_size);

  // Start training
  for (int iter = 0; iter < max_epoch; ++iter) {
    int samples = 0;
    train_iter.Reset();

    auto tic = chrono::system_clock::now();
    while (train_iter.Next()) {
      samples += batch_size;
      auto data_batch = train_iter.GetDataBatch();
      // Set data and label
      args["X"] = data_batch.data;
      args["label"] = data_batch.label;

      // Create executor by binding parameters to the model
      auto *exec = net.SimpleBind(ctx, args);
      // Compute gradients
      exec->Forward(true);
      exec->Backward();
      // Update parameters
      exec->UpdateAll(opt, learning_rate, weight_decay);
      // Remember to free the memory
      delete exec;
    }
    auto toc = chrono::system_clock::now();

    Accuracy acc;
    val_iter.Reset();
    while (val_iter.Next()) {
      auto data_batch = val_iter.GetDataBatch();
      args["X"] = data_batch.data;
      args["label"] = data_batch.label;
      auto *exec = net.SimpleBind(ctx, args);
      // Forward pass is enough as no gradient is needed when evaluating
      exec->Forward(false);
      acc.Update(data_batch.label, exec->outputs[0]);
      delete exec;
    }
    float duration = chrono::duration_cast<chrono::milliseconds>(toc - tic).count() / 1000.0;
    LG << "Epoch: " << iter << " " << samples/duration << " samples/sec Accuracy: " << acc.Get();
  }

  MXNotifyShutdown();
  return 0;
}