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view stopper.py @ 298:5987415496df
better testing of the MultiLengthDataSet, now called exotic1
author | Thierry Bertin-Mahieux <bertinmt@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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date | Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:55:14 -0400 |
parents | cc96f93a7810 |
children | 40c8a46b3da7 |
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"""Early stopping iterators The idea here is to supply early-stopping heuristics that can be used in the form: stopper = SomeEarlyStopper() for i in stopper(): # train from data if i.set_score: i.score = validation_score So far I only have one heuristic, so maybe this won't scale. """ class Stopper(object): def train(self, data, update_rows_fn, update, validate, save=None): """Return the best model trained on data Parameters: data - a thing that accepts getitem(<list of int64>), or a tuple of such things update_rows_fn - fn : int --> <list or tensor of int> update - fn: update an internal model from elements of data validate - fn: evaluate an internal model based on elements of data save - fn: return a copy of the internal model The body of this function exhausts the <self> iterator, and trains a model using early stopping in the process. """ best = None for stp in self: i = stp.iter # call update on some training set rows t_rows = update_rows_fn(i) if isinstance(data, (tuple, list)): update(*[d[t_rows] for d in data]) else: update(data[t_rows]) if stp.set_score: stp.score = validate() if (stp.score < stp.best_score) and save: best = save() return best class ICML08Stopper(Stopper): @staticmethod def icml08(ntrain, batchsize): """Some setting similar to what I used for ICML08 submission""" #TODO: what did I actually use? put that in here. return ICML08Stopper(30*ntrain/batchsize, ntrain/batchsize, 0.96, 2.0, 100000000) def __init__(self, i_wait, v_int, min_improvement, patience, hard_limit): self.initial_wait = i_wait self.set_score_interval = v_int self.min_improvement = min_improvement self.patience = patience self.hard_limit = hard_limit self.best_score = float('inf') self.best_iter = -1 self.iter = -1 self.set_score = False self.score = None def __iter__(self): return self E_set_score = 'when iter.set_score is True, caller must assign a score to iter.score' def next(self): #print 'ICML08 stopper, were doing a next' if self.set_score: #left over from last time if self.score is None: raise Exception(ICML08Stopper.E_set_score) if self.score < (self.best_score * self.min_improvement): (self.best_score, self.best_iter) = (self.score, self.iter) self.score = None #un-set it starting = self.iter < self.initial_wait waiting = self.iter < (self.patience * self.best_iter) if starting or waiting: # continue to iterate self.iter += 1 if self.iter == self.hard_limit: raise StopIteration self.set_score = (self.iter % self.set_score_interval == 0) return self raise StopIteration class NStages(ICML08Stopper): """Run for a fixed number of steps, checking validation set every so often.""" def __init__(self, hard_limit, v_int): ICML08Stopper.__init__(self, hard_limit, v_int, 1.0, 1.0, hard_limit) #TODO: could optimize next() function. Most of what's in ICML08Stopper.next() #is not necessary