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Optimization, the central part of any Machine Learning algortithm
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Revisiting our Logistic Regression case
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The equations to solve
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Solving using Newton-Raphsons method
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Brief reminder on Newton-Raphsons method
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The equations
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Simple geometric interpretation
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Extending to more than one variable
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Steepest descent
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The ideal
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The sensitiveness of the gradient descent
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Convex functions
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Convex function
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Conditions on convex functions
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Some simple problems
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Standard steepest descent
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Gradient method
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Steepest descent method
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Steepest descent method
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Final expressions
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Steepest descent example
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method and iterations
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Revisiting our first homework
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Gradient descent example
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The derivative of the cost/loss function
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The Hessian matrix
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Simple program
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Gradient Descent Example
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And a corresponding example using
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Gradient descent and Ridge
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The Hessian matrix for Ridge Regression
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Program example for gradient descent with Ridge Regression
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Using gradient descent methods, limitations
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Improving gradient descent with momentum
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Same code but now with momentum gradient descent
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Overview video on Stochastic Gradient Descent
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Batches and mini-batches
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Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)
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Stochastic Gradient Descent
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Computation of gradients
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SGD example
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The gradient step
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Simple example code
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When do we stop?
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Slightly different approach
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Time decay rate
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Replace or not
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Momentum based GD
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More on momentum based approaches
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Momentum parameter
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Second moment of the gradient
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RMS prop
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ADAM optimizer
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Algorithms and codes for Adagrad, RMSprop and Adam
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Practical tips
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Automatic differentiation
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Using autograd
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Autograd with more complicated functions
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More complicated functions using the elements of their arguments directly
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Functions using mathematical functions from Numpy
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More autograd
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And with loops
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Using recursion
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Unsupported functions
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The syntax a.dot(b) when finding the dot product
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Recommended to avoid
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Using Autograd with OLS
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Same code but now with momentum gradient descent
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But noen of these can compete with Newtons method
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Including Stochastic Gradient Descent with Autograd
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Same code but now with momentum gradient descent
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Similar (second order function now) problem but now with AdaGrad
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RMSprop for adaptive learning rate with Stochastic Gradient Descent
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And finally ADAM
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And Logistic Regression
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<a class="reference internal nav-link" href="#plan-for-week-39">
Plan for week 39
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Optimization, the central part of any Machine Learning algortithm
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Revisiting our Logistic Regression case
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The equations to solve
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Solving using Newton-Raphsons method
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Brief reminder on Newton-Raphsons method
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The equations
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Simple geometric interpretation
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Extending to more than one variable
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Steepest descent
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<a class="reference internal nav-link" href="#more-on-steepest-descent">
More on Steepest descent
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The ideal
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The sensitiveness of the gradient descent
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Convex functions
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Convex function
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Conditions on convex functions
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More on convex functions
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Some simple problems
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Standard steepest descent
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Gradient method
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Steepest descent method
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Steepest descent method
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Final expressions
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Steepest descent example
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method and iterations
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Conjugate gradient method
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Revisiting our first homework
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Gradient descent example
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The derivative of the cost/loss function
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The Hessian matrix
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Simple program
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Gradient Descent Example
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And a corresponding example using
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Gradient descent and Ridge
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The Hessian matrix for Ridge Regression
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Program example for gradient descent with Ridge Regression
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Using gradient descent methods, limitations
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Improving gradient descent with momentum
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Same code but now with momentum gradient descent
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<a class="reference internal nav-link" href="#overview-video-on-stochastic-gradient-descent">
Overview video on Stochastic Gradient Descent
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Batches and mini-batches
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Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)
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Stochastic Gradient Descent
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Computation of gradients
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SGD example
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The gradient step
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Simple example code
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When do we stop?
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Slightly different approach
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Time decay rate
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Code with a Number of Minibatches which varies
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Replace or not
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Momentum based GD
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<a class="reference internal nav-link" href="#more-on-momentum-based-approaches">
More on momentum based approaches
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Momentum parameter
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Second moment of the gradient
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RMS prop
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ADAM optimizer
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Algorithms and codes for Adagrad, RMSprop and Adam
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Practical tips
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Automatic differentiation
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Using autograd
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Autograd with more complicated functions
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More complicated functions using the elements of their arguments directly
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Functions using mathematical functions from Numpy
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More autograd
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And with loops
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Using recursion
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Unsupported functions
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Recommended to avoid
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Using Autograd with OLS
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Same code but now with momentum gradient descent
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Including Stochastic Gradient Descent with Autograd
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Similar (second order function now) problem but now with AdaGrad
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RMSprop for adaptive learning rate with Stochastic Gradient Descent
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<h1>Week 39: Optimization and Gradient Methods<a class="headerlink" href="#week-39-optimization-and-gradient-methods" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p><strong>Morten Hjorth-Jensen</strong>, Department of Physics, University of Oslo and Department of Physics and Astronomy and Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University</p>
<p>Date: <strong>Week 39</strong></p>
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<h2>Plan for week 39<a class="headerlink" href="#plan-for-week-39" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><strong>Material for the active learning sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday.</strong></p>
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<li><p>Discussions on how to structure your report for the first project</p></li>
<li><p>Exercise for week 39 on how to write the abstract and the introduction of the report and how to include references.</p></li>
<li><p>Work on project 1, in particular resampling methods like cross-validation and bootstrap. <strong>For more discussions of project 1, chapter 5 of Goodfellow et al is a good read, in particular sections 5.1-5.5 and 5.7-5.11</strong>.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://youtu.be/tVW1ZDmZnwM">Video on how to write scientific reports recorded during one of the lab sessions</a></p></li>
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<p>These sections summarize neatly what we have done till now and point to what is coming with respect to deep learning.</p>
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<li><p>A general guideline can be found at <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/CompPhysics/MachineLearning/blob/master/doc/Projects/EvaluationGrading/EvaluationForm.md">https://github.com/CompPhysics/MachineLearning/blob/master/doc/Projects/EvaluationGrading/EvaluationForm.md</a>.</p></li>
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<p><strong>Material for the lecture on Thursday September 28.</strong></p>
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<li><p>Repetition of Logistic regression equations and classification problems and discussion of Gradient methods. Examples on how to implement Logistic Regression and discussion of stochastic gradient descent</p></li>
<li><p>Stochastic Gradient descent with examples and automatic differentiation</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://youtu.be/bFRVuIJroHs">Video of lecture</a></p></li>
<li><p>Whiteboard notes TBA at <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/CompPhysics/MachineLearning/blob/master/doc/HandWrittenNotes/2023/NotesSep28.pdf">https://github.com/CompPhysics/MachineLearning/blob/master/doc/HandWrittenNotes/2023/NotesSep28.pdf</a></p></li>
<li><p>Readings and Videos:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>These lecture notes</p></li>
<li><p>For a good discussion on gradient methods, we would like to recommend Goodfellow et al section 4.3-4.5 and sections 8.3-8.6. We will come back to the latter chapter in our discussion of Neural networks as well.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDv4f4s2SB8">Video on gradient descent</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMh0zPT0tLI">Video on stochastic gradient descent</a></p></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="optimization-the-central-part-of-any-machine-learning-algortithm">
<h2>Optimization, the central part of any Machine Learning algortithm<a class="headerlink" href="#optimization-the-central-part-of-any-machine-learning-algortithm" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The first few slides here are a repetition from last week.</p>
<p>Almost every problem in machine learning and data science starts with
a dataset <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(X\)</span>, a model <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(g(\beta)\)</span>, which is a function of the
parameters <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> and a cost function <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C(X, g(\beta))\)</span> that allows
us to judge how well the model <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(g(\beta)\)</span> explains the observations
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(X\)</span>. The model is fit by finding the values of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> that minimize
the cost function. Ideally we would be able to solve for <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span>
analytically, however this is not possible in general and we must use
some approximative/numerical method to compute the minimum.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="revisiting-our-logistic-regression-case">
<h2>Revisiting our Logistic Regression case<a class="headerlink" href="#revisiting-our-logistic-regression-case" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In our discussion on Logistic Regression we studied the
case of
two classes, with <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(y_i\)</span> either
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(0\)</span> or <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(1\)</span>. Furthermore we assumed also that we have only two
parameters <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> in our fitting, that is we
defined probabilities</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[\begin{split}
\begin{align*}
p(y_i=1|x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta}) &amp;= \frac{\exp{(\beta_0+\beta_1x_i)}}{1+\exp{(\beta_0+\beta_1x_i)}},\nonumber\\
p(y_i=0|x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta}) &amp;= 1 - p(y_i=1|x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta}),
\end{align*}
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{\beta}\)</span> are the weights we wish to extract from data, in our case <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta_0\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta_1\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-equations-to-solve">
<h2>The equations to solve<a class="headerlink" href="#the-equations-to-solve" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Our compact equations used a definition of a vector <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{y}\)</span> with <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\)</span>
elements <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(y_i\)</span>, an <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\times p\)</span> matrix <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{X}\)</span> which contains the
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x_i\)</span> values and a vector <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{p}\)</span> of fitted probabilities
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(p(y_i\vert x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta})\)</span>. We rewrote in a more compact form
the first derivative of the cost function as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\frac{\partial \mathcal{C}(\boldsymbol{\beta})}{\partial \boldsymbol{\beta}} = -\boldsymbol{X}^T\left(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{p}\right).
\]</div>
<p>If we in addition define a diagonal matrix <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{W}\)</span> with elements
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(p(y_i\vert x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta})(1-p(y_i\vert x_i,\boldsymbol{\beta})\)</span>, we can obtain a compact expression of the second derivative as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\frac{\partial^2 \mathcal{C}(\boldsymbol{\beta})}{\partial \boldsymbol{\beta}\partial \boldsymbol{\beta}^T} = \boldsymbol{X}^T\boldsymbol{W}\boldsymbol{X}.
\]</div>
<p>This defines what is called the Hessian matrix.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="solving-using-newton-raphson-s-method">
<h2>Solving using Newton-Raphsons method<a class="headerlink" href="#solving-using-newton-raphson-s-method" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>If we can set up these equations, Newton-Raphsons iterative method is normally the method of choice. It requires however that we can compute in an efficient way the matrices that define the first and second derivatives.</p>
<p>Our iterative scheme is then given by</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{\beta}^{\mathrm{new}} = \boldsymbol{\beta}^{\mathrm{old}}-\left(\frac{\partial^2 \mathcal{C}(\boldsymbol{\beta})}{\partial \boldsymbol{\beta}\partial \boldsymbol{\beta}^T}\right)^{-1}_{\boldsymbol{\beta}^{\mathrm{old}}}\times \left(\frac{\partial \mathcal{C}(\boldsymbol{\beta})}{\partial \boldsymbol{\beta}}\right)_{\boldsymbol{\beta}^{\mathrm{old}}},
\]</div>
<p>or in matrix form as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{\beta}^{\mathrm{new}} = \boldsymbol{\beta}^{\mathrm{old}}-\left(\boldsymbol{X}^T\boldsymbol{W}\boldsymbol{X} \right)^{-1}\times \left(-\boldsymbol{X}^T(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{p}) \right)_{\boldsymbol{\beta}^{\mathrm{old}}}.
\]</div>
<p>The right-hand side is computed with the old values of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span>.</p>
<p>If we can compute these matrices, in particular the Hessian, the above is often the easiest method to implement.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="brief-reminder-on-newton-raphson-s-method">
<h2>Brief reminder on Newton-Raphsons method<a class="headerlink" href="#brief-reminder-on-newton-raphson-s-method" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Let us quickly remind ourselves how we derive the above method.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most celebrated of all one-dimensional root-finding
routines is Newtons method, also called the Newton-Raphson
method. This method requires the evaluation of both the
function <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> and its derivative <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f'\)</span> at arbitrary points.
If you can only calculate the derivative
numerically and/or your function is not of the smooth type, we
normally discourage the use of this method.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-equations">
<h2>The equations<a class="headerlink" href="#the-equations" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The Newton-Raphson formula consists geometrically of extending the
tangent line at a current point until it crosses zero, then setting
the next guess to the abscissa of that zero-crossing. The mathematics
behind this method is rather simple. Employing a Taylor expansion for
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x\)</span> sufficiently close to the solution <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(s\)</span>, we have</p>
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<div id="eq:taylornr"></div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
f(s)=0=f(x)+(s-x)f'(x)+\frac{(s-x)^2}{2}f''(x) +\dots.
\label{eq:taylornr} \tag{1}
\]</div>
<p>For small enough values of the function and for well-behaved
functions, the terms beyond linear are unimportant, hence we obtain</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
f(x)+(s-x)f'(x)\approx 0,
\]</div>
<p>yielding</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
s\approx x-\frac{f(x)}{f'(x)}.
\]</div>
<p>Having in mind an iterative procedure, it is natural to start iterating with</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
x_{n+1}=x_n-\frac{f(x_n)}{f'(x_n)}.
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="simple-geometric-interpretation">
<h2>Simple geometric interpretation<a class="headerlink" href="#simple-geometric-interpretation" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The above is Newton-Raphsons method. It has a simple geometric
interpretation, namely <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x_{n+1}\)</span> is the point where the tangent from
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((x_n,f(x_n))\)</span> crosses the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x\)</span>-axis. Close to the solution,
Newton-Raphson converges fast to the desired result. However, if we
are far from a root, where the higher-order terms in the series are
important, the Newton-Raphson formula can give grossly inaccurate
results. For instance, the initial guess for the root might be so far
from the true root as to let the search interval include a local
maximum or minimum of the function. If an iteration places a trial
guess near such a local extremum, so that the first derivative nearly
vanishes, then Newton-Raphson may fail totally</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="extending-to-more-than-one-variable">
<h2>Extending to more than one variable<a class="headerlink" href="#extending-to-more-than-one-variable" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Newtons method can be generalized to systems of several non-linear equations
and variables. Consider the case with two equations</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[\begin{split}
\begin{array}{cc} f_1(x_1,x_2) &amp;=0\\
f_2(x_1,x_2) &amp;=0,\end{array}
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>which we Taylor expand to obtain</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[\begin{split}
\begin{array}{cc} 0=f_1(x_1+h_1,x_2+h_2)=&amp;f_1(x_1,x_2)+h_1
\partial f_1/\partial x_1+h_2
\partial f_1/\partial x_2+\dots\\
0=f_2(x_1+h_1,x_2+h_2)=&amp;f_2(x_1,x_2)+h_1
\partial f_2/\partial x_1+h_2
\partial f_2/\partial x_2+\dots
\end{array}.
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>Defining the Jacobian matrix <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\({\bf \boldsymbol{J}}\)</span> we have</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[\begin{split}
{\bf \boldsymbol{J}}=\left( \begin{array}{cc}
\partial f_1/\partial x_1 &amp; \partial f_1/\partial x_2 \\
\partial f_2/\partial x_1 &amp;\partial f_2/\partial x_2
\end{array} \right),
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>we can rephrase Newtons method as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[\begin{split}
\left(\begin{array}{c} x_1^{n+1} \\ x_2^{n+1} \end{array} \right)=
\left(\begin{array}{c} x_1^{n} \\ x_2^{n} \end{array} \right)+
\left(\begin{array}{c} h_1^{n} \\ h_2^{n} \end{array} \right),
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>where we have defined</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[\begin{split}
\left(\begin{array}{c} h_1^{n} \\ h_2^{n} \end{array} \right)=
-{\bf \boldsymbol{J}}^{-1}
\left(\begin{array}{c} f_1(x_1^{n},x_2^{n}) \\ f_2(x_1^{n},x_2^{n}) \end{array} \right).
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>We need thus to compute the inverse of the Jacobian matrix and it
is to understand that difficulties may
arise in case <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\({\bf \boldsymbol{J}}\)</span> is nearly singular.</p>
<p>It is rather straightforward to extend the above scheme to systems of
more than two non-linear equations. In our case, the Jacobian matrix is given by the Hessian that represents the second derivative of cost function.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="steepest-descent">
<h2>Steepest descent<a class="headerlink" href="#steepest-descent" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The basic idea of gradient descent is
that a function <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(F(\mathbf{x})\)</span>,
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{x} \equiv (x_1,\cdots,x_n)\)</span>, decreases fastest if one goes from <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\bf {x}\)</span> in the
direction of the negative gradient <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(-\nabla F(\mathbf{x})\)</span>.</p>
<p>It can be shown that if</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathbf{x}_{k+1} = \mathbf{x}_k - \gamma_k \nabla F(\mathbf{x}_k),
\]</div>
<p>with <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma_k &gt; 0\)</span>.</p>
<p>For <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma_k\)</span> small enough, then <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(F(\mathbf{x}_{k+1}) \leq
F(\mathbf{x}_k)\)</span>. This means that for a sufficiently small <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma_k\)</span>
we are always moving towards smaller function values, i.e a minimum.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="more-on-steepest-descent">
<h2>More on Steepest descent<a class="headerlink" href="#more-on-steepest-descent" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The previous observation is the basis of the method of steepest
descent, which is also referred to as just gradient descent (GD). One
starts with an initial guess <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{x}_0\)</span> for a minimum of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(F\)</span> and
computes new approximations according to</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathbf{x}_{k+1} = \mathbf{x}_k - \gamma_k \nabla F(\mathbf{x}_k), \ \ k \geq 0.
\]</div>
<p>The parameter <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma_k\)</span> is often referred to as the step length or
the learning rate within the context of Machine Learning.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-ideal">
<h2>The ideal<a class="headerlink" href="#the-ideal" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Ideally the sequence <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\{\mathbf{x}_k \}_{k=0}\)</span> converges to a global
minimum of the function <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(F\)</span>. In general we do not know if we are in a
global or local minimum. In the special case when <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(F\)</span> is a convex
function, all local minima are also global minima, so in this case
gradient descent can converge to the global solution. The advantage of
this scheme is that it is conceptually simple and straightforward to
implement. However the method in this form has some severe
limitations:</p>
<p>In machine learing we are often faced with non-convex high dimensional
cost functions with many local minima. Since GD is deterministic we
will get stuck in a local minimum, if the method converges, unless we
have a very good intial guess. This also implies that the scheme is
sensitive to the chosen initial condition.</p>
<p>Note that the gradient is a function of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{x} =
(x_1,\cdots,x_n)\)</span> which makes it expensive to compute numerically.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-sensitiveness-of-the-gradient-descent">
<h2>The sensitiveness of the gradient descent<a class="headerlink" href="#the-sensitiveness-of-the-gradient-descent" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The gradient descent method
is sensitive to the choice of learning rate <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma_k\)</span>. This is due
to the fact that we are only guaranteed that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(F(\mathbf{x}_{k+1}) \leq
F(\mathbf{x}_k)\)</span> for sufficiently small <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma_k\)</span>. The problem is to
determine an optimal learning rate. If the learning rate is chosen too
small the method will take a long time to converge and if it is too
large we can experience erratic behavior.</p>
<p>Many of these shortcomings can be alleviated by introducing
randomness. One such method is that of Stochastic Gradient Descent
(SGD), see below.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="convex-functions">
<h2>Convex functions<a class="headerlink" href="#convex-functions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Ideally we want our cost/loss function to be convex(concave).</p>
<p>First we give the definition of a convex set: A set <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C\)</span> in
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbb{R}^n\)</span> is said to be convex if, for all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(y\)</span> in <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C\)</span> and
all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(t \in (0,1)\)</span> , the point <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((1 t)x + ty\)</span> also belongs to
C. Geometrically this means that every point on the line segment
connecting <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(y\)</span> is in <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C\)</span> as discussed below.</p>
<p>The convex subsets of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbb{R}\)</span> are the intervals of
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbb{R}\)</span>. Examples of convex sets of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbb{R}^2\)</span> are the
regular polygons (triangles, rectangles, pentagons, etc…).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="convex-function">
<h2>Convex function<a class="headerlink" href="#convex-function" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><strong>Convex function</strong>: Let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(X \subset \mathbb{R}^n\)</span> be a convex
set. Assume that the function <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f: X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\)</span> is
continuous, then <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is said to be convex if <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(tx_1 + (1-t)x_2) \leq tf(x_1) + (1-t)f(x_2)\)</span>
for all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x_1, x_2 \in X\)</span> and for all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(t \in [0,1]\)</span>.
If <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\leq\)</span> is replaced with a strict inequaltiy in the
definition, we demand <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x_1 \neq x_2\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(t\in(0,1)\)</span> then <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is said
to be strictly convex. For a single variable function, convexity means
that if you draw a straight line connecting <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x_1)\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x_2)\)</span>, the
value of the function on the interval <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\([x_1,x_2]\)</span> is always below the
line as illustrated below.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="conditions-on-convex-functions">
<h2>Conditions on convex functions<a class="headerlink" href="#conditions-on-convex-functions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In the following we state first and second-order conditions which
ensures convexity of a function <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span>. We write <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(D_f\)</span> to denote the
domain of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span>, i.e the subset of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R^n\)</span> where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is defined. For more
details and proofs we refer to: <a class="reference external" href="http://stanford.edu/boyd/cvxbook/">S. Boyd and L. Vandenberghe. Convex Optimization. Cambridge University Press</a>.</p>
<p><strong>First order condition.</strong></p>
<p>Suppose <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is differentiable (i.e <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\nabla f(x)\)</span> is well defined for
all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x\)</span> in the domain of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span>). Then <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is convex if and only if <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(D_f\)</span>
is a convex set and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(y) \geq f(x) + \nabla f(x)^T (y-x)\)</span> holds
for all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x,y \in D_f\)</span>.</p>
<p>This condition means that for a convex function
the first order Taylor expansion (right hand side above) at any point
a global under estimator of the function. To convince yourself you can
make a drawing of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x) = x^2+1\)</span> and draw the tangent line to <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x)\)</span> and
note that it is always below the graph.</p>
<p><strong>Second order condition.</strong></p>
<p>Assume that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is twice
differentiable, i.e the Hessian matrix exists at each point in
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(D_f\)</span>. Then <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is convex if and only if <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(D_f\)</span> is a convex set and its
Hessian is positive semi-definite for all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x\in D_f\)</span>. For a
single-variable function this reduces to <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f''(x) \geq 0\)</span>. Geometrically this means that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> has nonnegative curvature
everywhere.</p>
<p>This condition is particularly useful since it gives us an procedure for determining if the function under consideration is convex, apart from using the definition.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="more-on-convex-functions">
<h2>More on convex functions<a class="headerlink" href="#more-on-convex-functions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The next result is of great importance to us and the reason why we are
going on about convex functions. In machine learning we frequently
have to minimize a loss/cost function in order to find the best
parameters for the model we are considering.</p>
<p>Ideally we want the
global minimum (for high-dimensional models it is hard to know
if we have local or global minimum). However, if the cost/loss function
is convex the following result provides invaluable information:</p>
<p><strong>Any minimum is global for convex functions.</strong></p>
<p>Consider the problem of finding <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x \in \mathbb{R}^n\)</span> such that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x)\)</span>
is minimal, where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is convex and differentiable. Then, any point
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x^*\)</span> that satisfies <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\nabla f(x^*) = 0\)</span> is a global minimum.</p>
<p>This result means that if we know that the cost/loss function is convex and we are able to find a minimum, we are guaranteed that it is a global minimum.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="some-simple-problems">
<h2>Some simple problems<a class="headerlink" href="#some-simple-problems" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>Show that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x)=x^2\)</span> is convex for <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x \in \mathbb{R}\)</span> using the definition of convexity. Hint: If you re-write the definition, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> is convex if the following holds for all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x,y \in D_f\)</span> and any <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\lambda \in [0,1]\)</span> <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\lambda f(x)+(1-\lambda)f(y)-f(\lambda x + (1-\lambda) y ) \geq 0\)</span>.</p></li>
<li><p>Using the second order condition show that the following functions are convex on the specified domain.</p></li>
</ol>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x) = e^x\)</span> is convex for <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x \in \mathbb{R}\)</span>.</p></li>
<li><p><span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(g(x) = -\ln(x)\)</span> is convex for <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x \in (0,\infty)\)</span>.</p></li>
</ul>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>Let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x) = x^2\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(g(x) = e^x\)</span>. Show that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(g(x))\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(g(f(x))\)</span> is convex for <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x \in \mathbb{R}\)</span>. Also show that if <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x)\)</span> is any convex function than <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(h(x) = e^{f(x)}\)</span> is convex.</p></li>
<li><p>A norm is any function that satisfy the following properties</p></li>
</ol>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(\alpha x) = |\alpha| f(x)\)</span> for all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha \in \mathbb{R}\)</span>.</p></li>
<li><p><span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x+y) \leq f(x) + f(y)\)</span></p></li>
<li><p><span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x) \leq 0\)</span> for all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x \in \mathbb{R}^n\)</span> with equality if and only if <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x = 0\)</span></p></li>
</ul>
<p>Using the definition of convexity, try to show that a function satisfying the properties above is convex (the third condition is not needed to show this).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="standard-steepest-descent">
<h2>Standard steepest descent<a class="headerlink" href="#standard-steepest-descent" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Before we proceed, we would like to discuss the approach called the
<strong>standard Steepest descent</strong> (different from the above steepest descent discussion), which again leads to us having to be able
to compute a matrix. It belongs to the class of Conjugate Gradient methods (CG).</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake-papers/painless-conjugate-gradient.pdf">The success of the CG method</a>
for finding solutions of non-linear problems is based on the theory
of conjugate gradients for linear systems of equations. It belongs to
the class of iterative methods for solving problems from linear
algebra of the type</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x} = \boldsymbol{b}.
\]</div>
<p>In the iterative process we end up with a problem like</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{r}= \boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x},
\]</div>
<p>where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{r}\)</span> is the so-called residual or error in the iterative process.</p>
<p>When we have found the exact solution, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{r}=0\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="gradient-method">
<h2>Gradient method<a class="headerlink" href="#gradient-method" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The residual is zero when we reach the minimum of the quadratic equation</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
P(\boldsymbol{x})=\frac{1}{2}\boldsymbol{x}^T\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x} - \boldsymbol{x}^T\boldsymbol{b},
\]</div>
<p>with the constraint that the matrix <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{A}\)</span> is positive definite and
symmetric. This defines also the Hessian and we want it to be positive definite.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="steepest-descent-method">
<h2>Steepest descent method<a class="headerlink" href="#steepest-descent-method" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We denote the initial guess for <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}\)</span> as <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}_0\)</span>.
We can assume without loss of generality that</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{x}_0=0,
\]</div>
<p>or consider the system</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{z} = \boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_0,
\]</div>
<p>instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id1">
<h2>Steepest descent method<a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>One can show that the solution <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}\)</span> is also the unique minimizer of the quadratic form</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
f(\boldsymbol{x}) = \frac{1}{2}\boldsymbol{x}^T\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x} - \boldsymbol{x}^T \boldsymbol{x} , \quad \boldsymbol{x}\in\mathbf{R}^n.
\]</div>
<p>This suggests taking the first basis vector <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{r}_1\)</span> (see below for definition)
to be the gradient of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> at <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}=\boldsymbol{x}_0\)</span>,
which equals</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_0-\boldsymbol{b},
\]</div>
<p>and
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}_0=0\)</span> it is equal <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(-\boldsymbol{b}\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="final-expressions">
<h2>Final expressions<a class="headerlink" href="#final-expressions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We can compute the residual iteratively as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{r}_{k+1}=\boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_{k+1},
\]</div>
<p>which equals</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}(\boldsymbol{x}_k+\alpha_k\boldsymbol{r}_k),
\]</div>
<p>or</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
(\boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_k)-\alpha_k\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{r}_k,
\]</div>
<p>which gives</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\alpha_k = \frac{\boldsymbol{r}_k^T\boldsymbol{r}_k}{\boldsymbol{r}_k^T\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{r}_k}
\]</div>
<p>leading to the iterative scheme</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{x}_{k+1}=\boldsymbol{x}_k+\alpha_k\boldsymbol{r}_{k},
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="steepest-descent-example">
<h2>Steepest descent example<a class="headerlink" href="#steepest-descent-example" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy.linalg</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">la</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">scipy.optimize</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">sopt</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">pt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">mpl_toolkits.mplot3d</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">axes3d</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mf">3.0</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">df</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="mi">6</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="n">fig</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">figure</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">ax</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">fig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">gca</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">projection</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;3d&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xmesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ymesh</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mgrid</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="n">j</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="n">j</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">fmesh</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="n">xmesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ymesh</span><span class="p">]))</span>
<span class="n">ax</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot_surface</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xmesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ymesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fmesh</span><span class="p">)</span>
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ax = fig.gca(projection=&quot;3d&quot;)
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<p>And then as countor plot</p>
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<span class="n">pt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">contour</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xmesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ymesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fmesh</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">guesses</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">2.</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">])]</span>
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<p>Find guesses</p>
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<span class="n">s</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">df</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Run it!</p>
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<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">alpha</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">alpha_opt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">sopt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">golden</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f1d</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">next_guess</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">alpha_opt</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">s</span>
<span class="n">guesses</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">next_guess</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">next_guess</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>What happened?</p>
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<span class="n">pt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">contour</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xmesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ymesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fmesh</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">it_array</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">guesses</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">pt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">it_array</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">it_array</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="s2">&quot;x-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Note that we did only one iteration here. We can easily add more using our previous guesses.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="conjugate-gradient-method">
<h2>Conjugate gradient method<a class="headerlink" href="#conjugate-gradient-method" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In the CG method we define so-called conjugate directions and two vectors
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{s}\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{t}\)</span>
are said to be
conjugate if</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{s}^T\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{t}= 0.
\]</div>
<p>The philosophy of the CG method is to perform searches in various conjugate directions
of our vectors <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}_i\)</span> obeying the above criterion, namely</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{x}_i^T\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_j= 0.
\]</div>
<p>Two vectors are conjugate if they are orthogonal with respect to
this inner product. Being conjugate is a symmetric relation: if <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{s}\)</span> is conjugate to <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{t}\)</span>, then <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{t}\)</span> is conjugate to <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{s}\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id2">
<h2>Conjugate gradient method<a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>An example is given by the eigenvectors of the matrix</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{v}_i^T\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{v}_j= \lambda\boldsymbol{v}_i^T\boldsymbol{v}_j,
\]</div>
<p>which is zero unless <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(i=j\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id3">
<h2>Conjugate gradient method<a class="headerlink" href="#id3" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Assume now that we have a symmetric positive-definite matrix <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{A}\)</span> of size
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\times n\)</span>. At each iteration <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(i+1\)</span> we obtain the conjugate direction of a vector</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{x}_{i+1}=\boldsymbol{x}_{i}+\alpha_i\boldsymbol{p}_{i}.
\]</div>
<p>We assume that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{p}_{i}\)</span> is a sequence of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\)</span> mutually conjugate directions.
Then the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{p}_{i}\)</span> form a basis of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(R^n\)</span> and we can expand the solution
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\( \boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x} = \boldsymbol{b}\)</span> in this basis, namely</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{x} = \sum^{n}_{i=1} \alpha_i \boldsymbol{p}_i.
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id4">
<h2>Conjugate gradient method<a class="headerlink" href="#id4" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The coefficients are given by</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x} = \sum^{n}_{i=1} \alpha_i \mathbf{A} \mathbf{p}_i = \mathbf{b}.
\]</div>
<p>Multiplying with <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{p}_k^T\)</span> from the left gives</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{p}_k^T \boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x} = \sum^{n}_{i=1} \alpha_i\boldsymbol{p}_k^T \boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{p}_i= \boldsymbol{p}_k^T \boldsymbol{b},
\]</div>
<p>and we can define the coefficients <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\alpha_k\)</span> as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\alpha_k = \frac{\boldsymbol{p}_k^T \boldsymbol{b}}{\boldsymbol{p}_k^T \boldsymbol{A} \boldsymbol{p}_k}
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="conjugate-gradient-method-and-iterations">
<h2>Conjugate gradient method and iterations<a class="headerlink" href="#conjugate-gradient-method-and-iterations" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>If we choose the conjugate vectors <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{p}_k\)</span> carefully,
then we may not need all of them to obtain a good approximation to the solution
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}\)</span>.
We want to regard the conjugate gradient method as an iterative method.
This will us to solve systems where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\)</span> is so large that the direct
method would take too much time.</p>
<p>We denote the initial guess for <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}\)</span> as <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}_0\)</span>.
We can assume without loss of generality that</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{x}_0=0,
\]</div>
<p>or consider the system</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{z} = \boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_0,
\]</div>
<p>instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id5">
<h2>Conjugate gradient method<a class="headerlink" href="#id5" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>One can show that the solution <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}\)</span> is also the unique minimizer of the quadratic form</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
f(\boldsymbol{x}) = \frac{1}{2}\boldsymbol{x}^T\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x} - \boldsymbol{x}^T \boldsymbol{x} , \quad \boldsymbol{x}\in\mathbf{R}^n.
\]</div>
<p>This suggests taking the first basis vector <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{p}_1\)</span>
to be the gradient of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> at <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}=\boldsymbol{x}_0\)</span>,
which equals</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_0-\boldsymbol{b},
\]</div>
<p>and
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}_0=0\)</span> it is equal <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(-\boldsymbol{b}\)</span>.
The other vectors in the basis will be conjugate to the gradient,
hence the name conjugate gradient method.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id6">
<h2>Conjugate gradient method<a class="headerlink" href="#id6" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{r}_k\)</span> be the residual at the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k\)</span>-th step:</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{r}_k=\boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_k.
\]</div>
<p>Note that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{r}_k\)</span> is the negative gradient of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f\)</span> at
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{x}=\boldsymbol{x}_k\)</span>,
so the gradient descent method would be to move in the direction <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{r}_k\)</span>.
Here, we insist that the directions <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{p}_k\)</span> are conjugate to each other,
so we take the direction closest to the gradient <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{r}_k\)</span><br />
under the conjugacy constraint.
This gives the following expression</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{p}_{k+1}=\boldsymbol{r}_k-\frac{\boldsymbol{p}_k^T \boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{r}_k}{\boldsymbol{p}_k^T\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{p}_k} \boldsymbol{p}_k.
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id7">
<h2>Conjugate gradient method<a class="headerlink" href="#id7" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We can also compute the residual iteratively as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{r}_{k+1}=\boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_{k+1},
\]</div>
<p>which equals</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}(\boldsymbol{x}_k+\alpha_k\boldsymbol{p}_k),
\]</div>
<p>or</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
(\boldsymbol{b}-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}_k)-\alpha_k\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{p}_k,
\]</div>
<p>which gives</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{r}_{k+1}=\boldsymbol{r}_k-\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{p}_{k},
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="revisiting-our-first-homework">
<h2>Revisiting our first homework<a class="headerlink" href="#revisiting-our-first-homework" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We will use linear regression as a case study for the gradient descent
methods. Linear regression is a great test case for the gradient
descent methods discussed in the lectures since it has several
desirable properties such as:</p>
<ol class="simple">
<li><p>An analytical solution (recall homework set 1).</p></li>
<li><p>The gradient can be computed analytically.</p></li>
<li><p>The cost function is convex which guarantees that gradient descent converges for small enough learning rates</p></li>
</ol>
<p>We revisit an example similar to what we had in the first homework set. We had a function of the type</p>
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<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="ne">----&gt; </span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="g g-Whitespace"> </span><span class="mi">2</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>with <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(x_i \in [0,1] \)</span> is chosen randomly using a uniform distribution. Additionally we have a stochastic noise chosen according to a normal distribution <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\cal {N}(0,1)\)</span>.
The linear regression model is given by</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
h_\beta(x) = \boldsymbol{y} = \beta_0 + \beta_1 x,
\]</div>
<p>such that</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{y}_i = \beta_0 + \beta_1 x_i.
\]</div>
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<div class="section" id="gradient-descent-example">
<h2>Gradient descent example<a class="headerlink" href="#gradient-descent-example" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{y} = (y_1,\cdots,y_n)^T\)</span>, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{\boldsymbol{y}} = (\boldsymbol{y}_1,\cdots,\boldsymbol{y}_n)^T\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta = (\beta_0, \beta_1)^T\)</span></p>
<p>It is convenient to write <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{\boldsymbol{y}} = X\beta\)</span> where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(X \in \mathbb{R}^{100 \times 2} \)</span> is the design matrix given by (we keep the intercept here)</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[\begin{split}
X \equiv \begin{bmatrix}
1 &amp; x_1 \\
\vdots &amp; \vdots \\
1 &amp; x_{100} &amp; \\
\end{bmatrix}.
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>The cost/loss/risk function is given by (</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
C(\beta) = \frac{1}{n}||X\beta-\mathbf{y}||_{2}^{2} = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{100}\left[ (\beta_0 + \beta_1 x_i)^2 - 2 y_i (\beta_0 + \beta_1 x_i) + y_i^2\right]
\]</div>
<p>and we want to find <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> such that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C(\beta)\)</span> is minimized.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-derivative-of-the-cost-loss-function">
<h2>The derivative of the cost/loss function<a class="headerlink" href="#the-derivative-of-the-cost-loss-function" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Computing <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\partial C(\beta) / \partial \beta_0\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\partial C(\beta) / \partial \beta_1\)</span> we can show that the gradient can be written as</p>
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\[\begin{split}
\nabla_{\beta} C(\beta) = \frac{2}{n}\begin{bmatrix} \sum_{i=1}^{100} \left(\beta_0+\beta_1x_i-y_i\right) \\
\sum_{i=1}^{100}\left( x_i (\beta_0+\beta_1x_i)-y_ix_i\right) \\
\end{bmatrix} = \frac{2}{n}X^T(X\beta - \mathbf{y}),
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(X\)</span> is the design matrix defined above.</p>
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<div class="section" id="the-hessian-matrix">
<h2>The Hessian matrix<a class="headerlink" href="#the-hessian-matrix" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The Hessian matrix of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C(\beta)\)</span> is given by</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[\begin{split}
\boldsymbol{H} \equiv \begin{bmatrix}
\frac{\partial^2 C(\beta)}{\partial \beta_0^2} &amp; \frac{\partial^2 C(\beta)}{\partial \beta_0 \partial \beta_1} \\
\frac{\partial^2 C(\beta)}{\partial \beta_0 \partial \beta_1} &amp; \frac{\partial^2 C(\beta)}{\partial \beta_1^2} &amp; \\
\end{bmatrix} = \frac{2}{n}X^T X.
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>This result implies that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C(\beta)\)</span> is a convex function since the matrix <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(X^T X\)</span> always is positive semi-definite.</p>
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<div class="section" id="simple-program">
<h2>Simple program<a class="headerlink" href="#simple-program" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We can now write a program that minimizes <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C(\beta)\)</span> using the gradient descent method with a constant learning rate <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma\)</span> according to</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\beta_{k+1} = \beta_k - \gamma \nabla_\beta C(\beta_k), \ k=0,1,\cdots
\]</div>
<p>We can use the expression we computed for the gradient and let use a
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta_0\)</span> be chosen randomly and let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma = 0.001\)</span>. Stop iterating
when <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(||\nabla_\beta C(\beta_k) || \leq \epsilon = 10^{-8}\)</span>. <strong>Note that the code below does not include the latter stop criterion</strong>.</p>
<p>And finally we can compare our solution for <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> with the analytic result given by
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta= (X^TX)^{-1} X^T \mathbf{y}\)</span>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="id8">
<h2>Gradient Descent Example<a class="headerlink" href="#id8" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Here our simple example</p>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">mpl_toolkits.mplot3d</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Axes3D</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">cm</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.ticker</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">LinearLocator</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">FormatStrFormatter</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sys</span>
<span class="c1"># the number of datapoints</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="c1"># Hessian matrix</span>
<span class="n">H</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="c1"># Get the eigenvalues</span>
<span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">EigVectors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Eigenvalues of Hessian Matrix:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">beta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">inv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">beta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">max</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Niterations</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1000</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">beta</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">beta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradient</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xnew</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="n">xbnew</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">ypredict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">xbnew</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">ypredict2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">xbnew</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;r-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;b-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;ro&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">15.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$x$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$y$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;Gradient descent example&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<div class="section" id="and-a-corresponding-example-using-scikit-learn">
<h2>And a corresponding example using <strong>scikit-learn</strong><a class="headerlink" href="#and-a-corresponding-example-using-scikit-learn" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.linear_model</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">SGDRegressor</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">beta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">inv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">sgdreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">SGDRegressor</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">max_iter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">penalty</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">eta0</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">sgdreg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ravel</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sgdreg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">intercept_</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">sgdreg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">coef_</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="section" id="gradient-descent-and-ridge">
<h2>Gradient descent and Ridge<a class="headerlink" href="#gradient-descent-and-ridge" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We have also discussed Ridge regression where the loss function contains a regularized term given by the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(L_2\)</span> norm of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span>,</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
C_{\text{ridge}}(\beta) = \frac{1}{n}||X\beta -\mathbf{y}||^2 + \lambda ||\beta||^2, \ \lambda \geq 0.
\]</div>
<p>In order to minimize <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C_{\text{ridge}}(\beta)\)</span> using GD we adjust the gradient as follows</p>
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\[\begin{split}
\nabla_\beta C_{\text{ridge}}(\beta) = \frac{2}{n}\begin{bmatrix} \sum_{i=1}^{100} \left(\beta_0+\beta_1x_i-y_i\right) \\
\sum_{i=1}^{100}\left( x_i (\beta_0+\beta_1x_i)-y_ix_i\right) \\
\end{bmatrix} + 2\lambda\begin{bmatrix} \beta_0 \\ \beta_1\end{bmatrix} = 2 (\frac{1}{n}X^T(X\beta - \mathbf{y})+\lambda \beta).
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>We can easily extend our program to minimize <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(C_{\text{ridge}}(\beta)\)</span> using gradient descent and compare with the analytical solution given by</p>
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\[
\beta_{\text{ridge}} = \left(X^T X + n\lambda I_{2 \times 2} \right)^{-1} X^T \mathbf{y}.
\]</div>
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<div class="section" id="the-hessian-matrix-for-ridge-regression">
<h2>The Hessian matrix for Ridge Regression<a class="headerlink" href="#the-hessian-matrix-for-ridge-regression" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The Hessian matrix of Ridge Regression for our simple example is given by</p>
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\[\begin{split}
\boldsymbol{H} \equiv \begin{bmatrix}
\frac{\partial^2 C(\beta)}{\partial \beta_0^2} &amp; \frac{\partial^2 C(\beta)}{\partial \beta_0 \partial \beta_1} \\
\frac{\partial^2 C(\beta)}{\partial \beta_0 \partial \beta_1} &amp; \frac{\partial^2 C(\beta)}{\partial \beta_1^2} &amp; \\
\end{bmatrix} = \frac{2}{n}X^T X+2\lambda\boldsymbol{I}.
\end{split}\]</div>
<p>This implies that the Hessian matrix is positive definite, hence the stationary point is a
minimum.
Note that the Ridge cost function is convex being a sum of two convex
functions. Therefore, the stationary point is a global
minimum of this function.</p>
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<div class="section" id="program-example-for-gradient-descent-with-ridge-regression">
<h2>Program example for gradient descent with Ridge Regression<a class="headerlink" href="#program-example-for-gradient-descent-with-ridge-regression" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">mpl_toolkits.mplot3d</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Axes3D</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">cm</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.ticker</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">LinearLocator</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">FormatStrFormatter</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sys</span>
<span class="c1"># the number of datapoints</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="c1">#Ridge parameter lambda</span>
<span class="n">lmbda</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.001</span>
<span class="n">Id</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">lmbda</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eye</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="c1"># Hessian matrix</span>
<span class="n">H</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">lmbda</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eye</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="c1"># Get the eigenvalues</span>
<span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">EigVectors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Eigenvalues of Hessian Matrix:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">beta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">inv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">Id</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Start plain gradient descent</span>
<span class="n">beta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">max</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Niterations</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">lmbda</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">beta</span>
<span class="n">beta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">ypredict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">beta</span>
<span class="n">ypredict2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">beta_linreg</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;r-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;b-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;ro&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">15.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$x$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$y$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;Gradient descent example for Ridge&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<div class="section" id="using-gradient-descent-methods-limitations">
<h2>Using gradient descent methods, limitations<a class="headerlink" href="#using-gradient-descent-methods-limitations" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>Gradient descent (GD) finds local minima of our function</strong>. Since the GD algorithm is deterministic, if it converges, it will converge to a local minimum of our cost/loss/risk function. Because in ML we are often dealing with extremely rugged landscapes with many local minima, this can lead to poor performance.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>GD is sensitive to initial conditions</strong>. One consequence of the local nature of GD is that initial conditions matter. Depending on where one starts, one will end up at a different local minima. Therefore, it is very important to think about how one initializes the training process. This is true for GD as well as more complicated variants of GD.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Gradients are computationally expensive to calculate for large datasets</strong>. In many cases in statistics and ML, the cost/loss/risk function is a sum of terms, with one term for each data point. For example, in linear regression, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(E \propto \sum_{i=1}^n (y_i - \mathbf{w}^T\cdot\mathbf{x}_i)^2\)</span>; for logistic regression, the square error is replaced by the cross entropy. To calculate the gradient we have to sum over <em>all</em> <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\)</span> data points. Doing this at every GD step becomes extremely computationally expensive. An ingenious solution to this, is to calculate the gradients using small subsets of the data called “mini batches”. This has the added benefit of introducing stochasticity into our algorithm.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>GD is very sensitive to choices of learning rates</strong>. GD is extremely sensitive to the choice of learning rates. If the learning rate is very small, the training process take an extremely long time. For larger learning rates, GD can diverge and give poor results. Furthermore, depending on what the local landscape looks like, we have to modify the learning rates to ensure convergence. Ideally, we would <em>adaptively</em> choose the learning rates to match the landscape.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>GD treats all directions in parameter space uniformly.</strong> Another major drawback of GD is that unlike Newtons method, the learning rate for GD is the same in all directions in parameter space. For this reason, the maximum learning rate is set by the behavior of the steepest direction and this can significantly slow down training. Ideally, we would like to take large steps in flat directions and small steps in steep directions. Since we are exploring rugged landscapes where curvatures change, this requires us to keep track of not only the gradient but second derivatives. The ideal scenario would be to calculate the Hessian but this proves to be too computationally expensive.</p></li>
<li><p>GD can take exponential time to escape saddle points, even with random initialization. As we mentioned, GD is extremely sensitive to initial condition since it determines the particular local minimum GD would eventually reach. However, even with a good initialization scheme, through the introduction of randomness, GD can still take exponential time to escape saddle points.</p></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="improving-gradient-descent-with-momentum">
<h2>Improving gradient descent with momentum<a class="headerlink" href="#improving-gradient-descent-with-momentum" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We discuss here some simple examples where we introduce what is called memoryabout previous steps, or what is normally called momentum gradient descent. The mathematics is explained below in connection with Stochastic gradient descent.</p>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">arange</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">numpy.random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">rand</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">numpy.random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">pyplot</span>
<span class="c1"># objective function</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">objective</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mf">2.0</span>
<span class="c1"># derivative of objective function</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">derivative</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mf">2.0</span>
<span class="c1"># gradient descent algorithm</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">gradient_descent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">derivative</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n_iter</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">step_size</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># track all solutions</span>
<span class="n">solutions</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scores</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="c1"># generate an initial point</span>
<span class="n">solution</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="c1"># run the gradient descent</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_iter</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># calculate gradient</span>
<span class="n">gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">derivative</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solution</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># take a step</span>
<span class="n">solution</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">solution</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">step_size</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">gradient</span>
<span class="c1"># evaluate candidate point</span>
<span class="n">solution_eval</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solution</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># store solution</span>
<span class="n">solutions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solution</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">scores</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solution_eval</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># report progress</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;&gt;</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s1"> f(</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s1">) = </span><span class="si">%.5f</span><span class="s1">&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">solution</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">solution_eval</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">solutions</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scores</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="c1"># seed the pseudo random number generator</span>
<span class="n">seed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># define range for input</span>
<span class="n">bounds</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">asarray</span><span class="p">([[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="c1"># define the total iterations</span>
<span class="n">n_iter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">30</span>
<span class="c1"># define the step size</span>
<span class="n">step_size</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.1</span>
<span class="c1"># perform the gradient descent search</span>
<span class="n">solutions</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scores</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">gradient_descent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">derivative</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n_iter</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">step_size</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># sample input range uniformly at 0.1 increments</span>
<span class="n">inputs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">arange</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mf">0.1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># compute targets</span>
<span class="n">results</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">inputs</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># create a line plot of input vs result</span>
<span class="n">pyplot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">inputs</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">results</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># plot the solutions found</span>
<span class="n">pyplot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solutions</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scores</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;.-&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">color</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;red&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># show the plot</span>
<span class="n">pyplot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<div class="section" id="same-code-but-now-with-momentum-gradient-descent">
<h2>Same code but now with momentum gradient descent<a class="headerlink" href="#same-code-but-now-with-momentum-gradient-descent" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">arange</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">numpy.random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">rand</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">numpy.random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">pyplot</span>
<span class="c1"># objective function</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">objective</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mf">2.0</span>
<span class="c1"># derivative of objective function</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">derivative</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mf">2.0</span>
<span class="c1"># gradient descent algorithm</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">gradient_descent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">derivative</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n_iter</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">step_size</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">momentum</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># track all solutions</span>
<span class="n">solutions</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scores</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="c1"># generate an initial point</span>
<span class="n">solution</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[:,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="c1"># keep track of the change</span>
<span class="n">change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="c1"># run the gradient descent</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_iter</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># calculate gradient</span>
<span class="n">gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">derivative</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solution</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># calculate update</span>
<span class="n">new_change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">step_size</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">gradient</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">momentum</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">change</span>
<span class="c1"># take a step</span>
<span class="n">solution</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">solution</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">new_change</span>
<span class="c1"># save the change</span>
<span class="n">change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">new_change</span>
<span class="c1"># evaluate candidate point</span>
<span class="n">solution_eval</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solution</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># store solution</span>
<span class="n">solutions</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solution</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">scores</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solution_eval</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># report progress</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;&gt;</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s1"> f(</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s1">) = </span><span class="si">%.5f</span><span class="s1">&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">solution</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">solution_eval</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">solutions</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scores</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="c1"># seed the pseudo random number generator</span>
<span class="n">seed</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># define range for input</span>
<span class="n">bounds</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">asarray</span><span class="p">([[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="c1"># define the total iterations</span>
<span class="n">n_iter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">30</span>
<span class="c1"># define the step size</span>
<span class="n">step_size</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.1</span>
<span class="c1"># define momentum</span>
<span class="n">momentum</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.3</span>
<span class="c1"># perform the gradient descent search with momentum</span>
<span class="n">solutions</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scores</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">gradient_descent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">derivative</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n_iter</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">step_size</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">momentum</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># sample input range uniformly at 0.1 increments</span>
<span class="n">inputs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">arange</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">bounds</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mf">0.1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># compute targets</span>
<span class="n">results</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">inputs</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># create a line plot of input vs result</span>
<span class="n">pyplot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">inputs</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">results</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># plot the solutions found</span>
<span class="n">pyplot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">solutions</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">scores</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">&#39;.-&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">color</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;red&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># show the plot</span>
<span class="n">pyplot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="overview-video-on-stochastic-gradient-descent">
<h2>Overview video on Stochastic Gradient Descent<a class="headerlink" href="#overview-video-on-stochastic-gradient-descent" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMh0zPT0tLI&amp;ab_channel=StatQuestwithJoshStarmer">What is Stochastic Gradient Descent</a></p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="batches-and-mini-batches">
<h2>Batches and mini-batches<a class="headerlink" href="#batches-and-mini-batches" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In gradient descent we compute the cost function and its gradient for all data points we have.</p>
<p>In large-scale applications such as the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/">ILSVRC challenge</a>, the
training data can have on order of millions of examples. Hence, it
seems wasteful to compute the full cost function over the entire
training set in order to perform only a single parameter update. A
very common approach to addressing this challenge is to compute the
gradient over batches of the training data. For example, a typical batch could contain some thousand examples from
an entire training set of several millions. This batch is then used to
perform a parameter update.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="stochastic-gradient-descent-sgd">
<h2>Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD)<a class="headerlink" href="#stochastic-gradient-descent-sgd" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In stochastic gradient descent, the extreme case is the case where we
have only one batch, that is we include the whole data set.</p>
<p>This process is called Stochastic Gradient
Descent (SGD) (or also sometimes on-line gradient descent). This is
relatively less common to see because in practice due to vectorized
code optimizations it can be computationally much more efficient to
evaluate the gradient for 100 examples, than the gradient for one
example 100 times. Even though SGD technically refers to using a
single example at a time to evaluate the gradient, you will hear
people use the term SGD even when referring to mini-batch gradient
descent (i.e. mentions of MGD for “Minibatch Gradient Descent”, or BGD
for “Batch gradient descent” are rare to see), where it is usually
assumed that mini-batches are used. The size of the mini-batch is a
hyperparameter but it is not very common to cross-validate or bootstrap it. It is
usually based on memory constraints (if any), or set to some value,
e.g. 32, 64 or 128. We use powers of 2 in practice because many
vectorized operation implementations work faster when their inputs are
sized in powers of 2.</p>
<p>In our notes with SGD we mean stochastic gradient descent with mini-batches.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="stochastic-gradient-descent">
<h2>Stochastic Gradient Descent<a class="headerlink" href="#stochastic-gradient-descent" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and variants thereof address some of
the shortcomings of the Gradient descent method discussed above.</p>
<p>The underlying idea of SGD comes from the observation that the cost
function, which we want to minimize, can almost always be written as a
sum over <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\)</span> data points <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\{\mathbf{x}_i\}_{i=1}^n\)</span>,</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
C(\mathbf{\beta}) = \sum_{i=1}^n c_i(\mathbf{x}_i,
\mathbf{\beta}).
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="computation-of-gradients">
<h2>Computation of gradients<a class="headerlink" href="#computation-of-gradients" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>This in turn means that the gradient can be
computed as a sum over <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(i\)</span>-gradients</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\nabla_\beta C(\mathbf{\beta}) = \sum_i^n \nabla_\beta c_i(\mathbf{x}_i,
\mathbf{\beta}).
\]</div>
<p>Stochasticity/randomness is introduced by only taking the
gradient on a subset of the data called minibatches. If there are <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\)</span>
data points and the size of each minibatch is <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(M\)</span>, there will be <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n/M\)</span>
minibatches. We denote these minibatches by <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(B_k\)</span> where
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k=1,\cdots,n/M\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="sgd-example">
<h2>SGD example<a class="headerlink" href="#sgd-example" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>As an example, suppose we have <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(10\)</span> data points <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((\mathbf{x}_1,\cdots, \mathbf{x}_{10})\)</span>
and we choose to have <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(M=5\)</span> minibathces,
then each minibatch contains two data points. In particular we have
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(B_1 = (\mathbf{x}_1,\mathbf{x}_2), \cdots, B_5 =
(\mathbf{x}_9,\mathbf{x}_{10})\)</span>. Note that if you choose <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(M=1\)</span> you
have only a single batch with all data points and on the other extreme,
you may choose <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(M=n\)</span> resulting in a minibatch for each datapoint, i.e
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(B_k = \mathbf{x}_k\)</span>.</p>
<p>The idea is now to approximate the gradient by replacing the sum over
all data points with a sum over the data points in one the minibatches
picked at random in each gradient descent step</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\nabla_{\beta}
C(\mathbf{\beta}) = \sum_{i=1}^n \nabla_\beta c_i(\mathbf{x}_i,
\mathbf{\beta}) \rightarrow \sum_{i \in B_k}^n \nabla_\beta
c_i(\mathbf{x}_i, \mathbf{\beta}).
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="the-gradient-step">
<h2>The gradient step<a class="headerlink" href="#the-gradient-step" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Thus a gradient descent step now looks like</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\beta_{j+1} = \beta_j - \gamma_j \sum_{i \in B_k}^n \nabla_\beta c_i(\mathbf{x}_i,
\mathbf{\beta})
\]</div>
<p>where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k\)</span> is picked at random with equal
probability from <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\([1,n/M]\)</span>. An iteration over the number of
minibathces (n/M) is commonly referred to as an epoch. Thus it is
typical to choose a number of epochs and for each epoch iterate over
the number of minibatches, as exemplified in the code below.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="simple-example-code">
<h2>Simple example code<a class="headerlink" href="#simple-example-code" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span> <span class="c1">#100 datapoints </span>
<span class="n">M</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="c1">#size of each minibatch</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#number of minibatches</span>
<span class="n">n_epochs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">10</span> <span class="c1">#number of epochs</span>
<span class="n">j</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">epoch</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">k</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#Pick the k-th minibatch at random</span>
<span class="c1">#Compute the gradient using the data in minibatch Bk</span>
<span class="c1">#Compute new suggestion for </span>
<span class="n">j</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>Taking the gradient only on a subset of the data has two important
benefits. First, it introduces randomness which decreases the chance
that our opmization scheme gets stuck in a local minima. Second, if
the size of the minibatches are small relative to the number of
datapoints (<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(M &lt; n\)</span>), the computation of the gradient is much
cheaper since we sum over the datapoints in the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k-th\)</span> minibatch and not
all <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(n\)</span> datapoints.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="when-do-we-stop">
<h2>When do we stop?<a class="headerlink" href="#when-do-we-stop" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>A natural question is when do we stop the search for a new minimum?
One possibility is to compute the full gradient after a given number
of epochs and check if the norm of the gradient is smaller than some
threshold and stop if true. However, the condition that the gradient
is zero is valid also for local minima, so this would only tell us
that we are close to a local/global minimum. However, we could also
evaluate the cost function at this point, store the result and
continue the search. If the test kicks in at a later stage we can
compare the values of the cost function and keep the <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> that
gave the lowest value.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="slightly-different-approach">
<h2>Slightly different approach<a class="headerlink" href="#slightly-different-approach" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Another approach is to let the step length <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma_j\)</span> depend on the
number of epochs in such a way that it becomes very small after a
reasonable time such that we do not move at all. Such approaches are
also called scaling. There are many such ways to <a class="reference external" href="https://towardsdatascience.com/gradient-descent-the-learning-rate-and-the-importance-of-feature-scaling-6c0b416596e1">scale the learning
rate</a>
and <a class="reference external" href="https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume23/20-1258/20-1258.pdf">discussions here</a>. See
also
<a class="reference external" href="https://towardsdatascience.com/learning-rate-schedules-and-adaptive-learning-rate-methods-for-deep-learning-2c8f433990d1">https://towardsdatascience.com/learning-rate-schedules-and-adaptive-learning-rate-methods-for-deep-learning-2c8f433990d1</a>
for a discussion of different scaling functions for the learning rate.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="time-decay-rate">
<h2>Time decay rate<a class="headerlink" href="#time-decay-rate" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>As an example, let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(e = 0,1,2,3,\cdots\)</span> denote the current epoch and let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(t_0, t_1 &gt; 0\)</span> be two fixed numbers. Furthermore, let <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(t = e \cdot m + i\)</span> where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(m\)</span> is the number of minibatches and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(i=0,\cdots,m-1\)</span>. Then the function $<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma_j(t; t_0, t_1) = \frac{t_0}{t+t_1} \)</span><span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\( goes to zero as the number of epochs gets large. I.e. we start with a step length \)</span>\gamma_j (0; t_0, t_1) = t_0/t_1<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\( which decays in *time* \)</span>t$.</p>
<p>In this way we can fix the number of epochs, compute <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> and
evaluate the cost function at the end. Repeating the computation will
give a different result since the scheme is random by design. Then we
pick the final <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> that gives the lowest value of the cost
function.</p>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">step_length</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">t0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">t1</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">t0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">t1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span> <span class="c1">#100 datapoints </span>
<span class="n">M</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="c1">#size of each minibatch</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#number of minibatches</span>
<span class="n">n_epochs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">500</span> <span class="c1">#number of epochs</span>
<span class="n">t0</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span>
<span class="n">t1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">10</span>
<span class="n">gamma_j</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">t0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">t1</span>
<span class="n">j</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">epoch</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">k</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#Pick the k-th minibatch at random</span>
<span class="c1">#Compute the gradient using the data in minibatch Bk</span>
<span class="c1">#Compute new suggestion for beta</span>
<span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">epoch</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">i</span>
<span class="n">gamma_j</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">step_length</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">t0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">t1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">j</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;gamma_j after </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2"> epochs: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">gamma_j</span><span class="p">))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="code-with-a-number-of-minibatches-which-varies">
<h2>Code with a Number of Minibatches which varies<a class="headerlink" href="#code-with-a-number-of-minibatches-which-varies" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In the code here we vary the number of mini-batches.</p>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Importing various packages</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">math</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">exp</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">sqrt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">theta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">inv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Hessian matrix</span>
<span class="n">H</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">XT_X</span>
<span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">EigVectors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Eigenvalues of Hessian Matrix:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">max</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Niterations</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1000</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">((</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own gd&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xnew</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="n">Xnew</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">ypredict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Xnew</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">ypredict2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Xnew</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n_epochs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="n">M</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="c1">#size of each minibatch</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#number of minibatches</span>
<span class="n">t0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">learning_schedule</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">t0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">t1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">epoch</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># Can you figure out a better way of setting up the contributions to each batch?</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">random_index</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">M</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">yi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">xi</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">((</span><span class="n">xi</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">yi</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">learning_schedule</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">epoch</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own sdg&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;r-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;b-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;ro&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">15.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$x$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$y$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;Random numbers &#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="replace-or-not">
<h2>Replace or not<a class="headerlink" href="#replace-or-not" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In the above code, we have use replacement in setting up the
mini-batches. The discussion
<a class="reference external" href="https://sebastianraschka.com/faq/docs/sgd-methods.html">here</a> may be
useful.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="momentum-based-gd">
<h2>Momentum based GD<a class="headerlink" href="#momentum-based-gd" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is almost always used with a
<em>momentum</em> or inertia term that serves as a memory of the direction we
are moving in parameter space. This is typically implemented as
follows</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathbf{v}_{t}=\gamma \mathbf{v}_{t-1}+\eta_{t}\nabla_\theta E(\boldsymbol{\theta}_t) \nonumber
\]</div>
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<div id="_auto1"></div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\begin{equation}
\boldsymbol{\theta}_{t+1}= \boldsymbol{\theta}_t -\mathbf{v}_{t},
\label{_auto1} \tag{2}
\end{equation}
\]</div>
<p>where we have introduced a momentum parameter <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma\)</span>, with
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(0\le\gamma\le 1\)</span>, and for brevity we dropped the explicit notation to
indicate the gradient is to be taken over a different mini-batch at
each step. We call this algorithm gradient descent with momentum
(GDM). From these equations, it is clear that <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{v}_t\)</span> is a
running average of recently encountered gradients and
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((1-\gamma)^{-1}\)</span> sets the characteristic time scale for the memory
used in the averaging procedure. Consistent with this, when
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma=0\)</span>, this just reduces down to ordinary SGD as discussed
earlier. An equivalent way of writing the updates is</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\Delta \boldsymbol{\theta}_{t+1} = \gamma \Delta \boldsymbol{\theta}_t -\ \eta_{t}\nabla_\theta E(\boldsymbol{\theta}_t),
\]</div>
<p>where we have defined <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\Delta \boldsymbol{\theta}_{t}= \boldsymbol{\theta}_t-\boldsymbol{\theta}_{t-1}\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="more-on-momentum-based-approaches">
<h2>More on momentum based approaches<a class="headerlink" href="#more-on-momentum-based-approaches" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Let us try to get more intuition from these equations. It is helpful
to consider a simple physical analogy with a particle of mass <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(m\)</span>
moving in a viscous medium with drag coefficient <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mu\)</span> and potential
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(E(\mathbf{w})\)</span>. If we denote the particles position by <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{w}\)</span>,
then its motion is described by</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
m {d^2 \mathbf{w} \over dt^2} + \mu {d \mathbf{w} \over dt }= -\nabla_w E(\mathbf{w}).
\]</div>
<p>We can discretize this equation in the usual way to get</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
m { \mathbf{w}_{t+\Delta t}-2 \mathbf{w}_{t} +\mathbf{w}_{t-\Delta t} \over (\Delta t)^2}+\mu {\mathbf{w}_{t+\Delta t}- \mathbf{w}_{t} \over \Delta t} = -\nabla_w E(\mathbf{w}).
\]</div>
<p>Rearranging this equation, we can rewrite this as</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\Delta \mathbf{w}_{t +\Delta t}= - { (\Delta t)^2 \over m +\mu \Delta t} \nabla_w E(\mathbf{w})+ {m \over m +\mu \Delta t} \Delta \mathbf{w}_t.
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="momentum-parameter">
<h2>Momentum parameter<a class="headerlink" href="#momentum-parameter" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Notice that this equation is identical to previous one if we identify
the position of the particle, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{w}\)</span>, with the parameters
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{\theta}\)</span>. This allows us to identify the momentum
parameter and learning rate with the mass of the particle and the
viscous drag as:</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\gamma= {m \over m +\mu \Delta t }, \qquad \eta = {(\Delta t)^2 \over m +\mu \Delta t}.
\]</div>
<p>Thus, as the name suggests, the momentum parameter is proportional to
the mass of the particle and effectively provides inertia.
Furthermore, in the large viscosity/small learning rate limit, our
memory time scales as <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((1-\gamma)^{-1} \approx m/(\mu \Delta t)\)</span>.</p>
<p>Why is momentum useful? SGD momentum helps the gradient descent
algorithm gain speed in directions with persistent but small gradients
even in the presence of stochasticity, while suppressing oscillations
in high-curvature directions. This becomes especially important in
situations where the landscape is shallow and flat in some directions
and narrow and steep in others. It has been argued that first-order
methods (with appropriate initial conditions) can perform comparable
to more expensive second order methods, especially in the context of
complex deep learning models.</p>
<p>These beneficial properties of momentum can sometimes become even more
pronounced by using a slight modification of the classical momentum
algorithm called Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (NAG).</p>
<p>In the NAG algorithm, rather than calculating the gradient at the
current parameters, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\nabla_\theta E(\boldsymbol{\theta}_t)\)</span>, one
calculates the gradient at the expected value of the parameters given
our current momentum, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\nabla_\theta E(\boldsymbol{\theta}_t +\gamma
\mathbf{v}_{t-1})\)</span>. This yields the NAG update rule</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathbf{v}_{t}=\gamma \mathbf{v}_{t-1}+\eta_{t}\nabla_\theta E(\boldsymbol{\theta}_t +\gamma \mathbf{v}_{t-1}) \nonumber
\]</div>
<!-- Equation labels as ordinary links -->
<div id="_auto2"></div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\begin{equation}
\boldsymbol{\theta}_{t+1}= \boldsymbol{\theta}_t -\mathbf{v}_{t}.
\label{_auto2} \tag{3}
\end{equation}
\]</div>
<p>One of the major advantages of NAG is that it allows for the use of a larger learning rate than GDM for the same choice of <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\gamma\)</span>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="second-moment-of-the-gradient">
<h2>Second moment of the gradient<a class="headerlink" href="#second-moment-of-the-gradient" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In stochastic gradient descent, with and without momentum, we still
have to specify a schedule for tuning the learning rates <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\eta_t\)</span>
as a function of time. As discussed in the context of Newtons
method, this presents a number of dilemmas. The learning rate is
limited by the steepest direction which can change depending on the
current position in the landscape. To circumvent this problem, ideally
our algorithm would keep track of curvature and take large steps in
shallow, flat directions and small steps in steep, narrow directions.
Second-order methods accomplish this by calculating or approximating
the Hessian and normalizing the learning rate by the
curvature. However, this is very computationally expensive for
extremely large models. Ideally, we would like to be able to
adaptively change the step size to match the landscape without paying
the steep computational price of calculating or approximating
Hessians.</p>
<p>Recently, a number of methods have been introduced that accomplish
this by tracking not only the gradient, but also the second moment of
the gradient. These methods include AdaGrad, AdaDelta, Root Mean Squared Propagation (RMS-Prop), and
<a class="reference external" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6980">ADAM</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="rms-prop">
<h2>RMS prop<a class="headerlink" href="#rms-prop" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In RMS prop, in addition to keeping a running average of the first
moment of the gradient, we also keep track of the second moment
denoted by <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{s}_t=\mathbb{E}[\mathbf{g}_t^2]\)</span>. The update rule
for RMS prop is given by</p>
<!-- Equation labels as ordinary links -->
<div id="_auto3"></div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{g}_t = \nabla_\theta E(\boldsymbol{\theta})
\label{_auto3} \tag{4}
\end{equation}
\]</div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathbf{s}_t =\beta \mathbf{s}_{t-1} +(1-\beta)\mathbf{g}_t^2 \nonumber
\]</div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{\theta}_{t+1}=\boldsymbol{\theta}_t - \eta_t { \mathbf{g}_t \over \sqrt{\mathbf{s}_t +\epsilon}}, \nonumber
\]</div>
<p>where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta\)</span> controls the averaging time of the second moment and is
typically taken to be about <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta=0.9\)</span>, <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\eta_t\)</span> is a learning rate
typically chosen to be <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(10^{-3}\)</span>, and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\epsilon\sim 10^{-8} \)</span> is a
small regularization constant to prevent divergences. Multiplication
and division by vectors is understood as an element-wise operation. It
is clear from this formula that the learning rate is reduced in
directions where the norm of the gradient is consistently large. This
greatly speeds up the convergence by allowing us to use a larger
learning rate for flat directions.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="adam-optimizer">
<h2><a class="reference external" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6980">ADAM optimizer</a><a class="headerlink" href="#adam-optimizer" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>A related algorithm is the ADAM optimizer. In
<a class="reference external" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6980">ADAM</a>, we keep a running average of
both the first and second moment of the gradient and use this
information to adaptively change the learning rate for different
parameters. The method isefficient when working with large
problems involving lots data and/or parameters. It is a combination of the
gradient descent with momentum algorithm and the RMSprop algorithm
discussed above.</p>
<p>In addition to keeping a running average of the first and
second moments of the gradient
(i.e. <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{m}_t=\mathbb{E}[\mathbf{g}_t]\)</span> and
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\mathbf{s}_t=\mathbb{E}[\mathbf{g}^2_t]\)</span>, respectively), ADAM
performs an additional bias correction to account for the fact that we
are estimating the first two moments of the gradient using a running
average (denoted by the hats in the update rule below). The update
rule for ADAM is given by (where multiplication and division are once
again understood to be element-wise operations below)</p>
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<div id="_auto4"></div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{g}_t = \nabla_\theta E(\boldsymbol{\theta})
\label{_auto4} \tag{5}
\end{equation}
\]</div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathbf{m}_t = \beta_1 \mathbf{m}_{t-1} + (1-\beta_1) \mathbf{g}_t \nonumber
\]</div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\mathbf{s}_t =\beta_2 \mathbf{s}_{t-1} +(1-\beta_2)\mathbf{g}_t^2 \nonumber
\]</div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{\mathbf{m}}_t={\mathbf{m}_t \over 1-\beta_1^t} \nonumber
\]</div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{\mathbf{s}}_t ={\mathbf{s}_t \over1-\beta_2^t} \nonumber
\]</div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\boldsymbol{\theta}_{t+1}=\boldsymbol{\theta}_t - \eta_t { \boldsymbol{\mathbf{m}}_t \over \sqrt{\boldsymbol{\mathbf{s}}_t} +\epsilon}, \nonumber
\]</div>
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<div id="_auto5"></div>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\begin{equation}
\label{_auto5} \tag{6}
\end{equation}
\]</div>
<p>where <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta_1\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\beta_2\)</span> set the memory lifetime of the first and
second moment and are typically taken to be <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(0.9\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(0.99\)</span>
respectively, and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\eta\)</span> and <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\epsilon\)</span> are identical to RMSprop.</p>
<p>Like in RMSprop, the effective step size of a parameter depends on the
magnitude of its gradient squared. To understand this better, let us
rewrite this expression in terms of the variance
<span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\boldsymbol{\sigma}_t^2 = \boldsymbol{\mathbf{s}}_t -
(\boldsymbol{\mathbf{m}}_t)^2\)</span>. Consider a single parameter <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(\theta_t\)</span>. The
update rule for this parameter is given by</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
\Delta \theta_{t+1}= -\eta_t { \boldsymbol{m}_t \over \sqrt{\sigma_t^2 + m_t^2 }+\epsilon}.
\]</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="algorithms-and-codes-for-adagrad-rmsprop-and-adam">
<h2>Algorithms and codes for Adagrad, RMSprop and Adam<a class="headerlink" href="#algorithms-and-codes-for-adagrad-rmsprop-and-adam" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The algorithms we have implemented are well described in the text by <a class="reference external" href="https://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/optimization.html">Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville, chapter 8</a>.</p>
<p>The codes which implement these algorithms are discussed after our presentation of automatic differentiation.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="practical-tips">
<h2>Practical tips<a class="headerlink" href="#practical-tips" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><strong>Randomize the data when making mini-batches</strong>. It is always important to randomly shuffle the data when forming mini-batches. Otherwise, the gradient descent method can fit spurious correlations resulting from the order in which data is presented.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Transform your inputs</strong>. Learning becomes difficult when our landscape has a mixture of steep and flat directions. One simple trick for minimizing these situations is to standardize the data by subtracting the mean and normalizing the variance of input variables. Whenever possible, also decorrelate the inputs. To understand why this is helpful, consider the case of linear regression. It is easy to show that for the squared error cost function, the Hessian of the cost function is just the correlation matrix between the inputs. Thus, by standardizing the inputs, we are ensuring that the landscape looks homogeneous in all directions in parameter space. Since most deep networks can be viewed as linear transformations followed by a non-linearity at each layer, we expect this intuition to hold beyond the linear case.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Monitor the out-of-sample performance.</strong> Always monitor the performance of your model on a validation set (a small portion of the training data that is held out of the training process to serve as a proxy for the test set. If the validation error starts increasing, then the model is beginning to overfit. Terminate the learning process. This <em>early stopping</em> significantly improves performance in many settings.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Adaptive optimization methods dont always have good generalization.</strong> Recent studies have shown that adaptive methods such as ADAM, RMSPorp, and AdaGrad tend to have poor generalization compared to SGD or SGD with momentum, particularly in the high-dimensional limit (i.e. the number of parameters exceeds the number of data points). Although it is not clear at this stage why these methods perform so well in training deep neural networks, simpler procedures like properly-tuned SGD may work as well or better in these applications.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Gerons text, see chapter 11, has several interesting discussions.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="automatic-differentiation">
<h2>Automatic differentiation<a class="headerlink" href="#automatic-differentiation" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation">Automatic differentiation (AD)</a>,
also called algorithmic
differentiation or computational differentiation,is a set of
techniques to numerically evaluate the derivative of a function
specified by a computer program. AD exploits the fact that every
computer program, no matter how complicated, executes a sequence of
elementary arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, etc.) and elementary functions (exp, log,
sin, cos, etc.). By applying the chain rule repeatedly to these
operations, derivatives of arbitrary order can be computed
automatically, accurately to working precision, and using at most a
small constant factor more arithmetic operations than the original
program.</p>
<p>Automatic differentiation is neither:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Symbolic differentiation, nor</p></li>
<li><p>Numerical differentiation (the method of finite differences).</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Symbolic differentiation can lead to inefficient code and faces the
difficulty of converting a computer program into a single expression,
while numerical differentiation can introduce round-off errors in the
discretization process and cancellation</p>
<p>Python has tools for so-called <strong>automatic differentiation</strong>.
Consider the following example</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
f(x) = \sin\left(2\pi x + x^2\right)
\]</div>
<p>which has the following derivative</p>
<div class="math notranslate nohighlight">
\[
f'(x) = \cos\left(2\pi x + x^2\right)\left(2\pi + 2x\right)
\]</div>
<p>Using <strong>autograd</strong> we have</p>
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<span class="c1"># To do elementwise differentiation:</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">elementwise_grad</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">egrad</span>
<span class="c1"># To plot:</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pi</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f_grad_analytic</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cos</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pi</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pi</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Do the comparison:</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linspace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1000</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">f_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">egrad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">computed</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">f_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">analytic</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">f_grad_analytic</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;Derivative computed from Autograd compared with the analytical derivative&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">computed</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;autograd&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">analytic</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;analytic&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;x&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;y&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">legend</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The max absolute difference is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">max</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">abs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">computed</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">analytic</span><span class="p">))))</span>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="using-autograd">
<h2>Using autograd<a class="headerlink" href="#using-autograd" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Here we
experiment with what kind of functions Autograd is capable
of finding the gradient of. The following Python functions are just
meant to illustrate what Autograd can do, but please feel free to
experiment with other, possibly more complicated, functions as well.</p>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f1</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">3</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="n">f1_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Remember to send in float as argument to the computed gradient from Autograd!</span>
<span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span>
<span class="c1"># See the evaluated gradient at a using autograd:</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The gradient of f1 evaluated at a = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2"> using autograd is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f1_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1"># Compare with the analytical derivative, that is f1&#39;(x) = 3*x**2 </span>
<span class="n">grad_analytical</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The gradient of f1 evaluated at a = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2"> by finding the analytic expression is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">grad_analytical</span><span class="p">))</span>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="autograd-with-more-complicated-functions">
<h2>Autograd with more complicated functions<a class="headerlink" href="#autograd-with-more-complicated-functions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>To differentiate with respect to two (or more) arguments of a Python
function, Autograd need to know at which variable the function if
being differentiated with respect to.</p>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f2</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">x2</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">3</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="c1"># By sending the argument 0, Autograd will compute the derivative w.r.t the first variable, in this case x1</span>
<span class="n">f2_grad_x1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># ... and differentiate w.r.t x2 by sending 1 as an additional arugment to grad</span>
<span class="n">f2_grad_x2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span>
<span class="n">x2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">3.0</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Evaluating at x1 = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">, x2 = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">x2</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;-&quot;</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Compare with the analytical derivatives:</span>
<span class="c1"># Derivative of f2 w.r.t x1 is: 9*x1**2 + x2:</span>
<span class="n">f2_grad_x1_analytical</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">9</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x2</span>
<span class="c1"># Derivative of f2 w.r.t x2 is: x1 - 5:</span>
<span class="n">f2_grad_x2_analytical</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">x1</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="mi">5</span>
<span class="c1"># See the evaluated derivations:</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The derivative of f2 w.r.t x1: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">f2_grad_x1</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">x2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">))</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The analytical derivative of f2 w.r.t x1: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">f2_grad_x1</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">x2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">))</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The derivative of f2 w.r.t x2: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">f2_grad_x2</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">x2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">))</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The analytical derivative of f2 w.r.t x2: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">f2_grad_x2</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">x2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">))</span>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>Note that the grad function will not produce the true gradient of the function. The true gradient of a function with two or more variables will produce a vector, where each element is the function differentiated w.r.t a variable.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="more-complicated-functions-using-the-elements-of-their-arguments-directly">
<h2>More complicated functions using the elements of their arguments directly<a class="headerlink" href="#more-complicated-functions-using-the-elements-of-their-arguments-directly" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f3</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="c1"># Assumes x is an array of length 5 or higher</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">7</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">11</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="n">f3_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f3</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linspace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Print the computed gradient:</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The computed gradient of f3 is: &quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">f3_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="c1"># The analytical gradient is: (2, 3, 5, 7, 22*x[4])</span>
<span class="n">f3_grad_analytical</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">22</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="c1"># Print the analytical gradient:</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The analytical gradient of f3 is: &quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">f3_grad_analytical</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Note that in this case, when sending an array as input argument, the
output from Autograd is another array. This is the true gradient of
the function, as opposed to the function in the previous example. By
using arrays to represent the variables, the output from Autograd
might be easier to work with, as the output is closer to what one
could expect form a gradient-evaluting function.</p>
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<div class="section" id="functions-using-mathematical-functions-from-numpy">
<h2>Functions using mathematical functions from Numpy<a class="headerlink" href="#functions-using-mathematical-functions-from-numpy" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f4</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sqrt</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pi</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">f4_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f4</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">2.7</span>
<span class="c1"># Print the computed derivative:</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The computed derivative of f4 at x = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2"> is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f4_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1"># The analytical derivative is: x/sqrt(1 + x**2) + exp(x) + cos(2*pi*x)*2*pi</span>
<span class="n">f4_grad_analytical</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sqrt</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cos</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pi</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pi</span>
<span class="c1"># Print the analytical gradient:</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The analytical gradient of f4 at x = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2"> is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f4_grad_analytical</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<h2>More autograd<a class="headerlink" href="#more-autograd" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f5</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">&gt;=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="n">f5_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f5</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">2.7</span>
<span class="c1"># Print the computed derivative:</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The computed derivative of f5 at x = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2"> is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f5_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)))</span>
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<div class="section" id="and-with-loops">
<h2>And with loops<a class="headerlink" href="#and-with-loops" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f6_for</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">val</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">val</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">val</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="n">i</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">val</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f6_while</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">val</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="n">i</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="k">while</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">val</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">val</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="n">i</span>
<span class="n">i</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">val</span>
<span class="n">f6_for_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f6_for</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">f6_while_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f6_while</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.5</span>
<span class="c1"># Print the computed derivaties of f6_for and f6_while</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The computed derivative of f6_for at x = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2"> is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f6_for_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The computed derivative of f6_while at x = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2"> is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f6_while_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)))</span>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="c1"># Both of the functions are implementation of the sum: sum(x**i) for i = 0, ..., 9</span>
<span class="c1"># The analytical derivative is: sum(i*x**(i-1)) </span>
<span class="n">f6_grad_analytical</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">f6_grad_analytical</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="n">i</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The analytical derivative of f6 at x = </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2"> is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f6_grad_analytical</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<div class="section" id="using-recursion">
<h2>Using recursion<a class="headerlink" href="#using-recursion" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f7</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="c1"># Assume that n is an integer</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">f7</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">f7_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f7</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">2.0</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The computed derivative of f7 at n = </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2"> is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f7_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="c1"># The function f7 is an implementation of the factorial of n.</span>
<span class="c1"># By using the product rule, one can find that the derivative is:</span>
<span class="n">f7_grad_analytical</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">tmp</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">k</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">k</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="n">i</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">tmp</span> <span class="o">*=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">k</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">f7_grad_analytical</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="n">tmp</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The analytical derivative of f7 at n = </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2"> is: </span><span class="si">%g</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f7_grad_analytical</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<p>Note that if n is equal to zero or one, Autograd will give an error message. This message appears when the output is independent on input.</p>
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<h2>Unsupported functions<a class="headerlink" href="#unsupported-functions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Autograd supports many features. However, there are some functions that is not supported (yet) by Autograd.</p>
<p>Assigning a value to the variable being differentiated with respect to</p>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f8</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="c1"># Assume x is an array</span>
<span class="n">x</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">3</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="n">f8_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f8</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">8.4</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The derivative of f8 is:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f8_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<p>Here, Autograd tells us that an ArrayBox does not support item assignment. The item assignment is done when the program tries to assign x[2] to the value 3. However, Autograd has implemented the computation of the derivative such that this assignment is not possible.</p>
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<div class="section" id="the-syntax-a-dot-b-when-finding-the-dot-product">
<h2>The syntax a.dot(b) when finding the dot product<a class="headerlink" href="#the-syntax-a-dot-b-when-finding-the-dot-product" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f9</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="c1"># Assume a is an array with 2 elements</span>
<span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">f9_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f9</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">0.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The derivative of f9 is:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f9_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<p>Here we are told that the dot function does not belong to Autograds
version of a Numpy array. To overcome this, an alternative syntax
which also computed the dot product can be used:</p>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">f9_alternative</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="c1"># Assume a is an array with 2 elements</span>
<span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># The same as x_1*b_1 + x_2*b_2</span>
<span class="n">f9_alternative_grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">f9_alternative</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mf">3.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">0.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;The gradient of f9 is:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">f9_alternative_grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="c1"># The analytical gradient of the dot product of vectors x and b with two elements (x_1,x_2) and (b_1, b_2) respectively</span>
<span class="c1"># w.r.t x is (b_1, b_2).</span>
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<h2>Recommended to avoid<a class="headerlink" href="#recommended-to-avoid" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The documentation recommends to avoid inplace operations such as</p>
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<span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">b</span>
<span class="n">a</span><span class="o">*=</span> <span class="n">b</span>
<span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">/=</span><span class="n">b</span>
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<h2>Using Autograd with OLS<a class="headerlink" href="#using-autograd-with-ols" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We conclude the part on optmization by showing how we can make codes
for linear regression and logistic regression using <strong>autograd</strong>. The
first example shows results with ordinary leats squares.</p>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Using Autograd to calculate gradients for OLS</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">autograd.numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">CostOLS</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">theta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Hessian matrix</span>
<span class="n">H</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">XT_X</span>
<span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">EigVectors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Eigenvalues of Hessian Matrix:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">max</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Niterations</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1000</span>
<span class="c1"># define the gradient</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">CostOLS</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own gd&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xnew</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="n">Xnew</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">ypredict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Xnew</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">ypredict2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Xnew</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;r-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;b-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;ro&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">15.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$x$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$y$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;Random numbers &#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<h2>Same code but now with momentum gradient descent<a class="headerlink" href="#id9" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">autograd.numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">CostOLS</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="c1">#+np.random.randn(n,1)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">theta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Hessian matrix</span>
<span class="n">H</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">XT_X</span>
<span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">EigVectors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Eigenvalues of Hessian Matrix:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">max</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Niterations</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">30</span>
<span class="c1"># define the gradient</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">CostOLS</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">iter</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own gd&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Now improve with momentum gradient descent</span>
<span class="n">change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="n">delta_momentum</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.3</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># calculate gradient</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># calculate update</span>
<span class="n">new_change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">delta_momentum</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">change</span>
<span class="c1"># take a step</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">new_change</span>
<span class="c1"># save the change</span>
<span class="n">change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">new_change</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">iter</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own gd wth momentum&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h2>But noen of these can compete with Newtons method<a class="headerlink" href="#but-noen-of-these-can-compete-with-newton-s-method" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">autograd.numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">CostOLS</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">beta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Hessian matrix</span>
<span class="n">H</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">XT_X</span>
<span class="c1"># Note that here the Hessian does not depend on the parameters beta</span>
<span class="n">invH</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">EigVectors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Eigenvalues of Hessian Matrix:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">beta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Niterations</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span>
<span class="c1"># define the gradient</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">CostOLS</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">beta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">invH</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">iter</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;beta from own Newton code&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">beta</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h2>Including Stochastic Gradient Descent with Autograd<a class="headerlink" href="#including-stochastic-gradient-descent-with-autograd" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>In this code we include the stochastic gradient descent approach discussed above. Note here that we specify which argument we are taking the derivative with respect to when using <strong>autograd</strong>.</p>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Using Autograd to calculate gradients using SGD</span>
<span class="c1"># OLS example</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">autograd.numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="c1"># Note change from previous example</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">CostOLS</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">theta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Hessian matrix</span>
<span class="n">H</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">XT_X</span>
<span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">EigVectors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Eigenvalues of Hessian Matrix:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">max</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Niterations</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1000</span>
<span class="c1"># Note that we request the derivative wrt third argument (theta, 2 here)</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">CostOLS</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own gd&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xnew</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="n">Xnew</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">ypredict</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Xnew</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">ypredict2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Xnew</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;r-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">xnew</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ypredict2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;b-&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">plot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;ro&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">axis</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">15.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">xlabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$x$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ylabel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;$y$&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;Random numbers &#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">plt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">show</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">n_epochs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="n">M</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="c1">#size of each minibatch</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#number of minibatches</span>
<span class="n">t0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">learning_schedule</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">t0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">t1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">epoch</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># Can you figure out a better way of setting up the contributions to each batch?</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">random_index</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">M</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">yi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">yi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">xi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">learning_schedule</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">epoch</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own sdg&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h2>Same code but now with momentum gradient descent<a class="headerlink" href="#id10" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Using Autograd to calculate gradients using SGD</span>
<span class="c1"># OLS example</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">autograd.numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="c1"># Note change from previous example</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">CostOLS</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">theta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Hessian matrix</span>
<span class="n">H</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">XT_X</span>
<span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">EigVectors</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">eig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">H</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;Eigenvalues of Hessian Matrix:</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">max</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">EigValues</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Niterations</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="c1"># Note that we request the derivative wrt third argument (theta, 2 here)</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">CostOLS</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Niterations</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own gd&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n_epochs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="n">M</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="c1">#size of each minibatch</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#number of minibatches</span>
<span class="n">t0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">learning_schedule</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">t0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">t1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="n">delta_momentum</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.3</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">epoch</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">random_index</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">M</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">yi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">yi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">xi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">learning_schedule</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">epoch</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># calculate update</span>
<span class="n">new_change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">delta_momentum</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">change</span>
<span class="c1"># take a step</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">new_change</span>
<span class="c1"># save the change</span>
<span class="n">change</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">new_change</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own sdg with momentum&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="section" id="similar-second-order-function-now-problem-but-now-with-adagrad">
<h2>Similar (second order function now) problem but now with AdaGrad<a class="headerlink" href="#similar-second-order-function-now-problem-but-now-with-adagrad" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Using Autograd to calculate gradients using AdaGrad and Stochastic Gradient descent</span>
<span class="c1"># OLS example</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">autograd.numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="c1"># Note change from previous example</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">CostOLS</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1000</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">theta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Note that we request the derivative wrt third argument (theta, 2 here)</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">CostOLS</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Define parameters for Stochastic Gradient Descent</span>
<span class="n">n_epochs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="n">M</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="c1">#size of each minibatch</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#number of minibatches</span>
<span class="c1"># Guess for unknown parameters theta</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Value for learning rate</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.01</span>
<span class="c1"># Including AdaGrad parameter to avoid possible division by zero</span>
<span class="n">delta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1e-8</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">epoch</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">Giter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">random_index</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">M</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">yi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">yi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">xi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Giter</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="n">gradients</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="n">update</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">gradients</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">delta</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sqrt</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Giter</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">update</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own AdaGrad&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Running this code we note an almost perfect agreement with the results from matrix inversion.</p>
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<div class="section" id="rmsprop-for-adaptive-learning-rate-with-stochastic-gradient-descent">
<h2>RMSprop for adaptive learning rate with Stochastic Gradient Descent<a class="headerlink" href="#rmsprop-for-adaptive-learning-rate-with-stochastic-gradient-descent" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<div class="highlight-ipython3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Using Autograd to calculate gradients using RMSprop and Stochastic Gradient descent</span>
<span class="c1"># OLS example</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">autograd.numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="c1"># Note change from previous example</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">CostOLS</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1000</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="c1"># +np.random.randn(n,1)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">theta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Note that we request the derivative wrt third argument (theta, 2 here)</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">CostOLS</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Define parameters for Stochastic Gradient Descent</span>
<span class="n">n_epochs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="n">M</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="c1">#size of each minibatch</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#number of minibatches</span>
<span class="c1"># Guess for unknown parameters theta</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Value for learning rate</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.01</span>
<span class="c1"># Value for parameter rho</span>
<span class="n">rho</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.99</span>
<span class="c1"># Including AdaGrad parameter to avoid possible division by zero</span>
<span class="n">delta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1e-8</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">epoch</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">Giter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">random_index</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">M</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">yi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">yi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">xi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Accumulated gradient</span>
<span class="c1"># Scaling with rho the new and the previous results</span>
<span class="n">Giter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">rho</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">Giter</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">rho</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Taking the diagonal only and inverting</span>
<span class="n">update</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">gradients</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">delta</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sqrt</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Giter</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="c1"># Hadamard product</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">update</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own RMSprop&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h2>And finally <a class="reference external" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6980.pdf">ADAM</a><a class="headerlink" href="#and-finally-adam" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="c1"># OLS example</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">random</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seed</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">autograd.numpy</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">np</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">plt</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="c1"># Note change from previous example</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">CostOLS</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">y</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1000</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rand</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">2.0</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="c1"># +np.random.randn(n,1)</span>
<span class="n">X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">c_</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">XT_X</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">X</span>
<span class="n">theta_linreg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">linalg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pinv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">XT_X</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">X</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">T</span> <span class="o">@</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Own inversion&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta_linreg</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Note that we request the derivative wrt third argument (theta, 2 here)</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">CostOLS</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Define parameters for Stochastic Gradient Descent</span>
<span class="n">n_epochs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="n">M</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="c1">#size of each minibatch</span>
<span class="n">m</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1">#number of minibatches</span>
<span class="c1"># Guess for unknown parameters theta</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Value for learning rate</span>
<span class="n">eta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.01</span>
<span class="c1"># Value for parameters beta1 and beta2, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6980</span>
<span class="n">beta1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.9</span>
<span class="n">beta2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.999</span>
<span class="c1"># Including AdaGrad parameter to avoid possible division by zero</span>
<span class="n">delta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1e-7</span>
<span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">epoch</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n_epochs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">first_moment</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="n">second_moment</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span>
<span class="nb">iter</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">random_index</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">M</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">random</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">randint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">m</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">xi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">X</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">yi</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">random_index</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">gradients</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">M</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">training_gradient</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">yi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">xi</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Computing moments first</span>
<span class="n">first_moment</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">beta1</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">first_moment</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">beta1</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="n">second_moment</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">beta2</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">second_moment</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">beta2</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">gradients</span>
<span class="n">first_term</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">first_moment</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">beta1</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="nb">iter</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">second_term</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">second_moment</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">beta2</span><span class="o">**</span><span class="nb">iter</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Scaling with rho the new and the previous results</span>
<span class="n">update</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">eta</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">first_term</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sqrt</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">second_term</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="n">delta</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">theta</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">update</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;theta from own ADAM&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">theta</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h2>And Logistic Regression<a class="headerlink" href="#and-logistic-regression" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">autograd</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">sigmoid</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="mf">0.5</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tanh</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mf">2.</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">logistic_predictions</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">inputs</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># Outputs probability of a label being true according to logistic model.</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">sigmoid</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dot</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">inputs</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">training_loss</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="c1"># Training loss is the negative log-likelihood of the training labels.</span>
<span class="n">preds</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logistic_predictions</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">inputs</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">label_probabilities</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">preds</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">targets</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">preds</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">targets</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">label_probabilities</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="c1"># Build a toy dataset.</span>
<span class="n">inputs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([[</span><span class="mf">0.52</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1.12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.77</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mf">0.88</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">1.08</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.15</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mf">0.52</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.06</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">1.30</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="p">[</span><span class="mf">0.74</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">2.49</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">1.39</span><span class="p">]])</span>
<span class="n">targets</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kc">False</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="c1"># Define a function that returns gradients of training loss using Autograd.</span>
<span class="n">training_gradient_fun</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">training_loss</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># Optimize weights using gradient descent.</span>
<span class="n">weights</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mf">0.0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Initial loss:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">training_loss</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">weights</span> <span class="o">-=</span> <span class="n">training_gradient_fun</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mf">0.01</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;Trained loss:&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">training_loss</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">weights</span><span class="p">))</span>
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<h2>Introducing <a class="reference external" href="https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">JAX</a><a class="headerlink" href="#introducing-jax" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Presently, instead of using <strong>autograd</strong>, we recommend using <a class="reference external" href="https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">JAX</a></p>
<p><strong>JAX</strong> is Autograd and <a class="reference external" href="https://www.tensorflow.org/xla">XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra))</a>,
brought together for high-performance numerical computing and machine learning research.
It provides composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, parallelize, Just-In-Time compile to GPU/TPU, and more.</p>
<p>Heres a simple example on how you can use <strong>JAX</strong> to compute the derivate of the logistic function.</p>
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<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">jax</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">jit</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">vmap</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">sum_logistic</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">jnp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sum</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">1.0</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">jnp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">exp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="n">x_small</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">jnp</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">arange</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">3.</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">derivative_fn</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sum_logistic</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">derivative_fn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">x_small</span><span class="p">))</span>
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