# Hello FASHION MNIST!¶

TorchFusion makes data loading, network definition and training very easy. As you will see in this tutorial. We shall be training a basic pytorch model on the Fashion MNIST dataset.

FASHION MNIST DESCRIPTION

MNIST has been over-explored, state-of-the-art on MNIST doesn’t make much sense with over 99% already achieved. Fashion MNIST provides a more challenging version of the MNIST dataset. It contains 10 classes of grayscale diagrams of fashion items. It is exactly the same size, dimension and format as MNIST, but it is more challenging, hence, it is provides a dataset that is both fast to train and yet challenging enough to benchmark new models. Below are samples from the FashionMNIST dataset.

Import Classes

from torchfusion.layers import *
from torchfusion.datasets import *
from torchfusion.metrics import *
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.cuda as cuda
from torchfusion.learners import StandardLearner


train_loader = fashionmnist_loader(size=28,batch_size=32)


If you have used PyTorch before, you will notice just how simpler the data loading process is, this function still allows you to specify custom transformations. By default, TorchFusion loaders will normalize the images to range between -1 to 1, you can control the default normalization using the mean and std args.

Define the model

model = nn.Sequential(
Flatten(),
Linear(784,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,10)
)


The above is a simple 4 layer MLP, notice that all the layers above are from torchfusion. Unlike pure pytorch layers, torchfusion layers have optimal initialization by default, and you can easily specify custom initialization for them. However, they are still 100% compatible with their equivalent pytorch layers. You can also mix pure pytorch and torchfusion layers in the same model.

Define optimizer and loss

if cuda.is_available():
model = model.cuda()

loss_fn = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

train_metrics = [Accuracy()]
test_metrics = [Accuracy()]


Print Summary and Train the model

learner = StandardLearner(model)

if __name__ == "__main__":
learner.summary((1,28,28))


PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

from torchfusion.layers import *
from torchfusion.datasets import *
from torchfusion.metrics import *
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.cuda as cuda
from torchfusion.learners import StandardLearner

model = nn.Sequential(
Flatten(),
Linear(784,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,10)
)

if cuda.is_available():
model = model.cuda()

loss_fn = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

train_metrics = [Accuracy()]
test_metrics = [Accuracy()]

learner = StandardLearner(model)

if __name__ == "__main__":

print(learner.summary((1,28,28)))


Running the code above should reach an accuracy of about 90% after 30 epochs.

You can enable and disable epoch-end visualizations with the boolean args: display_metrics and save_metrics

PERFORMANCE METRICS

The Accuracy class measures the the topK accuracy. The default is top1, however, you can easily specify any K level.

Top K metric example:

train_metrics = [Accuracy(),Accuracy(topK=2),Accuracy(topK=5)]


Load the saved weights and evaluate performance on test set

We have just trained a classifier on Fashion MNIST and evaluated the performance at the end of each epoch. You can also use the evaluation function to evaluate the test performance separately.

Run evaluation

if __name__ == "__main__":
top1_acc = Accuracy()
top5_acc = Accuracy(topK=5)

print("Top1 Acc: {} Top5 Acc: {}".format(top1_acc.getValue(),top5_acc.getValue()))


This produces Top1 Acc: 0.871399998664856 Top5 Acc: 0.996999979019165

Inference

The ultimate goal of training models is to use them to classify new images, now that we have trained the model on fashion images, save the images below and use the code after to classify them

Inference code

import torch
from torchfusion.layers import *
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.cuda as cuda
from torchfusion.learners import StandardLearner

model = nn.Sequential(
Flatten(),
Linear(784,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,100),
Swish(),
Linear(100,10)
)

if cuda.is_available():
model = model.cuda()

learner = StandardLearner(model)

if __name__ == "__main__":

#map class indexes to class names
class_map = {0:"T-Shirt",1:"Trouser",2:"Pullover",3:"Dress",4:"Coat",5:"Sandal",6:"Shirt",7:"Sneaker",8:"Bag",9:"Ankle Boot"}

image = image.unsqueeze(0)

#run prediction
pred = learner.predict(image)

#convert prediction to probabilities
pred = torch.softmax(pred,0)

#get the predicted class
pred_class = pred.argmax().item()

#get confidence for the prediction
pred_conf = pred.max().item()

#Map class_index to name
class_name = class_map[pred_class]
print("Predicted Class: {}, Confidence: {}".format(class_name,pred_conf))