PyTorch ValueError: too many dimensions 'str'

alameer: <p>I am trying to use torchvision.transforms to apply transformtation the training data, but getting the following traceback error: Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
File “train4.py”, line 113, in <br>
targets = torch.tensor([metadata[‘count’][os.path.split(path)[-1]] for path in paths]) # B<br>
ValueError: too many dimensions ‘str’</p>
<pre><code class="lang-auto">import argparse
import datetime
import glob
import os
import random
import shutil
import time
from os.path import join

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
from torchvision.transforms import ToTensor, RandomChoice, Compose, functional
from tqdm import tqdm

from convnet0 import Convnet
from dataset2 import CellsDataset
import pdb

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser('Predicting hits from pixels')
parser.add_argument('name',type=str,help='Name of experiment')
parser.add_argument('data_dir',type=str,help='Path to data directory containing images and gt.csv')
parser.add_argument('--num_steps',type=int,default=20000,help='Number of training iterations')
parser.add_argument('--batchsize',type=int,default=16,help='Size of batch')
parser.add_argument('--weight_decay',type=float,default=0.0,help='Weight decay coefficient (something like 10^-5)')
parser.add_argument('--lr',type=float,default=0.0001,help='Learning rate')
parser.add_argument('--resume',action='store_true',help='Resume experiments from checkpoint directory')
parser.add_argument('--seed',type=int,default=1337,help='RNG seed')
args = parser.parse_args()

device = torch.device('cuda:0' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')

torch.manual_seed(args.seed)
torch.cuda.manual_seed(args.seed)
np.random.seed(args.seed)
random.seed(args.seed)

# create output directory tree:
if os.path.isdir(args.name) and not args.resume:
    shutil.rmtree(args.name)
logs_path = join(args.name,'logs')
checkpoints_path = join(args.name,'checkpoints')
checkpoint_path = join(checkpoints_path,'checkpoint.pth')
if not os.path.isdir(args.name):
    os.mkdir(args.name)
    os.mkdir(logs_path)
    os.mkdir(checkpoints_path)

# record arguments for future reference:
with open(join(args.name,'arguments.txt'),'w') as fout:
    fout.write(str(args))

# create datasets:
toTensor = ToTensor()
dataset_train = CellsDataset(args.data_dir,transform=ToTensor(),return_filenames=True)

# duplicate the dataset and transform the duplicates
transforms = Compose([RandomChoice([functional.hflip,functional.vflip])])
dataset_train.duplicate_and_transform(transforms)
print(dataset_train.Size())

# load metadata:
metadata = pd.read_csv(join(args.data_dir,'gt.csv'))
metadata.set_index('filename', inplace=True)

# assign to train or test
random.shuffle(dataset_train.files)
split_point = int(len(dataset_train) * 0.9) # 90/10 train/val split
dataset_test = CellsDataset(args.data_dir,transform=ToTensor(),return_filenames=True)

dataset_test.files = dataset_train.files[split_point:]
dataset_train.files = dataset_train.files[:split_point]

loader_train = DataLoader(dataset_train,batch_size=args.batchsize,shuffle=True,num_workers=4,pin_memory=True)
loader_test =  DataLoader(dataset_test, batch_size=args.batchsize,shuffle=True,num_workers=4,pin_memory=True)


# create model:
model = Convnet()
model.to(device)

# create optimizer:
optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters(),lr=args.lr,weight_decay=args.weight_decay)

if args.resume:
    try:
        checkpoint = torch.load(checkpoint_path)
        print('Resuming from checkpoint...')
        model.load_state_dict(checkpoint['state_dict'])
        globalStep = checkpoint['globalStep']
        optimizer.load_state_dict(checkpoint['optimizer_state_dict'])
        dataset_train.files = checkpoint['train_paths']
        dataset_test.files = checkpoint['test_paths']
    except FileNotFoundError:
        globalStep = 0

# create logger:
timestamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M")
writer = SummaryWriter()

# main training loop
global_step = 0
best_test_error = 10000
for epoch in range(15):
    print("Epoch %d" % epoch)
    model.train()
    for images, paths in tqdm(loader_train):
        images = images.to(device)
        pdb.set_trace()
        targets = torch.tensor([metadata['count'][os.path.split(path)[-1]] for path in paths]) # B
        targets = targets.float().to(device)

        # forward pass:
        output = model(images) # B x 1 x 9 x 9 (analogous to a heatmap)
        preds = output.sum(dim=[1,2,3]) # predicted cell counts (vector of length B)
        
        # backward pass:
        loss = torch.mean((preds - targets)**2)
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()

        # logging:
        count_error = torch.abs(preds - targets).mean()
        writer.add_scalar('train_loss', loss.item(), global_step=global_step)
        writer.add_scalar('train_count_error', count_error.item(), global_step=global_step)

        print("Step %d, loss=%f, count error=%f" % (global_step,loss.item(),count_error.item()))

        global_step += 1
    
    mean_test_error = 0
    model.eval()
    for images, paths in tqdm(loader_test):
        images = images.to(device)
        targets = torch.tensor([metadata['count'][os.path.split(path)[-1]] for path in paths]) # B
        targets = targets.float().to(device)

        # forward pass:
        output = model(images) # B x 1 x 9 x 9 (analogous to a heatmap)
        preds = output.sum(dim=[1,2,3]) # predicted cell counts (vector of length B)

        # logging:
        loss = torch.mean((preds - targets)**2)
        count_error = torch.abs(preds - targets).mean()
        mean_test_error += count_error
        writer.add_scalar('test_loss', loss.item(), global_step=global_step)
        writer.add_scalar('test_count_error', count_error.item(), global_step=global_step)
        
        global_step += 1
    
    mean_test_error = mean_test_error / len(loader_test)
    print("Test count error: %f" % mean_test_error)
    if mean_test_error &lt; best_test_error:
        best_test_error = mean_test_error
        torch.save({'state_dict':model.state_dict(),
                    'optimizer_state_dict':optimizer.state_dict(),
                    'globalStep':global_step,
                    'train_paths':dataset_train.files,
                    'test_paths':dataset_test.files},checkpoint_path)

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ptrblck: <p>Your error might be similar to <a href="https://github.com/ThilinaRajapakse/simpletransformers/issues/229#issuecomment-594014744">this issue</a>, which points towards a wrong indexing of the <code>pd.DataFrame</code>. Could you check, how <code>metadata</code> can be indexed?</p>