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Tensorboard - PyTorch Beginner 16

In this part we will learn about the TensorBoard and how we can use it to visualize and analyze our models.


Learn all the basics you need to get started with this deep learning framework! In this part we will learn about the TensorBoard and how we can use it to visualize and analyze our models. TensorBoard is a visualization toolkit that provides the visualization and tooling needed for machine learning experimentation:

We will learn: - How to install and use the TensorBoard in Pytorch - How to add images - How to add a model graph - How to visualize loss and accuracy during training - How to plot precision-recall curves

All code from this course can be found on GitHub.

Further readings

How to Log for Tensorboard

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torchvision
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

############## TENSORBOARD ########################
import sys
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
# default `log_dir` is "runs" - we'll be more specific here
writer = SummaryWriter('runs/mnist1')
###################################################

# Device configuration
device = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')

# Hyper-parameters 
input_size = 784 # 28x28
hidden_size = 500 
num_classes = 10
num_epochs = 1
batch_size = 64
learning_rate = 0.001

# MNIST dataset 
train_dataset = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(root='./data', 
                                           train=True, 
                                           transform=transforms.ToTensor(),  
                                           download=True)

test_dataset = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(root='./data', 
                                          train=False, 
                                          transform=transforms.ToTensor())

# Data loader
train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset=train_dataset, 
                                           batch_size=batch_size, 
                                           shuffle=True)

test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset=test_dataset, 
                                          batch_size=batch_size, 
                                          shuffle=False)

examples = iter(test_loader)
example_data, example_targets = examples.next()

for i in range(6):
    plt.subplot(2,3,i+1)
    plt.imshow(example_data[i][0], cmap='gray')
#plt.show()

############## TENSORBOARD ########################
img_grid = torchvision.utils.make_grid(example_data)
writer.add_image('mnist_images', img_grid)
#writer.close()
#sys.exit()
###################################################

# Fully connected neural network with one hidden layer
class NeuralNet(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, input_size, hidden_size, num_classes):
        super(NeuralNet, self).__init__()
        self.input_size = input_size
        self.l1 = nn.Linear(input_size, hidden_size) 
        self.relu = nn.ReLU()
        self.l2 = nn.Linear(hidden_size, num_classes)  

    def forward(self, x):
        out = self.l1(x)
        out = self.relu(out)
        out = self.l2(out)
        # no activation and no softmax at the end
        return out

model = NeuralNet(input_size, hidden_size, num_classes).to(device)

# Loss and optimizer
criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=learning_rate)  

############## TENSORBOARD ########################
writer.add_graph(model, example_data.reshape(-1, 28*28))
#writer.close()
#sys.exit()
###################################################

# Train the model
running_loss = 0.0
running_correct = 0
n_total_steps = len(train_loader)
for epoch in range(num_epochs):
    for i, (images, labels) in enumerate(train_loader):  
        # origin shape: [100, 1, 28, 28]
        # resized: [100, 784]
        images = images.reshape(-1, 28*28).to(device)
        labels = labels.to(device)

        # Forward pass
        outputs = model(images)
        loss = criterion(outputs, labels)

        # Backward and optimize
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()

        running_loss += loss.item()

        _, predicted = torch.max(outputs.data, 1)
        running_correct += (predicted == labels).sum().item()
        if (i+1) % 100 == 0:
            print (f'Epoch [{epoch+1}/{num_epochs}], Step [{i+1}/{n_total_steps}], Loss: {loss.item():.4f}')
            ############## TENSORBOARD ########################
            writer.add_scalar('training loss', running_loss / 100, epoch * n_total_steps + i)
            writer.add_scalar('accuracy', running_correct / 100, epoch * n_total_steps + i)
            running_correct = 0
            running_loss = 0.0
            ###################################################

# Test the model
# In test phase, we don't need to compute gradients (for memory efficiency)
class_labels = []
class_preds = []
with torch.no_grad():
    n_correct = 0
    n_samples = 0
    for images, labels in test_loader:
        images = images.reshape(-1, 28*28).to(device)
        labels = labels.to(device)
        outputs = model(images)
        # max returns (value ,index)
        values, predicted = torch.max(outputs.data, 1)
        n_samples += labels.size(0)
        n_correct += (predicted == labels).sum().item()

        class_probs_batch = [F.softmax(output, dim=0) for output in outputs]

        class_preds.append(class_probs_batch)
        class_labels.append(predicted)

    # 10000, 10, and 10000, 1
    # stack concatenates tensors along a new dimension
    # cat concatenates tensors in the given dimension
    class_preds = torch.cat([torch.stack(batch) for batch in class_preds])
    class_labels = torch.cat(class_labels)

    acc = 100.0 * n_correct / n_samples
    print(f'Accuracy of the network on the 10000 test images: {acc} %')

    ############## TENSORBOARD ########################
    classes = range(10)
    for i in classes:
        labels_i = class_labels == i
        preds_i = class_preds[:, i]
        writer.add_pr_curve(str(i), labels_i, preds_i, global_step=0)
        writer.close()
    ###################################################

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