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Deep Neural Network Step by Step

I will try to implement and execute a proper neural network and solve a problem using it. I will walk you through all my thought process after going through this blog post you will have the answers to the questions like

  • What is a neural network
  • What is a deep neural network
  • What is an activation function
  • Why|Where we use a Neural Network
  • How can we implement a neural network, what are hidden layer
  • How to use a non-linear model
  • What different types of activation functions are there
  • How to use application layer with a neural network
  • How to build a deep neural network with python from scratch.

Let’s start!

First and foremost let me brief you about the packages used

1. Intro to packages

The code cell is

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from dnn_utils_v2 import sigmoid, back_sigmoid, relu, back_relu;
import numpy as np;
import matplotlib.pyplot as plott;
import h5py;
from testCases_v3 import *;
%matplotlib inline

plott.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (6.0, 5.0); # we need to set a default size for our plots
plott.rcParams['image.interpolation'] = 'nearest';
plott.rcParams['image.cmap'] = 'gray';

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

np.random.seed(0);

Let me first explain the packages and lines of code above.

  • numpy - numpy being the main package for scientific computing with Python will play a major role for us.
  • matplotlib - matplotlib is a plotting library to plot graphs in Python.
  • dnn_utils - dnn_utils will provide us some necessary dnn functions for our blog.
  • testCases - testCases library will provide some test cases to verify whether our functions and programs are correct or not.
  • np.random.seed- np.random.seed(0) maintains the random operation execution similer. It will help us save and have similar values to random shuffle dataser.

Now, let us learn about how to code all different types of activation functions starting with “the sigmoid function”:

Please refer to the code cell below

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def sigmoid(Z):
"""
We will execute the sigmoid function in numpy

We will use Z -- numpy array of any shape as an argument which will return A an output of sigmoid(z) which will have the same shape as Z and temperarory_holder returns Z as well which is useful during backpropagation
"""

A = 1 / (1 + np.exp(-Z));
temperarory_holder = Z;

return A, temperarory_holder;

Our back_sigmoid function in code looks like:

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def back_sigmoid(dA, temperarory_holder):
"""
We will use this code cell to Implement the backward propagation for a solo SIGMOID unit.

Arguments used are:
dA which is a post-activation gradient of any given shape and a temperarory_holder 'Z' where we store for the computing backward propagation efficiently and the Return for the function is C_Gradient which is Gradient of the cost with respect to Z (temperarory_holder)
"""

Z = temperarory_holder;

s = 1 / (1 + np.exp(-Z));
C_Gradient = dA * s * (1 - s);

assert (C_Gradient.shape == Z.shape);

return C_Gradient;

the relu function:

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def relu(Z):
"""
We will use this code cell to Implement the RELU Function.

Arguments used are:
Z which is a denotion for output of the linear layer, of any given shape

and the function returns A which is a Post-activation parameter of the same shape as Z(temperarory_holder) which is a python dictionary containing "A" which is further stored for computing the backward pass efficiently
"""

A = np.maximum(0,Z);

assert(A.shape == Z.shape);

temperarory_holder = Z;
return A, temperarory_holder;

the back_relu function:

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def back_relu(dA, temperarory_holder):
"""
We will use this code cell to Implement the backward propogation of a RELU Function.

Arguments used are:
A post-activation gradient dA , which is of any shape
A temperarory_holder demoted by 'Z' where we store for computing backward propagation efficiently

The function returns:
C_Gradient which is Gradient of the cost with respect to Z
"""

Z = temperarory_holder;
C_Gradient = np.array(dA, copy = True); # we are only converting C_Gradient to a appropriate object.

# When z <= 0, you should set C_Gradient to 0 as well.
C_Gradient[Z <= 0] = 0;

assert (C_Gradient.shape == Z.shape);

return C_Gradient;

Signs used in the blog post:
Please find the notation used in the blog for easy interpretation

  • $[l]$ shows an attribute linked with the $l^{th}$ layer.
    • e.g.: $a^{[L]}$ is the $L^{th}$ layer activation and $W^{[L]}$ & $b^{[L]}$ are the $L^{th}$ layer parameters.
  • $(i)$ shows an attribute linked with the $i^{th}$ example.
    • e.g.: $x^{(i)}$ is the $i^{th}$ training example.
  • $i$ shows the $i^{th}$ entry of a vector.
    • Example: $a^{[l]}$ denotes the $i^{th}$ entry of the $l^{th}$ layer’s activation value).

2. Roadmap for this blog

In the process of building our neural network, we would be executing multiple “aid functions”. Each small aid function we will implement will have detailed instructions that will walk you through the necessary steps. Here is an outline of this blog, we will be:

  • Building an U-layer and a two-layer Neural network, Initialize the parameters for the type of networks

  • Executing the forward propagation module by

    • Finalising our layer’s linear forward propagation step which will result in Zl.
    • We give you the ACTIVATION function (relu/sigmoid).
    • Combine the previous two steps into a new [LINEAR->ACTIVATION] forward function.
    • Stack the [LINEAR->RELU] forward function L-1 time (for layers 1 through L-1) and add a [LINEAR->SIGMOID] at the end (for the final layer L). This gives you a new L_model_forward function.
  • Compute the loss.

  • Implement the backward propagation module (denoted in red in the figure below).

    • Complete the LINEAR part of a layer’s backward propagation step.
    • We give you the gradient of the ACTIVATE function (back_relu/back_sigmoid)
    • Combine the previous two steps into a new [LINEAR->ACTIVATION] backward function.
    • Stack [LINEAR->RELU] backward L-1 times and add [LINEAR->SIGMOID] backward in a new L_model_backward function
  • Finally update the parameters.

Note that for every forward function, there is a corresponding backward function. That is why at every step of your forward module you will be storing some values in a temperarory_holder. The temperarory_holderd values are useful for computing gradients. In the backpropagation module you will then use the temperarory_holder to calculate the gradients. This assignment will show you exactly how to carry out each of these steps.

3. Initialization

You will write two aid functions that will initialize the parameters for your model. The first function will be used to initialize parameters for a two layer model. The second one will generalize this initialization process to L layers.

3.1 2-layer Neural Network

Exercise: Create and initialize the parameters of the 2-layer neural network.

Instructions:

  • The model’s structure is: LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID.
  • Use random initialization for the weight matrices. Use np.random.randn(shape)*0.01 with the correct shape.
  • Use zero initialization for the biases. Use np.zeros(shape).
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# GRADED FUNCTION: initialize_parameters

def initialize_parameters(n_x, n_h, n_y):
"""
Argument:
n_x -- size of the input layer
n_h -- size of the hidden layer
n_y -- size of the output layer

Returns:
parameters -- python dictionary containing your parameters:
W1 -- weight matrix of shape (n_h, n_x)
b1 -- bias vector of shape (n_h, 1)
W2 -- weight matrix of shape (n_y, n_h)
b2 -- bias vector of shape (n_y, 1)
"""

np.random.seed(1);

### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 4 lines of code)
W1 = np.random.randn(n_h, n_x) * 0.01;
b1 = np.zeros((n_h, 1));
W2 = np.random.randn(n_y, n_h) * 0.01;
b2 = np.zeros((n_y, 1));
### END CODE HERE ###

assert(W1.shape == (n_h, n_x));
assert(b1.shape == (n_h, 1));
assert(W2.shape == (n_y, n_h));
assert(b2.shape == (n_y, 1));

parameters = {"W1": W1,
"b1": b1,
"W2": W2,
"b2": b2};

return parameters;
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parameters = initialize_parameters(3,2,1);
print("W1 = " + str(parameters["W1"]));
print("b1 = " + str(parameters["b1"]));
print("W2 = " + str(parameters["W2"]));
print("b2 = " + str(parameters["b2"]));
W1 = [[ 0.01624345 -0.00611756 -0.00528172]
 [-0.01072969  0.00865408 -0.02301539]]
b1 = [[0.]
 [0.]]
W2 = [[ 0.01744812 -0.00761207]]
b2 = [[0.]]

3.2 U-layer Neural Network

The initialization for a deeper U-layer neural network is more complicated because there are many more weight matrices and bias vectors. When completing the initialize_parameters_deep, you should make sure that your dimensions match between each layer. Recall that $n^{[l]}$ is the number of units in layer $l$. Thus for example if the size of our input $X$ is $(12288,209)$ (with $m=209$ examples) then:

| |Shape of W|Shape of b|Activation|Shape of Activation|
|————–|—————-|—————|———————–|
|Layer 1|(n[1],12288)|(n[1],1)|Z[1]=W[1]X+b[1]|(n[1],209)|
|Layer 2|(n[2],n[1]) |(n[2],1)|Z[2]=W[2]A[1]+b[2]|(n[2],209)|
|$\vdots$|$\vdots$|$\vdots$|$\vdots$|$\vdots$|
|Layer L-1|(n[L−1],n[L−2])|(n[L−1],1)|Z[L−1]=W[L−1]A[L−2]+b[L−1]|(n[L−1],209)|
|Layer L|(n[L],n[L−1])|(n[L],1)|Z[L]=W[L]A[L−1]+b[L]|(n[L],209)|
The initialization for a deeper U-layer neural network is more complicated because there are many more weight matrices and bias vectors. When completing the initialize_parameters_deep, you should make sure that your dimensions match between each layer. Recall that $n^{[l]}$ is the number of units in layer $l$. Thus for example if the size of our input $X$ is $(12288, 209)$ (with $m=209$ examples) then:

<tr>
    <td>  </td> 
    <td> **Shape of W** </td> 
    <td> **Shape of b**  </td> 
    <td> **Activation** </td>
    <td> **Shape of Activation** </td> 
<tr>

<tr>
    <td> **Layer 1** </td> 
    <td> $(n^{[1]},12288)$ </td> 
    <td> $(n^{[1]},1)$ </td> 
    <td> $Z^{[1]} = W^{[1]}  X + b^{[1]} $ </td> 
    
    <td> $(n^{[1]},209)$ </td> 
<tr>

<tr>
    <td> **Layer 2** </td> 
    <td> $(n^{[2]}, n^{[1]})$  </td> 
    <td> $(n^{[2]},1)$ </td> 
    <td>$Z^{[2]} = W^{[2]} A^{[1]} + b^{[2]}$ </td> 
    <td> $(n^{[2]}, 209)$ </td> 
<tr>

   <tr>
    <td> $\vdots$ </td> 
    <td> $\vdots$  </td> 
    <td> $\vdots$  </td> 
    <td> $\vdots$</td> 
    <td> $\vdots$  </td> 
<tr>
**Layer L-1** $(n^{[L-1]}, n^{[L-2]})$ $(n^{[L-1]}, 1)$ $Z^{[L-1]} = W^{[L-1]} A^{[L-2]} + b^{[L-1]}$ $(n^{[L-1]}, 209)$
**Layer L** $(n^{[L]}, n^{[L-1]})$ $(n^{[L]}, 1)$ $Z^{[L]} = W^{[L]} A^{[L-1]} + b^{[L]}$ $(n^{[L]}, 209)$

Then $WX+b$ will be:

$$WX + b = \begin{bmatrix} (ja + kd + lg) + s & (jb + ke + lh) + s & (jc + kf + li)+ s\\ (ma + nd + og) + t & (mb + ne + oh) + t & (mc + nf + oi) + t\\ (pa + qd + rg) + u & (pb + qe + rh) + u & (pc + qf + ri)+ u \end{bmatrix}\tag{2}$$

Exercise: Implement initialization for an U-layer Neural Network.

Instructions:

  • The model’s structure is [LINEAR -> RELU] × (L-1) -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID. I.e., it has L−1 layers using a ReLU activation function followed by an output layer with a sigmoid activation function.

  • Use random initialization for the weight matrices. Use np.random.rand(shape) * 0.01.

  • Use zeros initialization for the biases. Use np.zeros(shape).

  • We will store $n^{[l]}$, the number of units in different layers, in a variable layer_dims. For example, the layer_dims for the “Planar Data classification model” from last week would have been [2,4,1]: There were two inputs, one hidden layer with 4 hidden units, and an output layer with 1 output unit. Thus means W1’s shape was (4,2), b1 was (4,1), W2 was (1,4) and b2 was (1,1). Now you will generalize this to L layers!

  • Here is the implementation for L=1 (one layer neural network). It should inspire you to implement the general case (U-layer neural network).

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    if L == 1:
    parameters["W" + str(L)] = np.random.randn(layer_dims[1], layer_dims[0]) * 0.01;
    parameters["b" + str(L)] = np.zeros((layer_dims[1], 1));
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# GRADED FUNCTION: initialize_parameters_deep

def initialize_parameters_deep(layer_dims):
"""
Arguments:
layer_dims -- python array (list) containing the dimensions of each layer in our network

Returns:
parameters -- python dictionary containing your parameters "W1", "b1", ..., "WL", "bL":
Wl -- weight matrix of shape (layer_dims[l], layer_dims[l-1])
bl -- bias vector of shape (layer_dims[l], 1)
"""

np.random.seed(3);
parameters = {};
L = len(layer_dims); # number of layers in the network

for l in range(1, L):
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
parameters["W" + str(l)] = np.random.randn(layer_dims[l], layer_dims[l - 1]) * 0.01;
parameters["b" + str(l)] = np.zeros((layer_dims[l], 1));
### END CODE HERE ###

assert(parameters['W' + str(l)].shape == (layer_dims[l], layer_dims[l-1]));
assert(parameters['b' + str(l)].shape == (layer_dims[l], 1));


return parameters;
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print("W1 = " + str(parameters["W1"]));
print("b1 = " + str(parameters["b1"]));
print("W2 = " + str(parameters["W2"]));
print("b2 = " + str(parameters["b2"]));
W1 = [[ 0.01788628  0.0043651   0.00096497 -0.01863493 -0.00277388]
 [-0.00354759 -0.00082741 -0.00627001 -0.00043818 -0.00477218]
 [-0.01313865  0.00884622  0.00881318  0.01709573  0.00050034]
 [-0.00404677 -0.0054536  -0.01546477  0.00982367 -0.01101068]]
b1 = [[0.]
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W2 = [[-0.01185047 -0.0020565   0.01486148  0.00236716]
 [-0.01023785 -0.00712993  0.00625245 -0.00160513]
 [-0.00768836 -0.00230031  0.00745056  0.01976111]]
b2 = [[0.]
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4 Forward propagation module

4.1 Linear Forward

Now that you have initialized your parameters, you will do the forward propagation module. You will start by implementing some basic functions that you will use later when implementing the model. You will complete three functions in this order:

  • LINEAR
  • LINEAR -> ACTIVATION where ACTIVATION will be either ReLU or Sigmoid.
  • [LINEAR -> RELU] × (L-1) -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID (whole model)

The linear forward module (vectorized over all the examples) computes the following equations:
$$Z^{[l]} = W^{[l]}A^{[l-1]} +b^{[l]}\tag{3}$$

where $A^{[0]}=X$.

Exercise: Build the linear part of forward propagation.

Reminder:
The mathematical representation of this unit is $Z^{[l]}=W^{[l]}A^{[l−1]}+b^{[l]}$. You may also find np.dot() useful. If your dimensions don’t match, printing W.shape may help.

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# GRADED FUNCTION: linear_forward

def linear_forward(A, W, b):
"""
Implement the linear part of a layer's forward propagation.

Arguments:
A -- activations from previous layer (or input data): (size of previous layer, number of examples)
W -- weights matrix: numpy array of shape (size of current layer, size of previous layer)
b -- bias vector, numpy array of shape (size of the current layer, 1)

Returns:
Z -- the input of the activation function, also called pre-activation parameter
temperarory_holder -- a python dictionary containing "A", "W" and "b" ; stored for computing the backward pass efficiently
"""

### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 1 line of code)
Z = np.dot(W, A) + b;
### END CODE HERE ###

assert(Z.shape == (W.shape[0], A.shape[1]));
temperarory_holder = (A, W, b);

return Z, temperarory_holder;
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Z, linear_temperarory_holder = linear_forward(A, W, b);
print("Z = " + str(Z));
Z = [[ 3.26295337 -1.23429987]]

linear_forward_test_case:

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def linear_forward_test_case():
np.random.seed(1);
A = np.random.randn(3,2);
W = np.random.randn(1,3);
b = np.random.randn(1,1);
return A, W, b;

4.2 Linear-Activation Forward

In this notebook, you will use two activation functions:

  • Sigmoid: $\sigma(Z) = \sigma(W A + b) = \frac{1}{ 1 + e^{-(W A + b)} }$ We have provided you with the sigmoid function. This function returns two items: the activation value “a” and a “temperarory_holder” that contains “Z” (it’s what we will feed in to the corresponding backward function). To use it you could just call:
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  • ReLU: The mathematical formula for ReLu is A=RELU(Z)=max(0,Z). We have provided you with the relu function. This function returns two items: the activation value “A” and a “temperarory_holder” that contains “Z” (it’s what we will feed in to the corresponding backward function). To use it you could just call:
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For more convenience, you are going to group two functions (Linear and Activation) into one function (LINEAR->ACTIVATION). Hence, you will implement a function that does the LINEAR forward step followed by an ACTIVATION forward step.

Exercise: Implement the forward propagation of the LINEAR->ACTIVATION layer. Mathematical relation is:
$A^{[l]} = g(Z^{[l]}) = g(W^{[l]}A^{[l-1]} +b^{[l]})$ where the activation “g” can be sigmoid() or relu(). Use linear_forward() and the correct activation function.

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# GRADED FUNCTION: linear_activation_forward

def linear_activation_forward(A_prev, W, b, activation):
"""
Implement the forward propagation for the LINEAR->ACTIVATION layer

Arguments:
A_prev -- activations from previous layer (or input data): (size of previous layer, number of examples)
W -- weights matrix: numpy array of shape (size of current layer, size of previous layer)
b -- bias vector, numpy array of shape (size of the current layer, 1)
activation -- the activation to be used in this layer, stored as a text string: "sigmoid" or "relu"

Returns:
A -- the output of the activation function, also called the post-activation value
temperarory_holder -- a python dictionary containing "linear_temperarory_holder" and "activation_temperarory_holder";
stored for computing the backward pass efficiently
"""

if activation == "sigmoid":
# Inputs: "A_prev, W, b". Outputs: "A, activation_temperarory_holder".
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
Z, linear_temperarory_holder = linear_forward(A_prev, W, b); # Z, (W, A_prev, B)
A, activation_temperarory_holder = sigmoid(Z); # A, (Z)
### END CODE HERE ###

elif activation == "relu":
# Inputs: "A_prev, W, b". Outputs: "A, activation_temperarory_holder".
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
Z, linear_temperarory_holder = linear_forward(A_prev, W, b);
A, activation_temperarory_holder = relu(Z);
### END CODE HERE ###

assert (A.shape == (W.shape[0], A_prev.shape[1]));
temperarory_holder = (linear_temperarory_holder, activation_temperarory_holder); #, ((W, A_prev, B) ,(Z))

return A, temperarory_holder;
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A, linear_activation_temperarory_holder = linear_activation_forward(A_prev, W, b, activation = "sigmoid");
print("With sigmoid: A = " + str(A));

A, linear_activation_temperarory_holder = linear_activation_forward(A_prev, W, b, activation = "relu");
print("With ReLU: A = " + str(A));
With sigmoid: A = [[0.96890023 0.11013289]]
With ReLU: A = [[3.43896131 0.        ]]

linear_activation_forward_test_case function:

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def linear_activation_forward_test_case():
np.random.seed(2)
A_prev = np.random.randn(3,2)
W = np.random.randn(1,3)
b = np.random.randn(1,1)
return A_prev, W, b

Note: In deep learning, the “[LINEAR->ACTIVATION]” computation is counted as a single layer in the neural network, not two layers.

4.3 U-layer Model

For even more convenience when implementing the U-layer Neural Net, you will need a function that replicates the previous one (linear_activation_forward with RELU) L−1 times, then follows that with one linear_activation_forward with SIGMOID.

Exercise: Implement the forward propagation of the above model.

Instruction: In the code below, the variable AL will denote $A^{[L]} = \sigma(Z^{[L]}) = \sigma(W^{[L]} A^{[L-1]} + b^{[L]})$. (This is sometimes also called Yhat, i.e., this is $\hat{Y}$.)

Tips:

  • Use the functions you had previously written
  • Use a for loop to replicate [LINEAR->RELU] (L-1) times
  • Don’t forget to keep track of the temperarory_holders in the “temperarory_holders” list. To add a new value c to a list, you can use list.append(c).
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# GRADED FUNCTION: L_model_forward

def L_model_forward(X, parameters):
"""
Implement forward propagation for the [LINEAR->RELU]*(L-1)->LINEAR->SIGMOID computation

Arguments:
X -- data, numpy array of shape (input size, number of examples)
parameters -- output of initialize_parameters_deep()

Returns:
AL -- last post-activation value
temperarory_holders -- list of temperarory_holders containing:
every temperarory_holder of linear_relu_forward() (there are L-1 of them, indexed from 0 to L-2)
the temperarory_holder of linear_sigmoid_forward() (there is one, indexed L-1)
"""

temperarory_holders = []
A = X
L = len(parameters) // 2 # number of layers in the neural network

# Implement [LINEAR -> RELU]*(L-1). Add "temperarory_holder" to the "temperarory_holders" list.
for l in range(1, L):
A_prev = A
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
A, linear_activation_temperarory_holder = linear_activation_forward(A_prev, parameters["W" + str(l)], parameters["b" + str(l)], "relu");
temperarory_holders.append(linear_activation_temperarory_holder);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Implement LINEAR -> SIGMOID. Add "temperarory_holder" to the "temperarory_holders" list.
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
AL, linear_activation_temperarory_holder = linear_activation_forward(A, parameters["W" + str(L)], parameters["b" + str(L)], "sigmoid");
temperarory_holders.append(linear_activation_temperarory_holder);
### END CODE HERE ###

assert(AL.shape == (1,X.shape[1]));

return AL, temperarory_holders;
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print("AL = " + str(AL));
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AL = [[0.03921668 0.70498921 0.19734387 0.04728177]]
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np.random.seed(1);
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W1 = np.random.randn(3,4);
b1 = np.random.randn(3,1);
W2 = np.random.randn(1,3);
b2 = np.random.randn(1,1);
parameters = {"W1": W1,
"b1": b1,
"W2": W2,
"b2": b2};

return X, parameters;

Great! Now you have a full forward propagation that takes the input $X$ and outputs a row vector $A^{[L]}$ containing your predictions. It also records all intermediate values in “temperarory_holders”. Using $A^{[L]}$, you can compute the cost of your predictions.

5. Cost function

Now you will implement forward and backward propagation. You need to compute the cost, because you want to check if your model is actually learning.

Exercise: Compute the cross-entropy cost $J$, using the following formula:
$$-\frac{1}{m} \sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m} (y^{(i)}\log\left(a^{[L] (i)}\right) + (1-y^{(i)})\log\left(1- a^{L}\right)) \tag{4}$$

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# GRADED FUNCTION: compute_cost

def compute_cost(AL, Y):
"""
Implement the cost function defined by equation (7).

Arguments:
AL -- probability vector corresponding to your label predictions, shape (1, number of examples)
Y -- true "label" vector (for example: containing 0 if non-cat, 1 if cat), shape (1, number of examples)

Returns:
cost -- cross-entropy cost
"""

m = Y.shape[1];

# Compute loss from aL and y.
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 1 lines of code)
cost = -1 / m * (np.dot(Y, np.log(AL).T) + np.dot(1 - Y, np.log(1 - AL).T));
### END CODE HERE ###

cost = np.squeeze(cost); # To make sure your cost's shape is what we expect (e.g. this turns [[17]] into 17).
#assert(isinstance(cost, float));
assert(cost.shape == ());

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print("cost = " + str(compute_cost(AL, Y)));
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return Y, aL;

6. Backward propagation module

Just like with forward propagation, you will implement aid functions for backpropagation. Remember that back propagation is used to calculate the gradient of the loss function with respect to the parameters.

The purple blocks represent the forward propagation, and the red blocks represent the backward propagation.

$$\frac{d \mathcal{L}(a^{[2]},y)}{{C_Gradient^{[1]}}} = \frac{d\mathcal{L}(a^{[2]},y)}{{da^{[2]}}}\frac{{da^{[2]}}}{{C_Gradient^{[2]}}}\frac{{C_Gradient^{[2]}}}{{da^{[1]}}}\frac{{da^{[1]}}}{{C_Gradient^{[1]}}} \tag{5}$$

In order to calculate the gradient $dW^{[1]} = \frac{\partial L}{\partial W^{[1]}}$, you use the previous chain rule and you do $dW^{[1]} = C_Gradient^{[1]} \times \frac{\partial z^{[1]} }{\partial W^{[1]}}$, . During the backpropagation, at each step you multiply your current gradient by the gradient corresponding to the specific layer to get the gradient you wanted. Equivalently, in order to calculate the gradient $db^{[1]} = \frac{\partial L}{\partial b^{[1]}}$, you use the previous chain rule and you do $db^{[1]} = C_Gradient^{[1]} \times \frac{\partial z^{[1]} }{\partial b^{[1]}}$. This is why we talk about backpropagation.

Now, similar to forward propagation, you are going to build the backward propagation in three steps:

  • LINEAR backward
  • LINEAR -> ACTIVATION backward where ACTIVATION computes the derivative of either the ReLU or sigmoid activation
  • [LINEAR -> RELU] × (L-1) -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID backward (whole model)

6.1 Linear backward

For layer l, the linear part is: $Z^{[l]} = W^{[l]} A^{[l-1]} + b^{[l]}$, (followed by an activation).
Suppose you have already calculated the derivative $C_Gradient^{[l]} = \frac{\partial \mathcal{L} }{\partial Z^{[l]}}$. You want to get $(dW^{[l]}, db^{[l]} dA^{[l-1]})$.

The three outputs $(dW^{[l]}, db^{[l]}, dA^{[l]})$, are computed using the input $C_Gradient^{[l]}$. Here are the formulas you need:
$$dW^{[l]} = \frac{\partial \mathcal{L} }{\partial W^{[l]}} = \frac{1}{m} C_Gradient^{[l]} A^{[l-1] T} \tag{5}$$

$$db^{[l]} = \frac{\partial \mathcal{L} }{\partial b^{[l]}} = \frac{1}{m} \sum_{i = 1}^{m} C_Gradient^{l}\tag{6}$$

$$dA^{[l-1]} = \frac{\partial \mathcal{L} }{\partial A^{[l-1]}} = W^{[l] T} C_Gradient^{[l]} \tag{7}$$

Exercise: Use the 3 formulas above to implement linear_backward().

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# GRADED FUNCTION: linear_backward

def linear_backward(C_Gradient, temperarory_holder):
"""
Implement the linear portion of backward propagation for a single layer (layer l)

Arguments:
C_Gradient -- Gradient of the cost with respect to the linear output (of current layer l)
temperarory_holder -- tuple of values (A_prev, W, b) coming from the forward propagation in the current layer

Returns:
dA_prev -- Gradient of the cost with respect to the activation (of the previous layer l-1), same shape as A_prev
dW -- Gradient of the cost with respect to W (current layer l), same shape as W
db -- Gradient of the cost with respect to b (current layer l), same shape as b
"""
A_prev, W, b = temperarory_holder;
m = A_prev.shape[1];

### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 3 lines of code)
dW = 1 / m * np.dot(C_Gradient, A_prev.T);
db = 1 / m * np.sum(C_Gradient, axis = 1, keepdims = True);
dA_prev = np.dot(W.T, C_Gradient);
### END CODE HERE ###

assert (dA_prev.shape == A_prev.shape);
assert (dW.shape == W.shape);
assert (db.shape == b.shape);

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dA_prev, dW, db = linear_backward(C_Gradient, linear_temperarory_holder);
print ("dA_prev = "+ str(dA_prev));
print ("dW = " + str(dW));
print ("db = " + str(db));
dA_prev = [[ 0.51822968 -0.19517421]
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W = np.random.randn(1,3);
b = np.random.randn(1,1);
linear_temperarory_holder = (A, W, b);
return C_Gradient, linear_temperarory_holder;

6.2 Linear-Activation backward

Next, you will create a function that merges the two aid functions: linear_backward and the backward step for the activation linear_activation_backward.

To help you implement linear_activation_backward, we provided two backward functions:

  • back_sigmoid: Implements the backward propagation for SIGMOID unit. You can call it as follows:
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If g(.) is the activation function,
back_sigmoid and back_relu compute:

$$C_Gradient^{[l]} = dA^{[l]} * g’(Z^{[l]}) \tag{8}$$

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# GRADED FUNCTION: linear_activation_backward

def linear_activation_backward(dA, temperarory_holder, activation):

"""
Implement the backward propagation for the LINEAR->ACTIVATION layer.

Arguments:
dA -- post-activation gradient for current layer l
temperarory_holder -- tuple of values (linear_temperarory_holder, activation_temperarory_holder) we store for computing backward propagation efficiently
activation -- the activation to be used in this layer, stored as a text string: "sigmoid" or "relu"

Returns:
dA_prev -- Gradient of the cost with respect to the activation (of the previous layer l-1), same shape as A_prev
dW -- Gradient of the cost with respect to W (current layer l), same shape as W
db -- Gradient of the cost with respect to b (current layer l), same shape as b
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linear_temperarory_holder, activation_temperarory_holder = temperarory_holder

if activation == "relu":
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
C_Gradient = back_relu(dA, activation_temperarory_holder);
dA_prev, dW, db = linear_backward(C_Gradient, linear_temperarory_holder);
### END CODE HERE ###

elif activation == "sigmoid":
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
C_Gradient = back_sigmoid(dA, activation_temperarory_holder);
dA_prev, dW, db = linear_backward(C_Gradient, linear_temperarory_holder);
### END CODE HERE ###

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dA_prev, dW, db = linear_activation_backward(AL, linear_activation_temperarory_holder, activation = "sigmoid");
print ("sigmoid:");
print ("dA_prev = "+ str(dA_prev));
print ("dW = " + str(dW));
print ("db = " + str(db) + "\n");

dA_prev, dW, db = linear_activation_backward(AL, linear_activation_temperarory_holder, activation = "relu");
print ("relu:");
print ("dA_prev = "+ str(dA_prev));
print ("dW = " + str(dW));
print ("db = " + str(db));
sigmoid:
dA_prev = [[ 0.11017994  0.01105339]
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dW = [[ 0.10266786  0.09778551 -0.01968084]]
db = [[-0.05729622]]

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dA_prev = [[ 0.44090989  0.        ]
 [ 0.37883606  0.        ]
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dW = [[ 0.44513824  0.37371418 -0.10478989]]
db = [[-0.20837892]]

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np.random.seed(2);
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W = np.random.randn(1,3);
b = np.random.randn(1,1);
Z = np.random.randn(1,2);
linear_temperarory_holder = (A, W, b);
activation_temperarory_holder = Z;
linear_activation_temperarory_holder = (linear_temperarory_holder, activation_temperarory_holder);

return dA, linear_activation_temperarory_holder;

6.3 L-Model Backward

Now you will implement the backward function for the whole network. Recall that when you implemented the L_model_forward function, at each iteration, you stored a temperarory_holder which contains (X,W,b, and z). In the back propagation module, you will use those variables to compute the gradients. Therefore, in the L_model_backward function, you will iterate through all the hidden layers backward, starting from layer L. On each step, you will use the temperarory_holderd values for layer l to backpropagate through layer l. Figure 5 below shows the backward pass.

Initializing backpropagation:

To backpropagate through this network, we know that the output is, $A^{[L]} = \sigma(Z^{[L]})$ . Your code thus needs to compute $= \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial A^{[L]}}$.
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You can then use this post-activation gradient dAL to keep going backward. As seen in Figure 5, you can now feed in dAL into the LINEAR->SIGMOID backward function you implemented (which will use the temperarory_holderd values stored by the L_model_forward function). After that, you will have to use a for loop to iterate through all the other layers using the LINEAR->RELU backward function. You should store each dA, dW, and db in the grads dictionary. To do so, use this formula :
$$grads[“dW” + str(l)] = dW^{[l]}\tag{9}$$

For example, for l=3 this would store $dW^{[l]}$ in grads["dW3"].

Exercise: Implement backpropagation for the [LINEAR->RELU] × (L-1) -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID model.

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# GRADED FUNCTION: L_model_backward

def L_model_backward(AL, Y, temperarory_holders):
"""
Implement the backward propagation for the [LINEAR->RELU] * (L-1) -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID group

Arguments:
AL -- probability vector, output of the forward propagation (L_model_forward())
Y -- true "label" vector (containing 0 if non-cat, 1 if cat)
temperarory_holders -- list of temperarory_holders containing:
every temperarory_holder of linear_activation_forward() with "relu" (it's temperarory_holders[l], for l in range(L-1) i.e l = 0...L-2)
the temperarory_holder of linear_activation_forward() with "sigmoid" (it's temperarory_holders[L-1])

Returns:
grads -- A dictionary with the gradients
grads["dA" + str(l)] = ...
grads["dW" + str(l)] = ...
grads["db" + str(l)] = ...
"""
grads = {};
L = len(temperarory_holders); # the number of layers
m = AL.shape[1];
Y = Y.reshape(AL.shape); # after this line, Y is the same shape as AL

# Initializing the backpropagation
### START CODE HERE ### (1 line of code)
dAL = - (np.divide(Y, AL) - np.divide(1 - Y, 1 - AL));
### END CODE HERE ###

# Lth layer (SIGMOID -> LINEAR) gradients. Inputs: "AL, Y, temperarory_holders". Outputs: "grads["dAL"], grads["dWL"], grads["dbL"]
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 2 lines)
dA_prev, dW, db = linear_activation_backward(dAL, temperarory_holders[L - 1], "sigmoid");
grads["dA" + str(L)], grads["dW" + str(L)], grads["db" + str(L)] = dA_prev, dW, db;
### END CODE HERE ###

for l in reversed(range(L-1)):
# lth layer: (RELU -> LINEAR) gradients.
# Inputs: "grads["dA" + str(l + 2)], temperarory_holders". Outputs: "grads["dA" + str(l + 1)] , grads["dW" + str(l + 1)] , grads["db" + str(l + 1)]
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 5 lines)
dA = dA_prev;
dA_prev, dW, db = linear_activation_backward(dA, temperarory_holders[l], "relu");
grads["dA" + str(l + 1)] = dA_prev;
grads["dW" + str(l + 1)] = dW;
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grads = L_model_backward(AL, Y_assess, temperarory_holders);
print_grads(grads);
dW1 = [[0.41010002 0.07807203 0.13798444 0.10502167]
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dA1 = [[ 0.12913162 -0.44014127]
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L_model_backward_test_case function in testCases_v3.py:

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def L_model_backward_test_case():
"""
X = np.random.rand(3,2)
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aL, temperarory_holders = (np.array([[ 0.60298372, 0.87182628]]), [((np.array([[ 0.20445225, 0.87811744],
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np.random.seed(3)
AL = np.random.randn(1, 2)
Y = np.array([[1, 0]])

A1 = np.random.randn(4,2)
W1 = np.random.randn(3,4)
b1 = np.random.randn(3,1)
Z1 = np.random.randn(3,2)
linear_temperarory_holder_activation_1 = ((A1, W1, b1), Z1)

A2 = np.random.randn(3,2)
W2 = np.random.randn(1,3)
b2 = np.random.randn(1,1)
Z2 = np.random.randn(1,2)
linear_temperarory_holder_activation_2 = ((A2, W2, b2), Z2)

temperarory_holders = (linear_temperarory_holder_activation_1, linear_temperarory_holder_activation_2)

return AL, Y, temperarory_holders

6.4 Update Parameters

In this section you will update the parameters of the model, using gradient descent:
$$W^{[l]} = W^{[l]} - \alpha \text{ } dW^{[l]} \tag{10}$$

$$b^{[l]} = b^{[l]} - \alpha \text{ } db^{[l]} \tag{11}$$

where $α$ is the learning rate. After computing the updated parameters, store them in the parameters dictionary.

Exercise: Implement update_parameters() to update your parameters using gradient descent.

Instructions:
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def update_parameters(parameters, grads, learning_rate):
"""
Update parameters using gradient descent

Arguments:
parameters -- python dictionary containing your parameters
grads -- python dictionary containing your gradients, output of L_model_backward

Returns:
parameters -- python dictionary containing your updated parameters
parameters["W" + str(l)] = ...
parameters["b" + str(l)] = ...
"""

L = len(parameters) // 2 # number of layers in the neural network

# Update rule for each parameter. Use a for loop.
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 3 lines of code)
for l in range(L):
parameters["W" + str(l + 1)] -= learning_rate * grads["dW" + str(l + 1)];
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print ("b1 = "+ str(parameters["b1"]));
print ("W2 = "+ str(parameters["W2"]));
print ("b2 = "+ str(parameters["b2"]));
W1 = [[-0.59562069 -0.09991781 -2.14584584  1.82662008]
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b1 = [[-0.04659241]
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b1 = np.random.randn(3,1)
W2 = np.random.randn(1,3)
b2 = np.random.randn(1,1)
parameters = {"W1": W1,
"b1": b1,
"W2": W2,
"b2": b2}
np.random.seed(3)
dW1 = np.random.randn(3,4)
db1 = np.random.randn(3,1)
dW2 = np.random.randn(1,3)
db2 = np.random.randn(1,1)
grads = {"dW1": dW1,
"db1": db1,
"dW2": dW2,
"db2": db2}

return parameters, grads

7. Conclusion

Congrats on implementing all the functions required for building a deep neural network!

We know it was a long assignment but going forward it will only get better. The next part of the assignment is easier.

In the next assignment you will put all these together to build two models:

  • A two-layer neural network
  • An U-layer neural network

You will in fact use these models to classify cat vs non-cat images!

Part 2:Deep Neural Network for Image Classification: Application

1. Packages

Let’s first import all the packages that you will need during this assignment.

  • numpy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
  • matplotlib is a library to plot graphs in Python.
  • h5py is a common package to interact with a dataset that is stored on an H5 file.
  • PIL and scipy are used here to test your model with your own picture at the end.
  • dnn_app_utils provides the functions implemented in the “Building your Deep Neural Network: Step by Step” assignment to this notebook.
  • np.random.seed(1) is used to keep all the random function calls consistent. It will help us grade your work.
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import numpy as np
import h5py
import matplotlib.pyplot as plott
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from dnn_app_utils_v2 import *

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plott.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (5.0, 4.0) # set default size of plots
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plott.rcParams['image.cmap'] = 'gray'

%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2

np.random.seed(1)
The autoreload extension is already loaded. To reload it, use:
  %reload_ext autoreload

2. Dataset

You will use the same “Cat vs non-Cat” dataset as in “Logistic Regression as a Neural Network” (Assignment 2). The model you had built had 70% test accuracy on classifying cats vs non-cats images. Hopefully, your new model will perform a better!

Problem Statement: You are given a dataset (“data.h5”) containing:

  • a training set of m_train images labelled as cat (1) or non-cat (0)
  • a test set of m_test images labelled as cat and non-cat
  • each image is of shape (num_px, num_px, 3) where 3 is for the 3 channels (RGB).

Let’s get more familiar with the dataset. Load the data by running the cell below.

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# Explore your dataset 
m_train = train_x_orig.shape[0];
num_px = train_x_orig.shape[1];
m_test = test_x_orig.shape[0];

print ("Number of training examples: " + str(m_train));
print ("Number of testing examples: " + str(m_test));
print ("Each image is of size: (" + str(num_px) + ", " + str(num_px) + ", 3)");
print ("train_x_orig shape: " + str(train_x_orig.shape));
print ("train_y shape: " + str(train_y.shape));
print ("test_x_orig shape: " + str(test_x_orig.shape));
print ("test_y shape: " + str(test_y.shape));
Number of training examples: 209
Number of testing examples: 50
Each image is of size: (64, 64, 3)
train_x_orig shape: (209, 64, 64, 3)
train_y shape: (1, 209)
test_x_orig shape: (50, 64, 64, 3)
test_y shape: (1, 50)

As usual, you reshape and standardize the images before feeding them to the network. The code is given in the cell below.

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# Reshape the training and test examples 
train_x_flatten = train_x_orig.reshape(train_x_orig.shape[0], -1).T; # The "-1" makes reshape flatten the remaining dimensions
test_x_flatten = test_x_orig.reshape(test_x_orig.shape[0], -1).T;

# Standardize data to have feature values between 0 and 1.
train_x = train_x_flatten / 255.;
test_x = test_x_flatten / 255.;

print ("train_x's shape: " + str(train_x.shape));
print ("test_x's shape: " + str(test_x.shape));
train_x's shape: (12288, 209)
test_x's shape: (12288, 50)

$12288$ equals $64×64×3$ which is the size of one reshaped image vector.

3. Architecture of your model

Now that you are familiar with the dataset, it is time to build a deep neural network to distinguish cat images from non-cat images.

You will build two different models:

  • A 2-layer neural network
  • An U-layer deep neural network

You will then compare the performance of these models, and also try out different values for L.

Let’s look at the two architectures.

3.1 2-layer neural network

The model can be summarized as: INPUT -> LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID -> OUTPUT

Detailed Architecture of figure 2:

  • The input is a $(64,64,3)$ image which is flattened to a vector of size $(12288,1)$.
  • The corresponding vector: $[x_0,x_1,…,x_{12287}]^T$ is then multiplied by the weight matrix $W^{[1]}$ of size $(n^{[1]},12288)$.
  • You then add a bias term and take its relu to get the following vector: $[a^{[1]}_0,a^{[1]}1,…,a^{[1]}{n^{[1]}−1}]^T$.
  • You then repeat the same process.
  • You multiply the resulting vector by $W^{[2]}$ and add your intercept (bias).
  • Finally, you take the sigmoid of the result. If it is greater than $0.5$, you classify it to be a cat.

3.2 U-layer deep neural network

It is hard to represent an U-layer deep neural network with the above representation. However, here is a simplified network representation:
The model can be summarized as: [LINEAR -> RELU] × (L-1) -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID

Detailed Architecture of figure 3:

  • The input is a $(64,64,3)$ image which is flattened to a vector of size $(12288,1)$.
  • The corresponding vector: $[x_0,x_1,…,x_{12287}]^T$ is then multiplied by the weight matrix $W^{[1]}$ and then you add the intercept $b^{[l]}$. The result is called the linear unit.
  • Next, you take the relu of the linear unit. This process could be repeated several times for each $(W^{[l]},b^{[l]})$ depending on the model architecture.
  • Finally, you take the sigmoid of the final linear unit. If it is greater than $0.5$, you classify it to be a cat.

3.3 General methodology

As usual you will follow the Deep Learning methodology to build the model:

  1. Initialize parameters / Define hyperparameters
  2. Loop for num_iterations:
    1. Forward propagation
    2. Compute cost function
    3. Backward propagation
    4. Update parameters (using parameters, and grads from backprop)
  3. Use trained parameters to predict labels

Let’s now implement those two models!

4. Two-layer neural network

Question: Use the aid functions you have implemented in the previous assignment to build a 2-layer neural network with the following

structure: LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID. The functions you may need and their inputs are:

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def initialize_parameters(n_x, n_h, n_y):
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def linear_activation_forward(A_prev, W, b, activation):
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def compute_cost(AL, Y):
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def linear_activation_backward(dA, temperarory_holder, activation):
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def update_parameters(parameters, grads, learning_rate):
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n_x = 12288; # num_px * num_px * 3
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#GRADED FUNCTION: two_layer_model

def two_layer_model(X, Y, layers_dims, learning_rate = 0.0075, num_iterations = 3000, print_cost=False):
"""
Implements a two-layer neural network: LINEAR->RELU->LINEAR->SIGMOID.

Arguments:
X -- input data, of shape (n_x, number of examples)
Y -- true "label" vector (containing 0 if cat, 1 if non-cat), of shape (1, number of examples)
layers_dims -- dimensions of the layers (n_x, n_h, n_y)
num_iterations -- number of iterations of the optimization loop
learning_rate -- learning rate of the gradient descent update rule
print_cost -- If set to True, this will print the cost every 100 iterations

Returns:
parameters -- a dictionary containing W1, W2, b1, and b2
"""

np.random.seed(1);
grads = {};
costs = []; # to keep track of the cost
m = X.shape[1]; # number of examples
(n_x, n_h, n_y) = layers_dims;

# Initialize parameters dictionary, by calling one of the functions you'd previously implemented
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 1 line of code)
parameters = initialize_parameters(n_x, n_h, n_y);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Get W1, b1, W2 and b2 from the dictionary parameters.
W1 = parameters["W1"];
b1 = parameters["b1"];
W2 = parameters["W2"];
b2 = parameters["b2"];

# Loop (gradient descent)

for i in range(0, num_iterations):

# Forward propagation: LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID. Inputs: "X, W1, b1". Output: "A1, temperarory_holder1, A2, temperarory_holder2".
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
A1, temperarory_holder1 = linear_activation_forward(X, W1, b1, "relu");
A2, temperarory_holder2 = linear_activation_forward(A1, W2, b2, "sigmoid");
### END CODE HERE ###

# Compute cost
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 1 line of code)
cost = compute_cost(A2, Y);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Initializing backward propagation
dA2 = - (np.divide(Y, A2) - np.divide(1 - Y, 1 - A2));

# Backward propagation. Inputs: "dA2, temperarory_holder2, temperarory_holder1". Outputs: "dA1, dW2, db2; also dA0 (not used), dW1, db1".
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 2 lines of code)
dA1, dW2, db2 = linear_activation_backward(dA2, temperarory_holder2, "sigmoid");
dA0, dW1, db1 = linear_activation_backward(dA1, temperarory_holder1, "relu");
### END CODE HERE ###

# Set grads['dWl'] to dW1, grads['db1'] to db1, grads['dW2'] to dW2, grads['db2'] to db2
grads['dW1'] = dW1;
grads['db1'] = db1;
grads['dW2'] = dW2;
grads['db2'] = db2;

# Update parameters.
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 1 line of code)
parameters = update_parameters(parameters, grads, learning_rate);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Retrieve W1, b1, W2, b2 from parameters
W1 = parameters["W1"];
b1 = parameters["b1"];
W2 = parameters["W2"];
b2 = parameters["b2"];

# Print the cost every 100 training example
if print_cost and i % 100 == 0:
print("Cost after iteration {}: {}".format(i, np.squeeze(cost)));
if print_cost and i % 100 == 0:
costs.append(cost);

# plot the cost

plott.plot(np.squeeze(costs));
plott.ylabel('cost');
plott.xlabel('iterations (per tens)');
plott.title("Learning rate =" + str(learning_rate));
plott.show();

return parameters;

Run the cell below to train your parameters. See if your model runs. The cost should be decreasing. It may take up to 5 minutes to run 2500 iterations. Check if the “Cost after iteration 0” matches the expected output below, if not click on the black square button on the upper bar of the notebook to stop the cell and try to find your error.

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Cost after iteration 0: 0.693049735659989
Cost after iteration 100: 0.6464320953428849
Cost after iteration 200: 0.6325140647912678
Cost after iteration 300: 0.6015024920354665
Cost after iteration 400: 0.5601966311605748
Cost after iteration 500: 0.5158304772764729
Cost after iteration 600: 0.4754901313943325
Cost after iteration 700: 0.43391631512257495
Cost after iteration 800: 0.4007977536203886
Cost after iteration 900: 0.35807050113237976
Cost after iteration 1000: 0.33942815383664127
Cost after iteration 1100: 0.3052753636196264
Cost after iteration 1200: 0.2749137728213016
Cost after iteration 1300: 0.2468176821061484
Cost after iteration 1400: 0.19850735037466102
Cost after iteration 1500: 0.1744831811255665
Cost after iteration 1600: 0.17080762978096942
Cost after iteration 1700: 0.11306524562164715
Cost after iteration 1800: 0.09629426845937152
Cost after iteration 1900: 0.0834261795972687
Cost after iteration 2000: 0.07439078704319087
Cost after iteration 2100: 0.06630748132267934
Cost after iteration 2200: 0.05919329501038172
Cost after iteration 2300: 0.053361403485605585
Cost after iteration 2400: 0.04855478562877019

Good thing you built a vectorized implementation! Otherwise it might have taken 10 times longer to train this.

Now, you can use the trained parameters to classify images from the dataset. To see your predictions on the training and test sets, run the cell below.

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Accuracy: 0.9999999999999998
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Accuracy: 0.72

the prediction function:

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def predict(X, y, parameters):
"""
This function is used to predict the results of a U-layer neural network.

Arguments:
X -- data set of examples you would like to label
parameters -- parameters of the trained model

Returns:
p -- predictions for the given dataset X
"""

m = X.shape[1]
n = len(parameters) // 2 # number of layers in the neural network
p = np.zeros((1,m))

# Forward propagation
probas, temperarory_holders = L_model_forward(X, parameters)


# convert probas to 0/1 predictions
for i in range(0, probas.shape[1]):
if probas[0,i] > 0.5:
p[0,i] = 1
else:
p[0,i] = 0

print("Accuracy: " + str(np.sum((p == y)/m)))

return p

Note: You may notice that running the model on fewer iterations (say 1500) gives better accuracy on the test set. This is called “early stopping” and we will talk about it in the next course. Early stopping is a way to prevent overfitting.

Congratulations! It seems that your 2-layer neural network has better performance (72%) than the logistic regression implementation (70%, assignment week 2). Let’s see if you can do even better with an U-layer model.

5. U-layer Neural Network

Question: Use the aid functions you have implemented previously to build an U-layer neural network with the following structure: [LINEAR -> RELU]×(L-1) -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID. The functions you may need and their inputs are:

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# GRADED FUNCTION: L_layer_model

def L_layer_model(X, Y, layers_dims, learning_rate = 0.0075, num_iterations = 3000, print_cost=False):#lr was 0.009
"""
Implements a U-layer neural network: [LINEAR->RELU]*(L-1)->LINEAR->SIGMOID.

Arguments:
X -- data, numpy array of shape (number of examples, num_px * num_px * 3)
Y -- true "label" vector (containing 0 if cat, 1 if non-cat), of shape (1, number of examples)
layers_dims -- list containing the input size and each layer size, of length (number of layers + 1).
learning_rate -- learning rate of the gradient descent update rule
num_iterations -- number of iterations of the optimization loop
print_cost -- if True, it prints the cost every 100 steps

Returns:
parameters -- parameters learnt by the model. They can then be used to predict.
"""

np.random.seed(1)
costs = [] # keep track of cost

# Parameters initialization.
### START CODE HERE ###
parameters = initialize_parameters_deep(layers_dims);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Loop (gradient descent)
for i in range(0, num_iterations):

# Forward propagation: [LINEAR -> RELU]*(L-1) -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID.
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 1 line of code)
AL, temperarory_holders =L_model_forward(X, parameters);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Compute cost.
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 1 line of code)
cost = compute_cost(AL, Y);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Backward propagation.
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 1 line of code)
grads = L_model_backward(AL, Y, temperarory_holders);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Update parameters.
### START CODE HERE ### (≈ 1 line of code)
parameters = update_parameters(parameters, grads, learning_rate);
### END CODE HERE ###

# Print the cost every 100 training example
if print_cost and i % 100 == 0:
print ("Cost after iteration %i: %f" %(i, cost));
if print_cost and i % 100 == 0:
costs.append(cost);

# plot the cost
plott.plot(np.squeeze(costs));
plott.ylabel('cost');
plott.xlabel('iterations (per tens)');
plott.title("Learning rate =" + str(learning_rate));
plott.show();

return parameters;

You will now train the model as a 5-layer neural network.

Run the cell below to train your model. The cost should decrease on every iteration. It may take up to 5 minutes to run 2500 iterations. Check if the “Cost after iteration 0” matches the expected output below, if not click on the black square button on the upper bar of the notebook to stop the cell and try to find your error.

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Cost after iteration 0: 0.771749
Cost after iteration 100: 0.672053
Cost after iteration 200: 0.648263
Cost after iteration 300: 0.611507
Cost after iteration 400: 0.567047
Cost after iteration 500: 0.540138
Cost after iteration 600: 0.527930
Cost after iteration 700: 0.465477
Cost after iteration 800: 0.369126
Cost after iteration 900: 0.391747
Cost after iteration 1000: 0.315187
Cost after iteration 1100: 0.272700
Cost after iteration 1200: 0.237419
Cost after iteration 1300: 0.199601
Cost after iteration 1400: 0.189263
Cost after iteration 1500: 0.161189
Cost after iteration 1600: 0.148214
Cost after iteration 1700: 0.137775
Cost after iteration 1800: 0.129740
Cost after iteration 1900: 0.121225
Cost after iteration 2000: 0.113821
Cost after iteration 2100: 0.107839
Cost after iteration 2200: 0.102855
Cost after iteration 2300: 0.100897
Cost after iteration 2400: 0.092878
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Accuracy: 0.9856459330143539
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Accuracy: 0.8

Congrats! It seems that your 5-layer neural network has better performance $(80%) $than your 2-layer neural network $(72%)$ on the same test set.

This is good performance for this task. Nice job!

Though in the next course on “Improving deep neural networks” you will learn how to obtain even higher accuracy by systematically searching for better hyperparameters (learning_rate, layers_dims, num_iterations, and others you’ll also learn in the next course).

6. Results Analysis

First, let’s take a look at some images the U-layer model labeled incorrectly. This will show a few mislabeled images.

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A few type of images the model tends to do poorly on include:

  • Cat body in an unusual position
  • Cat appears against a background of a similar color
  • Unusual cat color and species
  • Camera Angle
  • Brightness of the picture
  • Scale variation (cat is very large or small in image)

7. Test with your own image (optional/ungraded exercise)

Congratulations on finishing this assignment. You can use your own image and see the output of your model. To do that:

  1. Click on “File” in the upper bar of this notebook, then click “Open” to go on your Coursera Hub.
  2. Add your image to this Jupyter Notebook’s directory, in the “images” folder
  3. Change your image’s name in the following code
  4. Run the code and check if the algorithm is right (1 = cat, 0 = non-cat)!
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my_image = "1.png"; # change this to the name of your image file
my_label_y = [1]; # the true class of your image (1 -> cat, 0 -> non-cat)
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fname = "images/" + my_image;
image = np.array(ndimage.imread(fname, flatten=False));
my_image = scipy.misc.imresize(image, size=(num_px,num_px)).reshape((num_px * num_px * 3,1));
my_predicted_image = predict(my_image, my_label_y, parameters);

plott.imshow(image);
print ("y = " + str(np.squeeze(my_predicted_image)) + ", your U-layer model predicts a \"" + classes[int(np.squeeze(my_predicted_image)),].decode("utf-8") + "\" picture.");
Accuracy: 1.0
y = 1.0, your U-layer model predicts a "cat" picture.

Credits to the teacher