Expected object of scalar type Float but got scalar type Long for argument #2 'target'

Bastulli: <p>I’m trying to build a network that takes in images and outputs a number between 0-1 or -1,1.  The problem I am having now is <strong>loss = criterion(output, target)</strong>  expects float but got double for ‘target’. Did I setup my network correctly to use mean squared error?  My label is just a number between -1, 1</p>
<pre><code class="lang-auto">import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F

# define the CNN architecture
class Net(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Net, self).__init__()
        # convolutional layer (sees 32x32x3 image tensor)
        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(3, 16, 3, padding=1)
        # convolutional layer (sees 16x16x16 tensor)
        self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(16, 32, 3, padding=1)
        self.pool = nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2)
        self.fc1 = nn.Linear(32 * 4 * 4, 256)
        self.fc2 = nn.Linear(256, 1)
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(0.25)

    def forward(self, x):
        x = self.pool(F.relu(self.conv1(x)))
        x = self.pool(F.relu(self.conv2(x)))
        # flatten image input
        x = x.view(-1, 32 * 4 * 4)
        x = self.dropout(x)
        x = F.relu(self.fc1(x))
        x = self.dropout(x)
        x = self.fc2(x)
        return x

# create a complete CNN
model = Net()
print(model)

# move tensors to GPU if CUDA is available
if train_on_gpu:
    model.cuda()
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<pre><code class="lang-auto">import torch.optim as optim
criterion = nn.MSELoss()
optimizer = optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=0.01)

# number of epochs to train the model
n_epochs = 30

valid_loss_min = np.Inf # track change in validation loss

for epoch in range(1, n_epochs+1):

    # keep track of training and validation loss
    train_loss = 0.0
    valid_loss = 0.0
    
    ###################
    # train the model #
    ###################
    model.train()
    for data, target in train_loader:
        # move tensors to GPU if CUDA is available
        if train_on_gpu:
            data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
        # clear the gradients of all optimized variables
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        # forward pass: compute predicted outputs by passing inputs to the model
        output = model(data)
        # calculate the batch loss
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        # backward pass: compute gradient of the loss with respect to model parameters
        loss.backward()
        # perform a single optimization step (parameter update)
        optimizer.step()
        # update training loss
        train_loss += loss.item()*data.size(0)
        
    ######################    
    # validate the model #
    ######################
    model.eval()
    for data, target in validation_loader:
        # move tensors to GPU if CUDA is available
        if train_on_gpu:
            data, target = data.cuda(), target.cuda()
        # forward pass: compute predicted outputs by passing inputs to the model
        output = model(data)
        # calculate the batch loss
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        # update average validation loss 
        valid_loss += loss.item()*data.size(0)
    
    # calculate average losses
    train_loss = train_loss/len(train_loader.dataset)
    valid_loss = valid_loss/len(valid_loader.dataset)
        
    # print training/validation statistics 
    print('Epoch: {} \tTraining Loss: {:.6f} \tValidation Loss: {:.6f}'.format(
        epoch, train_loss, valid_loss))
    
    # save model if validation loss has decreased
    if valid_loss &lt;= valid_loss_min:
        print('Validation loss decreased ({:.6f} --&gt; {:.6f}).  Saving model ...'.format(
        valid_loss_min,
        valid_loss))
        torch.save(model.state_dict(), 'model_cifar.pt')
        valid_loss_min = valid_loss
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Bastulli: <p>Ok, I added target.float() to cast the double to a torch float and that seemed to solve the problem</p>

Anish_Pandey: <p>Changing the dtype could solve this problem. for example: target.to(device, dtype= torch.float)</p>