Package: theanets
THEANETSThetheanetspackage is a deep learning and neural network toolkit. It is
written in Python to interoperate with excellent tools likenumpyandscikit-learn, and it usesTheanoto accelerate computations when possible
using your GPU. The package aims to provide:a simple API for building and training common types of neural network models;thorough documentation;easy-to-read code;and, under the hood, a fully expressive graph computation framework.The package strives to “make the easy things easy and the difficult things
possible.” Please try it out, and let us know what you think!InstallationInstall the latest published code using pip:pip install theanetsOr download the current source and run it from there:git clone http://github.com/lmjohns3/theanets
cd theanets
python setup.py developNote that the contents of this README are linked to the version oftheanetsthat you are using. If you’re looking at theREADME on GitHub, you’ll need
the current GitHub code; if you’re looking at theREADME for a pypi release,
you’ll need the code associated with that release.Quick Start: ClassificationSuppose you want to create a classifier and train it on some 100-dimensional
data points that you’ve classified into 10 categories. No problem! With just a
few lines you can (a) provide some data, (b) build and (c) train a model,
and (d) evaluate the model:importclimateimporttheanetsfromsklearn.datasetsimportmake_classificationfromsklearn.metricsimportconfusion_matrixclimate.enable_default_logging()# Create a classification dataset.X,y=make_classification(n_samples=3000,n_features=100,n_classes=10,n_informative=10)X=X.astype('f')y=y.astype('i')cut=int(len(X)*0.8)# training / validation splittrain=X[:cut],y[:cut]valid=X[cut:],y[cut:]# Build a classifier model with 100 inputs and 10 outputs.net=theanets.Classifier(layers=[100,10])# Train the model using SGD with momentum.net.train(train,valid,algo='sgd',learning_rate=1e-4,momentum=0.9)# Show confusion matrices on the training/validation splits.forlabel,(X,y)in(('training:',train),('validation:',valid)):print(label)print(confusion_matrix(y,net.predict(X)))LayersThe model above is quite simplistic! Make it a bit more sophisticated by adding
a hidden layer:net=theanets.Classifier([100,1000,10])In fact, you can just as easily create 3 (or any number of) hidden layers:net=theanets.Classifier([100,1000,1000,1000,10])By default, hidden layers use the relu transfer function. By passing a tuple
instead of just an integer, you can change some of these layers to use differentactivations:maxout=(1000,'maxout:4')# maxout with 4 pieces.net=theanets.Classifier([100,1000,maxout,(1000,'tanh'),10])By passing a dictionary instead, you can specify even more attributes of eachlayer, like how its parameters are initialized:# Sparsely-initialized layer with large nonzero weights.foo=dict(name='foo',size=1000,std=1,sparsity=0.9)net=theanets.Classifier([100,foo,(1000,'maxout:4'),(1000,'tanh'),10])Specifying layers is the heart of building models intheanets. Read more
about this inSpecifying Layers.RegularizationAdding regularizers is easy, too! Just pass them to the training method. For
instance, you can train up a sparse classification model with weight decay:# Penalize hidden-unit activity (L1 norm) and weights (L2 norm).net.train(train,valid,hidden_l1=0.001,weight_l2=0.001)Intheanetsdropout is treated as a regularizer and can be set on many
layers at once:net.train(train,valid,hidden_dropout=0.5)or just on a specific layer:net.train(train,valid,dropout={'foo:out':0.5})Similarly, you can add Gaussian noise to any of the layers (here, just to the
input layer):net.train(train,valid,input_noise=0.3)Optimization AlgorithmsYou can optimize your model using any of the algorithms provided bydownhill(SGD, NAG, RMSProp, ADADELTA, etc.), or additionally using a couple ofpretraining methodsspecific to neural networks.You can also make as many successive calls to train() as you like. Each call can
include different training algorithms:net.train(train,valid,algo='rmsprop')net.train(train,valid,algo='nag')different learning hyperparameters:net.train(train,valid,algo='rmsprop',learning_rate=0.1)net.train(train,valid,algo='rmsprop',learning_rate=0.01)and different regularization hyperparameters:net.train(train,valid,input_noise=0.7)net.train(train,valid,input_noise=0.3)Training models is a bit more art than science, buttheanetstries to make
it easy to evaluate different training approaches. Read more about this inTraining a Model.Quick Start: Recurrent ModelsRecurrent neural networks are becoming quite important for many sequence-based
tasks in machine learning; one popular toy example for recurrent models is to
generate text that’s similar to some body of training text.In these models, a recurrent classifier is set up to predict the identity of the
next character in a sequence of text, given all of the preceding characters. The
inputs to the model are the one-hot encodings of a sequence of characters from
the text, and the corresponding outputs are the class labels of the subsequent
character. Thetheanetscode has aTexthelper class that provides easy
encoding and decoding of text to and from integer classes; using the helper
makes the top-level code look like:importnumpyasnp,re,theanetschars=re.sub(r'\s+',' ',open('corpus.txt').read().lower())txt=theanets.recurrent.Text(chars,min_count=10)A=1+len(txt.alpha)# of letter classes# create a model to train: input -> gru -> relu -> softmax.net=theanets.recurrent.Classifier([A,(100,'gru'),(1000,'relu'),A])# train the model iteratively; draw a sample after every epoch.seed=txt.encode(txt.text[300017:300050])fortm,_innet.itertrain(txt.classifier_batches(100,32),momentum=0.9):print('{}|{}({:.1f}%)'.format(txt.decode(seed),txt.decode(net.predict_sequence(seed,40)),100*tm['acc']))This example uses several features oftheanetsthat make modeling neural
networks fun and interesting. The model uses a layer ofGated Recurrent Unitsto capture the temporal dependencies in the data. It alsouses a callableto
provide data to the model, and takes advantage ofiterative trainingto
sample an output from the model after each training epoch.To run this example, download a text you’d like to model (e.g., Herman
Melville’sMoby Dick) and save it incorpus.txt:curl http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2701/pg2701.txt > corpus.txtThen when you run the script, the output might look something like this
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used for light, but only as an oi|l is, the captain all this mildly bounde (54.9%)Here, the seed text is shown left of the pipe character, and the randomly
sampled sequence follows. In parantheses are the per-character accuracy values
on the training set while training the model. The pattern of learning proceeds
from almost-random character generation, to producing groups of letters
separated by spaces, to generating words that seem like they might belong inMoby Dick, things like “captain,” “ahab, too,” and “constantly used the coil.”Much amusement can be derived from a temporal model extending itself forward in
this way. After all, how else would we ever think of “Pequodeers,”
“Starbuckably,” or “Ginqueg”?!More InformationSource:https://github.com/lmjohns3/theanetsDocumentation:http://theanets.readthedocs.orgMailing list:https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/theanets