Flux.jl

Relax! Flux is the ML library that doesn't make you tensor http://fluxml.ai/

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Why Julia?

Better performance

  • JIT compiler
  • faster pre- & post- processing

Better syntax

  • multiple dispatch
  • metaprogramming

Write elegant code with high performance

WARNING

Situation of v0.7

  • Julia v0.7 in rc
  • packages need to be update
  • mess in document

Julia v1.0 Just Release!!

Other Frameworks

Dynamic

  • Pytorch
  • Tensorflow-eager
  • Mxnet

Static

  • Theano
  • Tensorflow
  • Caffe
  • Mxnet

Static v.s. Dynamic

Automatic Differentiation

(AD)

Static

create computation graph beforehand

 

need to be specific, e.g. shape, graph ...

Dynamic

create computation as the data pass forward

 

everything could be dynamic

Dynamic

Why use Flux?

Advantages

  • highly customizable
  • make use of julialang's advantages
  • dynamic model
  • write model at ease
  • FUN!

Take a look!

Flux in one block

using Flux
using Flux: throttle, @epochs

x = rand(784)
y = rand(10)
data = Iterators.repeated((x, y), 3)

m = Chain(
         Dense(784, 32, σ),
         Dense(32, 10), softmax)

loss(x, y) = Flux.mse(m(x), y)
opt = ADAM(params(m))
evalcb = () -> @show(loss(x, y))

@epochs 3 Flux.train!(loss, data, opt, cb = throttle(evalcb, 10))

Flux in one block(dynamic)

using Flux

tree() = rand() < 0.5 ? rand(10) : (tree(), tree()) 
shrink = Dense(20, 10)
combine(a, b) = shrink([a; b])

model(x) = x
model(x::Tuple) = combine(model(x[1]), model(x[2]))

model(tree()) # Sample output

Flux on browser

http://fluxml.ai/experiments/

From basic

(the internal)

Flux.Tracker

  • The core module for computing AD
  • reverse-mode AD

take derivative

using Flux.Tracker

Tracker.gradient((a, b) -> a*b, 2, 3) # (3.0 (tracked), 2.0 (tracked))

#= equivalent =#

using Flux.Tracker: forward

y, back = forward((a, b) -> a*b, 2, 3) # (6.0 (tracked), Flux.Tracker.#9)
back(1) # (3.0 (tracked), 2.0 (tracked))

take 2-order derivative 

using Flux.Tracker

f(x) = 3x^2 + 2x + 1

# df/dx = 6x + 2
f′(x) = Tracker.gradient(f, x)[1]

f′(2) # 14.0 (tracked)

# d²f/dx² = 6
f′′(x) = Tracker.gradient(f′, x)[1]

f′′(2) # 6.0 (tracked)

take derivative

(in place)

using Flux.Tracker: forward

y, back = forward((a, b) -> a*b, 2, 3) # (6.0 (tracked), Flux.Tracker.#9)
back(1) # (3.0 (tracked), 2.0 (tracked))


a, b = param(2), param(3)
c = a*b # 6.0 (tracked)

Tracker.back!(c)

Tracker.grad(a), Tracker.grad(b) # (3.0, 2.0)

take derivative of matrix

W = param([1 2; 3 4])
x = param([5, 6])

y = W*x
#Tracked 2-element Array{Float64,1}:
# 17.0
# 39.0

c = sum(y)
Tracker.back!(c)

Tracker.grad(W), Tracker.grad(x) # ([5.0 6.0; 5.0 6.0], [4.0, 6.0])

Customize gradient

using Flux
using Flux: data
using Flux.Tracker
using Flux.Tracker: TrackedReal, track, @grad, TrackedMatrix

foo(a, b) = a * b .+ 10

foo(a::TrackedMatrix, b::TrackedMatrix) = Tracker.track(foo, a, b)

@grad function foo(a, b)
    f = foo(data(a),data(b))
    x = similar(data(a))
    y = similar(data(b))
    for i ∈ 1:length(x)
        x[i] = i
    end
    for i ∈ 1:length(y)
        y[i] = i^2
    end
    return f, Δ -> (x, y)
end

Customize gradient

a = param([1 2; 4 5])
b = param([5 6 2; 7 8 1])
c = foo(a, b)

Flux.Tracker.back!(sum(c))

Tracker.grad(a)
#2×2 Array{Float64,2}:
# 1.0  3.0
# 2.0  4.0

Tracker.grad(b)
#2×3 Array{Float64,2}:
# 1.0   9.0  25.0
# 4.0  16.0  36.0

let's build a model!

Outline

  • prepare data
  • model construction
  • loss function & optimizer
  • training!

Prepare Data

  • batch should be at second Dimension
  • utils.jl
  • Flux.Data
  • FluxML/model-zoo

data example

using Flux
using Flux: chunk, batch

xs = collect(Iterators.repeated(rand(10), 1000))
ck = chunk(xs, 50)
data = batch.(ck)

Build a Model

  • 1. `Chain` multiple Layers
  • 2. write a custom function/layer

model example(1)

using Flux
using Flux: @treelike, glorot_uniform

struct Nalu{S}
    W::S
    M::S
    G::S
end

function Nalu(in::Integer, out::Integer;
              initW = glorot_uniform)
    return Nalu(param(initW(out, in)), param(initW(out, in)),param(initW(out, in)))
end

@treelike Nalu

function (n::Nalu)(x)
    W = @. tanh(n.W) * σ(n.M)
    a = W * x
    g = σ.(n.G * x)
    m = ℯ .^ (W * log.(abs.(x) + 1e-7))
    y = @. g * a + (1 - g) * m
    return y
end

model example(2)

N = 300

embedding = param(randn(N, length(alphabet)))

W = Dense(2N, N, tanh)
combine(a, b) = W([a; b])

sentiment = Chain(Dense(N, 5), softmax)

function forward(tree)
  if isleaf(tree)
    token, sent = tree.value
    phrase = embedding * token
    phrase, crossentropy(sentiment(phrase), sent)
  else
    _, sent = tree.value
    c1, l1 = forward(tree[1])
    c2, l2 = forward(tree[2])
    phrase = combine(c1, c2)
    phrase, l1 + l2 + crossentropy(sentiment(phrase), sent)
  end
end

loss(tree) = forward(tree)[2]

Optimizer

  • Pass all params to Optimizers
  • `params()` collect all param in layers

Training!

function train!(loss, data, opt; cb = () -> ())
  cb = runall(cb)
  opt = runall(opt)
  @progress for d in data
    l = loss(d...)
    @interrupts back!(l)
    opt()
    cb() == :stop && break
  end
end

Save model

saveing&loading

julia> using Flux

julia> using BSON: @save

julia> using BSON: @load

#save
julia> model = Chain(Dense(10,5,relu),Dense(5,2),softmax)
Chain(Dense(10, 5, NNlib.relu), Dense(5, 2), NNlib.softmax)

julia> @save "mymodel.bson" model

#load
julia> @load "mymodel.bson" model

julia> model
Chain(Dense(10, 5, NNlib.relu), Dense(5, 2), NNlib.softmax)

ONNX support!

loading ONNX model

# Import the required packages.
julia> using Flux, ONNX

# If you are in some other directory, specify the entire path.
# This creates two files: model.jl and weights.bson.
julia> ONNX.load_model("model.onnx")

# Read the weights from the binary serialized file.
julia> weights = ONNX.load_weights("weights.bson")

# Loads the model from the model.jl file.
julia> model = include("model.jl")

Conclusion

Flux!

  • writing elegant code on top of Julia
  • dynamic model make you feel at ease
  • easy&highly customizable

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