概述
Gradient Checking
Welcome to the final assignment for this week! In this assignment you will learn to implement and use gradient checking.
You are part of a team working to make mobile payments available globally, and are asked to build a deep learning model to detect fraud–whenever someone makes a payment, you want to see if the payment might be fraudulent, such as if the user’s account has been taken over by a hacker.
But backpropagation is quite challenging to implement, and sometimes has bugs. Because this is a mission-critical application, your company’s CEO wants to be really certain that your implementation of backpropagation is correct. Your CEO says, “Give me a proof that your backpropagation is actually working!” To give this reassurance, you are going to use “gradient checking”.
Let’s do it!
# Packages
import numpy as np
from testCases import *
from gc_utils import sigmoid, relu, dictionary_to_vector, vector_to_dictionary, gradients_to_vector
1) How does gradient checking work?
Backpropagation computes the gradients ∂J∂θ , where θ denotes the parameters of the model. J is computed using forward propagation and your loss function.
Because forward propagation is relatively easy to implement, you’re confident you got that right, and so you’re almost
100% sure that you’re computing the cost
Let’s look back at the definition of a derivative (or gradient):
If you’re not familiar with the “ limε→0 ” notation, it’s just a way of saying “when ε is really really small.”
We know the following:
- ∂J∂θ is what you want to make sure you’re computing correctly.
- You can compute J(θ+ε) and J(θ−ε) (in the case that θ is a real number), since you’re confident your implementation for J is correct.
Lets use equation (1) and a small value for
2) 1-dimensional gradient checking
Consider a 1D linear function J(θ)=θx . The model contains only a single real-valued parameter θ , and takes x as input.
You will implement code to compute
The diagram above shows the key computation steps: First start with
Exercise: implement “forward propagation” and “backward propagation” for this simple function. I.e., compute both J(.) (“forward propagation”) and its derivative with respect to θ (“backward propagation”), in two separate functions.
# GRADED FUNCTION: forward_propagation
def forward_propagation(x, theta):
"""
Implement the linear forward propagation (compute J) presented in Figure 1 (J(theta) = theta * x)
Arguments:
x -- a real-valued input
theta -- our parameter, a real number as well
Returns:
J -- the value of function J, computed using the formula J(theta) = theta * x
"""
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 1 line)
J = theta * x
### END CODE HERE ###
return J
x, theta = 2, 4
J = forward_propagation(x, theta)
print ("J = " + str(J))
J = 8
Expected Output:
# GRADED FUNCTION: backward_propagation
def backward_propagation(x, theta):
"""
Computes the derivative of J with respect to theta (see Figure 1).
Arguments:
x -- a real-valued input
theta -- our parameter, a real number as well
Returns:
dtheta -- the gradient of the cost with respect to theta
"""
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 1 line)
dtheta = x
### END CODE HERE ###
return dtheta
x, theta = 2, 4
dtheta = backward_propagation(x, theta)
print ("dtheta = " + str(dtheta))
dtheta = 2
Expected Output:
** dtheta ** | 2 |
Exercise: To show that the backward_propagation()
function is correctly computing the gradient
∂J∂θ
, let’s implement gradient checking.
Instructions:
- First compute “gradapprox” using the formula above (1) and a small value of
ε
. Here are the Steps to follow:
1.
θ+=θ+ε
2.
θ−=θ−ε
3.
J+=J(θ+)
4.
J−=J(θ−)
5.
gradapprox=J+−J−2ε
- Then compute the gradient using backward propagation, and store the result in a variable “grad”
- Finally, compute the relative difference between “gradapprox” and the “grad” using the following formula:
You will need 3 Steps to compute this formula:
- 1’. compute the numerator using np.linalg.norm(…)
- 2’. compute the denominator. You will need to call np.linalg.norm(…) twice.
- 3’. divide them.
- If this difference is small (say less than 10−7 ), you can be quite confident that you have computed your gradient correctly. Otherwise, there may be a mistake in the gradient computation.
# GRADED FUNCTION: gradient_check
def gradient_check(x, theta, epsilon = 1e-7):
"""
Implement the backward propagation presented in Figure 1.
Arguments:
x -- a real-valued input
theta -- our parameter, a real number as well
epsilon -- tiny shift to the input to compute approximated gradient with formula(1)
Returns:
difference -- difference (2) between the approximated gradient and the backward propagation gradient
"""
# Compute gradapprox using left side of formula (1). epsilon is small enough, you don't need to worry about the limit.
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 5 lines)
thetaplus = theta+epsilon
# Step 1
thetaminus = theta-epsilon
# Step 2
J_plus = forward_propagation(x,thetaplus)
# Step 3
J_minus = forward_propagation(x,thetaminus)
# Step 4
gradapprox = (J_plus-J_minus)/2/epsilon
# Step 5
### END CODE HERE ###
# Check if gradapprox is close enough to the output of backward_propagation()
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 1 line)
grad = backward_propagation(x,theta)
### END CODE HERE ###
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 1 line)
numerator = np.linalg.norm(grad-gradapprox)
# Step 1'
denominator = np.linalg.norm(grad)+np.linalg.norm(gradapprox)
# Step 2'
difference = numerator/denominator
# Step 3'
### END CODE HERE ###
if difference < 1e-7:
print ("The gradient is correct!")
else:
print ("The gradient is wrong!")
return difference
x, theta = 2, 4
difference = gradient_check(x, theta)
print("difference = " + str(difference))
The gradient is correct!
difference = 2.91933588329e-10
Expected Output:
The gradient is correct!
** difference ** | 2.9193358103083e-10 |
Congrats, the difference is smaller than the
10−7
threshold. So you can have high confidence that you’ve correctly computed the gradient in backward_propagation()
.
Now, in the more general case, your cost function
J
has more than a single 1D input. When you are training a neural network,
3) N-dimensional gradient checking
The following figure describes the forward and backward propagation of your fraud detection model.
LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID
Let’s look at your implementations for forward propagation and backward propagation.
def forward_propagation_n(X, Y, parameters):
"""
Implements the forward propagation (and computes the cost) presented in Figure 3.
Arguments:
X -- training set for m examples
Y -- labels for m examples
parameters -- python dictionary containing your parameters "W1", "b1", "W2", "b2", "W3", "b3":
W1 -- weight matrix of shape (5, 4)
b1 -- bias vector of shape (5, 1)
W2 -- weight matrix of shape (3, 5)
b2 -- bias vector of shape (3, 1)
W3 -- weight matrix of shape (1, 3)
b3 -- bias vector of shape (1, 1)
Returns:
cost -- the cost function (logistic cost for one example)
"""
# retrieve parameters
m = X.shape[1]
W1 = parameters["W1"]
b1 = parameters["b1"]
W2 = parameters["W2"]
b2 = parameters["b2"]
W3 = parameters["W3"]
b3 = parameters["b3"]
# LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> RELU -> LINEAR -> SIGMOID
Z1 = np.dot(W1, X) + b1
A1 = relu(Z1)
Z2 = np.dot(W2, A1) + b2
A2 = relu(Z2)
Z3 = np.dot(W3, A2) + b3
A3 = sigmoid(Z3)
# Cost
logprobs = np.multiply(-np.log(A3),Y) + np.multiply(-np.log(1 - A3), 1 - Y)
cost = 1./m * np.sum(logprobs)
cache = (Z1, A1, W1, b1, Z2, A2, W2, b2, Z3, A3, W3, b3)
return cost, cache
Now, run backward propagation.
def backward_propagation_n(X, Y, cache):
"""
Implement the backward propagation presented in figure 2.
Arguments:
X -- input datapoint, of shape (input size, 1)
Y -- true "label"
cache -- cache output from forward_propagation_n()
Returns:
gradients -- A dictionary with the gradients of the cost with respect to each parameter, activation and pre-activation variables.
"""
m = X.shape[1]
(Z1, A1, W1, b1, Z2, A2, W2, b2, Z3, A3, W3, b3) = cache
dZ3 = A3 - Y
dW3 = 1./m * np.dot(dZ3, A2.T)
db3 = 1./m * np.sum(dZ3, axis=1, keepdims = True)
dA2 = np.dot(W3.T, dZ3)
dZ2 = np.multiply(dA2, np.int64(A2 > 0))
dW2 = 1./m * np.dot(dZ2, A1.T) * 2
db2 = 1./m * np.sum(dZ2, axis=1, keepdims = True)
dA1 = np.dot(W2.T, dZ2)
dZ1 = np.multiply(dA1, np.int64(A1 > 0))
dW1 = 1./m * np.dot(dZ1, X.T)
db1 = 4./m * np.sum(dZ1, axis=1, keepdims = True)
gradients = {"dZ3": dZ3, "dW3": dW3, "db3": db3,
"dA2": dA2, "dZ2": dZ2, "dW2": dW2, "db2": db2,
"dA1": dA1, "dZ1": dZ1, "dW1": dW1, "db1": db1}
return gradients
You obtained some results on the fraud detection test set but you are not 100% sure of your model. Nobody’s perfect! Let’s implement gradient checking to verify if your gradients are correct.
How does gradient checking work?.
As in 1) and 2), you want to compare “gradapprox” to the gradient computed by backpropagation. The formula is still:
However,
θ
is not a scalar anymore. It is a dictionary called “parameters”. We implemented a function “dictionary_to_vector()
” for you. It converts the “parameters” dictionary into a vector called “values”, obtained by reshaping all parameters (W1, b1, W2, b2, W3, b3) into vectors and concatenating them.
The inverse function is “vector_to_dictionary
” which outputs back the “parameters” dictionary.
You will need these functions in gradient_check_n()
We have also converted the “gradients” dictionary into a vector “grad” using gradients_to_vector(). You don’t need to worry about that.
Exercise: Implement gradient_check_n().
Instructions: Here is pseudo-code that will help you implement the gradient check.
For each i in num_parameters:
- To compute J_plus[i]
:
1. Set
θ+
to np.copy(parameters_values)
2. Set
θ+i
to
θ+i+ε
3. Calculate
J+i
using to forward_propagation_n(x, y, vector_to_dictionary(
θ+
))
.
- To compute J_minus[i]
: do the same thing with
θ−
- Compute
gradapprox[i]=J+i−J−i2ε
Thus, you get a vector gradapprox, where gradapprox[i] is an approximation of the gradient with respect to parameter_values[i]
. You can now compare this gradapprox vector to the gradients vector from backpropagation. Just like for the 1D case (Steps 1’, 2’, 3’), compute:
# GRADED FUNCTION: gradient_check_n
def gradient_check_n(parameters, gradients, X, Y, epsilon = 1e-7):
"""
Checks if backward_propagation_n computes correctly the gradient of the cost output by forward_propagation_n
Arguments:
parameters -- python dictionary containing your parameters "W1", "b1", "W2", "b2", "W3", "b3":
grad -- output of backward_propagation_n, contains gradients of the cost with respect to the parameters.
x -- input datapoint, of shape (input size, 1)
y -- true "label"
epsilon -- tiny shift to the input to compute approximated gradient with formula(1)
Returns:
difference -- difference (2) between the approximated gradient and the backward propagation gradient
"""
# Set-up variables
parameters_values, _ = dictionary_to_vector(parameters)
grad = gradients_to_vector(gradients)
num_parameters = parameters_values.shape[0]
J_plus = np.zeros((num_parameters, 1))
J_minus = np.zeros((num_parameters, 1))
gradapprox = np.zeros((num_parameters, 1))
# Compute gradapprox
for i in range(num_parameters):
# Compute J_plus[i]. Inputs: "parameters_values, epsilon". Output = "J_plus[i]".
# "_" is used because the function you have to outputs two parameters but we only care about the first one
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 3 lines)
thetaplus = np.copy(parameters_values)
# Step 1
thetaplus[i][0] = thetaplus[i][0]+epsilon
# Step 2
J_plus[i], _ = forward_propagation_n(X, Y, vector_to_dictionary(thetaplus))
# Step 3
### END CODE HERE ###
# Compute J_minus[i]. Inputs: "parameters_values, epsilon". Output = "J_minus[i]".
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 3 lines)
thetaminus = np.copy(parameters_values)
# Step 1
thetaminus[i][0] = thetaminus[i][0]-epsilon
# Step 2
J_minus[i], _ = forward_propagation_n(X, Y, vector_to_dictionary(thetaminus))
# Step 3
### END CODE HERE ###
# Compute gradapprox[i]
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 1 line)
gradapprox[i] = (J_plus[i]-J_minus[i])/2/epsilon
### END CODE HERE ###
# Compare gradapprox to backward propagation gradients by computing difference.
### START CODE HERE ### (approx. 1 line)
numerator = np.linalg.norm(grad-gradapprox)
# Step 1'
denominator = np.linalg.norm(grad)+np.linalg.norm(gradapprox)
# Step 2'
difference = numerator/denominator
# Step 3'
### END CODE HERE ###
if difference > 1e-7:
print ("