SimpleChains

ADAM(η = 0.001, β = (0.9, 0.999))

ADAM optimizer.

AbsoluteLoss

Calculates mean absolute loss of the target.

AbstractPenalty

The AbstractPenalty interface requires supporting the following methods:

1. getchain(::AbstractPenalty)::SimpleChain returns a SimpleChain if it is carrying one.
2. apply_penalty(::AbstractPenalty, params)::Number returns the penalty
3. apply_penalty!(grad, ::AbstractPenalty, params)::Number returns the penalty and updates grad to add the gradient.

Activation(activation)

Applies activation function elementwise.

Conv(activation, dims::Tuple{Vararg{Integer}}, outputdim::Integer)

Performs a convolution with dims and maps it to outputdim output channels, then adds a bias (one per outputdim) and applies activation elementwise.

E.g., Conv(relu, (5, 5), 16) performs a 5 × 5 convolution, and maps the input channels to 16 output channels, before adding a bias and applying relu.

Randomly initializing weights using the (Xavier) Glorot uniform distribution. The bias is zero-initialized.

Dropout(p) # 0 < p < 1

Dropout layer.

When evaluated without gradients, it multiplies inputs by (1 - p). When evaluated with gradients, it randomly zeros p proportion of inputs.

Flatten{N}()

Flattens the first N dimensions. E.g.,

julia> Flatten{2}()(rand(2,3,4))
6×4 Matrix{Float64}:
 0.0609115  0.597285  0.279899  0.888223
 0.0667422  0.315741  0.351003  0.805629
 0.678297   0.350817  0.984215  0.399418
 0.125801   0.566696  0.96873   0.57744
 0.331961   0.350742  0.59598   0.741998
 0.26345    0.144635  0.076433  0.330475

FrontLastPenalty(SimpleChain, frontpen(λ₁...), lastpen(λ₂...))

Applies frontpen to all but the last layer, applying lastpen to the last layer instead. "Last layer" here ignores the loss function, i.e. if the last element of the chain is a loss layer, the then lastpen applies to the layer preceding this.

L1Penalty(λ)

Applies a L1 penalty of λ to parameters, i.e. penalizing by their absolute value.

L2Penalty(λ)

Applies a L2 penalty of λ to parameters, i.e. penalizing by their squares.

LogitCrossEntropyLoss

Calculates mean logit cross-entropy loss.

MaxPool(dims::Tuple{Vararg{Integer}}

Calculates the maximum of pools of size dims.

SimpleChain([inputdim::Union{Integer,Tuple{Vararg{Integer}}, ] layers)

Construct a SimpleChain. Optional inputdim argument allows SimpleChains to check the size of inputs. Making these static will allow SimpleChains to infer size and loop bounds at compile time. Batch size generally should not be included in the inputdim. If inputdim is not specified, some methods, e.g. init_params, will require passing the size as an additional argument, because the number of parameters may be a function of the input size (e.g., for a TurboDense layer).

The layers argument holds various SimpleChains layers, e.g. TurboDense, Conv, Activation, Flatten, Dropout, or MaxPool. It may optionally terminate in an AbstractLoss layer.

These objects are callable, e.g.

c = SimpleChain(...);
p = SimpleChains.init_params(c);
c(X, p) # X are the independent variables, and `p` the parameter vector.

SquaredLoss(target)

Calculates half of mean squared loss of the target.

TurboDense{B=true}(activation, outputdim::Integer)

Linear (dense) layer.

• B specifies whether the layer includes a bias term.
• The activation function is applied elementwise to the result.
• outputdim indicates how many dimensions the input is mapped to.

Randomly initializing weights using the (Xavier) Glorot normal distribution. The bias is zero-initialized.

Base.front(c::SimpleChain)

Useful for popping off a loss layer.

add_loss(chn, l::AbstractLoss)

Add the loss function l to the simple chain. The loss function should hold the target you're trying to fit.

alloc_threaded_grad(chn, id = nothing, ::Type{T} = Float32; numthreads = min(Threads.nthreads(), SimpleChains.num_cores())

Returns a preallocated array for writing gradients, for use with train_batched and train_unbatched. If Julia was started with multiple threads, returns a matrix with one column per thread, so they may accumulate gradients in parallel.

Note that the memory is aligned to avoid false sharing.

biases(sc::SimpleChain, p::AbstractVector, inputdim = nothing)

Returns a tuple of the biases of the SimpleChain sc, as a view of the parameter vector p.

SimpleChains.init_params!(chn, p, id = nothing)

Randomly initializes parameter vector p with input dim id. Input dim does not need to be specified if these were provided to the chain object itself. See the documentation of the individual layers to see how they are initialized, but it is generally via (Xavier) Glorot uniform or normal distributions.

SimpleChains.init_params(chn[, id = nothing][, ::Type{T} = Float32])

Creates a parameter vector of element type T with size matching that by id (argument not required if provided to the chain object itself). See the documentation of the individual layers to see how they are initialized, but it is generally via (Xavier) Glorot uniform or normal distributions.

numparam(d::Layer, inputdim::Tuple)

Returns a Tuple{Int,S}. The first element is the number of parameters required by the layer given an argument of size inputdim. The second argument is the size of the object returned by the layer, which can be fed into numparam of the following layer.

params(sc::SimpleChain, p::AbstractVector, inputdim = nothing)

Returns a tuple of the parameters of the SimpleChain sc, as a view of the parameter vector p.

train_batched!(g::AbstractVecOrMat, p, chn, X, opt, iters; batchsize = nothing)

Train while batching arguments.

Arguments:

• g pre-allocated gradient buffer. Can be allocated with similar(p) (if you want to run single threaded), or alloc_threaded_grad(chn, size(X)) (size(X) argument is only necessary if the input dimension was not specified when constructing the chain). If a matrix, the number of columns gives how many threads to use. Do not use more threads than batch size would allow.
• p is the parameter vector. It is updated inplace. It should be pre-initialized, e.g. with init_params/init_params!. This is to allow calling train_unbatched! several times to train in increments.
• chn is the SimpleChain. It must include a loss (see SimpleChains.add_loss) containing the target information (dependent variables) you're trying to fit.
• X the training data input argument (independent variables).
• opt is the optimizer. Currently, only SimpleChains.ADAM is supported.
• iters, how many iterations to train for.
• batchsize keyword argument: the size of the batches to use. If batchsize = nothing, it'll try to do a half-decent job of picking the batch size for you. However, this is not well optimized at the moment.

train_unbatched!([g::AbstractVecOrMat, ]p, chn, X, opt, iters)

Train without batching inputs.

Arguments:

• g pre-allocated gradient buffer. Can be allocated with similar(p) (if you want to run single threaded), or alloc_threaded_grad(chn, size(X)) (size(X) argument is only necessary if the input dimension was not specified when constructing the chain). If a matrix, the number of columns gives how many threads to use. Do not use more threads than batch size would allow. This argument is optional. If excluded, it will run multithreaded (assuming you started Julia with multiple threads).
• p is the parameter vector. It is updated inplace. It should be pre-initialized, e.g. with init_params/init_params!. This is to allow calling train_unbatched! several times to train in increments.
• chn is the SimpleChain. It must include a loss (see SimpleChains.add_loss) containing the target information (dependent variables) you're trying to fit.
• X the training data input argument (independent variables).
• opt is the optimizer. Currently, only SimpleChains.ADAM is supported.
• iters, how many iterations to train for.

Allowed destruction:

valgrad_layer!

Accepts return of previous layer (B) and returns an ouput C. If an internal layer, allowed to destroy B (e.g. dropout layer).

pullback!

Accepts adjoint of its return (C̄). It is allowed to destroy this. It is also allowed to destroy the previous layer's return B to produce B̄ (the C̄ it receives). Thus, the pullback is not allowed to depend on C, as it may have been destroyed in producing C̄.

weights(sc::SimpleChain, p::AbstractVector, inputdim = nothing)

Returns a tuple of the weights (parameters other than biases) of the SimpleChain sc, as a view of the parameter vector p.