Here, we'll demonstrate how to use mx.viz.plot_network
for visualizing your neural networks. mx.viz.plot_network
represents the neural network as a computation graph consisting of nodes and edges. The visualizations make clear which nodes correspond to inputs, where the computation starts, and which correspond to output nodes, from which the result can be read.
You need the Jupyter Notebook and Graphviz libraries to visualize the network. Please make sure you have followed installation instructions in setting up above dependencies along with setting up MXNet.
mx.viz.plot_network
takes Symbol, with your Network definition, and optional node_attrs, parameters for the shape of the node in the graph, as input and generates a computation graph.
We will now try to visualize a sample Neural Network for linear matrix factorization:
$ jupyter notebook
import mxnet as mx user = mx.symbol.Variable('user') item = mx.symbol.Variable('item') score = mx.symbol.Variable('score') # Set dummy dimensions k = 64 max_user = 100 max_item = 50 # user feature lookup user = mx.symbol.Embedding(data = user, input_dim = max_user, output_dim = k) # item feature lookup item = mx.symbol.Embedding(data = item, input_dim = max_item, output_dim = k) # predict by the inner product, which is elementwise product and then sum net = user * item net = mx.symbol.sum_axis(data = net, axis = 1) net = mx.symbol.Flatten(data = net) # loss layer net = mx.symbol.LinearRegressionOutput(data = net, label = score) # Visualize your network mx.viz.plot_network(net)
You should see computation graph something like the following image: