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Reduce learning rate on plateau.

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Daniel 2020-02-11 16:52:56 +01:00 committed by Reuben Morais
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@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ def calculate_mean_edit_distance_and_loss(iterator, dropout, reuse):
# (www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/momentum.pdf) was used,
# we will use the Adam method for optimization (http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6980),
# because, generally, it requires less fine-tuning.
def create_optimizer():
optimizer = tfv1.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate=FLAGS.learning_rate,
def create_optimizer(learning_rate_var):
optimizer = tfv1.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate=learning_rate_var,
beta1=FLAGS.beta1,
beta2=FLAGS.beta2,
epsilon=FLAGS.epsilon)
@ -452,7 +452,9 @@ def train():
}
# Building the graph
optimizer = create_optimizer()
learning_rate_var = tfv1.get_variable('learning_rate', initializer=FLAGS.learning_rate, trainable=False)
reduce_learning_rate_op = learning_rate_var.assign(tf.multiply(learning_rate_var, FLAGS.plateau_reduction))
optimizer = create_optimizer(learning_rate_var)
# Enable mixed precision training
if FLAGS.automatic_mixed_precision:
@ -571,6 +573,7 @@ def train():
train_start_time = datetime.utcnow()
best_dev_loss = float('inf')
dev_losses = []
epochs_without_improvement = 0
try:
for epoch in range(FLAGS.epochs):
# Training
@ -589,29 +592,39 @@ def train():
dev_loss += set_loss * steps
total_steps += steps
log_progress('Finished validating epoch %d on %s - loss: %f' % (epoch, csv, set_loss))
dev_loss = dev_loss / total_steps
dev_loss = dev_loss / total_steps
dev_losses.append(dev_loss)
# Count epochs without an improvement for early stopping and reduction of learning rate on a plateau
# the improvement has to be greater than FLAGS.es_min_delta
if dev_loss > best_dev_loss - FLAGS.es_min_delta:
epochs_without_improvement += 1
else:
epochs_without_improvement = 0
# Save new best model
if dev_loss < best_dev_loss:
best_dev_loss = dev_loss
save_path = best_dev_saver.save(session, best_dev_path, global_step=global_step, latest_filename='best_dev_checkpoint')
log_info("Saved new best validating model with loss %f to: %s" % (best_dev_loss, save_path))
# Early stopping
if FLAGS.early_stop and len(dev_losses) >= FLAGS.es_steps:
mean_loss = np.mean(dev_losses[-FLAGS.es_steps:-1])
std_loss = np.std(dev_losses[-FLAGS.es_steps:-1])
dev_losses = dev_losses[-FLAGS.es_steps:]
log_debug('Checking for early stopping (last %d steps) validation loss: '
'%f, with standard deviation: %f and mean: %f' %
(FLAGS.es_steps, dev_losses[-1], std_loss, mean_loss))
if dev_losses[-1] > np.max(dev_losses[:-1]) or \
(abs(dev_losses[-1] - mean_loss) < FLAGS.es_mean_th and std_loss < FLAGS.es_std_th):
log_info('Early stop triggered as (for last %d steps) validation loss:'
' %f with standard deviation: %f and mean: %f' %
(FLAGS.es_steps, dev_losses[-1], std_loss, mean_loss))
if FLAGS.early_stop and epochs_without_improvement == FLAGS.es_epochs:
log_info('Early stop triggered as the loss did not improve the last {} epochs'.format(
epochs_without_improvement))
break
# Reduce learning rate on plateau
if (FLAGS.reduce_lr_on_plateau and
epochs_without_improvement % FLAGS.plateau_epochs == 0 and epochs_without_improvement > 0):
# If the learning rate was reduced and there is still no improvement
# wait FLAGS.plateau_epochs before the learning rate is reduced again
session.run(reduce_learning_rate_op)
current_learning_rate = learning_rate_var.eval()
log_info('Encountered a plateau, reducing learning rate to {}'.format(
current_learning_rate))
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass
log_info('FINISHED optimization in {}'.format(datetime.utcnow() - train_start_time))

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@ -139,10 +139,15 @@ def create_flags():
# Early Stopping
f.DEFINE_boolean('early_stop', True, 'enable early stopping mechanism over validation dataset. If validation is not being run, early stopping is disabled.')
f.DEFINE_integer('es_steps', 4, 'number of validations to consider for early stopping. Loss is not stored in the checkpoint so when checkpoint is revived it starts the loss calculation from start at that point')
f.DEFINE_float('es_mean_th', 0.5, 'mean threshold for loss to determine the condition if early stopping is required')
f.DEFINE_float('es_std_th', 0.5, 'standard deviation threshold for loss to determine the condition if early stopping is required')
f.DEFINE_boolean('early_stop', True, 'Enable early stopping mechanism over validation dataset. If validation is not being run, early stopping is disabled.')
f.DEFINE_integer('es_epochs', 25, 'Number of epochs with no improvement after which training will be stopped. Loss is not stored in the checkpoint so when checkpoint is revived it starts the loss calculation from start at that point')
f.DEFINE_float('es_min_delta', 0.05, 'Minimum change in loss to qualify as an improvement. This value will also be used in Reduce learning rate on plateau')
# Reduce learning rate on plateau
f.DEFINE_boolean('reduce_lr_on_plateau', True, 'Enable reducing the learning rate if a plateau is reached. This is the case if the validation loss did not improve for some epochs.')
f.DEFINE_integer('plateau_epochs', 10, 'Number of epochs to consider for RLROP. Has to be smaller than es_epochs from early stopping')
f.DEFINE_float('plateau_reduction', 0.1, 'Multiplicative factor to apply to the current learning rate if a plateau has occurred.')
# Decoder