[mlpack-git] master: It isn't guaranteed that the recurrent network will converge (using a specified number of iterations), so we test if the network is able to solve the task in one of 5 trails using different starting weights. (6147ed0)

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Wed Jul 6 18:17:57 EDT 2016


Repository : https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack
On branch  : master
Link       : https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/compare/e7b9b042d1d6e2d9895d5fa141e9c135b2d2ea57...6147ed01bab6eadcd6a5e796e259a6afacae4662

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commit 6147ed01bab6eadcd6a5e796e259a6afacae4662
Author: Marcus Edel <marcus.edel at fu-berlin.de>
Date:   Thu Jul 7 00:17:57 2016 +0200

    It isn't guaranteed that the recurrent network will converge (using a specified number of iterations), so we test if the network is able to solve the task in one of 5 trails using different starting weights.


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6147ed01bab6eadcd6a5e796e259a6afacae4662
 src/mlpack/tests/recurrent_network_test.cpp | 107 ++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/mlpack/tests/recurrent_network_test.cpp b/src/mlpack/tests/recurrent_network_test.cpp
index 0ec1bcf..40d162c 100644
--- a/src/mlpack/tests/recurrent_network_test.cpp
+++ b/src/mlpack/tests/recurrent_network_test.cpp
@@ -68,58 +68,73 @@ void GenerateNoisySines(arma::mat& data,
  */
 BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(SequenceClassificationTest)
 {
-  // Generate 12 (2 * 6) noisy sines. A single sine contains 10 points/features.
-  arma::mat input, labels;
-  GenerateNoisySines(input, labels, 10, 6);
+  // It isn't guaranteed that the recurrent network will converge in the
+  // specified number of iterations using random weights. If this works 1 of 5
+  // times, I'm fine with that. All I want to know is that the network is able
+  // to escape from local minima and to solve the task.
+  size_t successes = 0;
 
-  /*
-   * Construct a network with 1 input unit, 4 hidden units and 2 output units.
-   * The hidden layer is connected to itself. The network structure looks like:
-   *
-   *  Input         Hidden        Output
-   * Layer(1)      Layer(4)      Layer(2)
-   * +-----+       +-----+       +-----+
-   * |     |       |     |       |     |
-   * |     +------>|     +------>|     |
-   * |     |    ..>|     |       |     |
-   * +-----+    .  +--+--+       +-----+
-   *            .     .
-   *            .     .
-   *            .......
-   */
-  LinearLayer<> linearLayer0(1, 4);
-  RecurrentLayer<> recurrentLayer0(4);
-  BaseLayer<LogisticFunction> inputBaseLayer;
-
-  LinearLayer<> hiddenLayer(4, 2);
-  BaseLayer<LogisticFunction> hiddenBaseLayer;
-
-  BinaryClassificationLayer classOutputLayer;
-
-  auto modules = std::tie(linearLayer0, recurrentLayer0, inputBaseLayer,
-                          hiddenLayer, hiddenBaseLayer);
-
-  RNN<decltype(modules), BinaryClassificationLayer, RandomInitialization,
-      MeanSquaredErrorFunction> net(modules, classOutputLayer);
-
-  SGD<decltype(net)> opt(net, 0.5, 500 * input.n_cols, -100);
-
-  net.Train(input, labels, opt);
-
-  arma::mat prediction;
-  net.Predict(input, prediction);
-
-  size_t error = 0;
-  for (size_t i = 0; i < labels.n_cols; i++)
+  for (size_t trial = 0; trial < 5; ++trial)
   {
-    if (arma::sum(arma::sum(arma::abs(prediction.col(i) - labels.col(i)))) == 0)
+    // Generate 12 (2 * 6) noisy sines. A single sine contains 10 points/features.
+    arma::mat input, labels;
+    GenerateNoisySines(input, labels, 10, 6);
+
+    /*
+     * Construct a network with 1 input unit, 4 hidden units and 2 output units.
+     * The hidden layer is connected to itself. The network structure looks like:
+     *
+     *  Input         Hidden        Output
+     * Layer(1)      Layer(4)      Layer(2)
+     * +-----+       +-----+       +-----+
+     * |     |       |     |       |     |
+     * |     +------>|     +------>|     |
+     * |     |    ..>|     |       |     |
+     * +-----+    .  +--+--+       +-----+
+     *            .     .
+     *            .     .
+     *            .......
+     */
+    LinearLayer<> linearLayer0(1, 4);
+    RecurrentLayer<> recurrentLayer0(4);
+    BaseLayer<LogisticFunction> inputBaseLayer;
+
+    LinearLayer<> hiddenLayer(4, 2);
+    BaseLayer<LogisticFunction> hiddenBaseLayer;
+
+    BinaryClassificationLayer classOutputLayer;
+
+    auto modules = std::tie(linearLayer0, recurrentLayer0, inputBaseLayer,
+                            hiddenLayer, hiddenBaseLayer);
+
+    RNN<decltype(modules), BinaryClassificationLayer, RandomInitialization,
+        MeanSquaredErrorFunction> net(modules, classOutputLayer);
+
+    SGD<decltype(net)> opt(net, 0.5, 500 * input.n_cols, -100);
+
+    net.Train(input, labels, opt);
+
+    arma::mat prediction;
+    net.Predict(input, prediction);
+
+    size_t error = 0;
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < labels.n_cols; i++)
+    {
+      if (arma::sum(arma::sum(arma::abs(prediction.col(i) - labels.col(i)))) == 0)
+      {
+        error++;
+      }
+    }
+
+    double classificationError = 1 - double(error) / labels.n_cols;
+    if (classificationError <= 0.2)
     {
-      error++;
+      ++successes;
+      break;
     }
   }
 
-  double classificationError = 1 - double(error) / labels.n_cols;
-  BOOST_REQUIRE_LE(classificationError, 0.2);
+  BOOST_REQUIRE_GE(successes, 1);
 }
 
 /**




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