plot_mlp_training_curves.py

"""
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Compare Stochastic learning strategies for MLPClassifier
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This example visualizes some training loss curves for different stochastic
learning strategies, including SGD and Adam. Because of time-constraints, we
use several small datasets, for which L-BFGS might be more suitable. The
general trend shown in these examples seems to carry over to larger datasets,
however.
"""

print(__doc__)
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.neural_network import MLPClassifier
from sklearn.preprocessing import MinMaxScaler
from sklearn import datasets

# different learning rate schedules and momentum parameters
params = [{'algorithm': 'sgd', 'learning_rate': 'constant', 'momentum': 0,
           'learning_rate_init': 0.2},
          {'algorithm': 'sgd', 'learning_rate': 'constant', 'momentum': .9,
           'nesterovs_momentum': False, 'learning_rate_init': 0.2},
          {'algorithm': 'sgd', 'learning_rate': 'constant', 'momentum': .9,
           'nesterovs_momentum': True, 'learning_rate_init': 0.2},
          {'algorithm': 'sgd', 'learning_rate': 'invscaling', 'momentum': 0,
           'learning_rate_init': 0.2},
          {'algorithm': 'sgd', 'learning_rate': 'invscaling', 'momentum': .9,
           'nesterovs_momentum': True, 'learning_rate_init': 0.2},
          {'algorithm': 'sgd', 'learning_rate': 'invscaling', 'momentum': .9,
           'nesterovs_momentum': False, 'learning_rate_init': 0.2},
          {'algorithm': 'adam'}]

labels = ["constant learning-rate", "constant with momentum",
          "constant with Nesterov's momentum",
          "inv-scaling learning-rate", "inv-scaling with momentum",
          "inv-scaling with Nesterov's momentum", "adam"]

plot_args = [{'c': 'red', 'linestyle': '-'},
             {'c': 'green', 'linestyle': '-'},
             {'c': 'blue', 'linestyle': '-'},
             {'c': 'red', 'linestyle': '--'},
             {'c': 'green', 'linestyle': '--'},
             {'c': 'blue', 'linestyle': '--'},
             {'c': 'black', 'linestyle': '-'}]


def plot_on_dataset(X, y, ax, name):
    # for each dataset, plot learning for each learning strategy
    print("\nlearning on dataset %s" % name)
    ax.set_title(name)
    X = MinMaxScaler().fit_transform(X)
    mlps = []
    if name == "digits":
        # digits is larger but converges fairly quickly
        max_iter = 15
    else:
        max_iter = 400

    for label, param in zip(labels, params):
        print("training: %s" % label)
        mlp = MLPClassifier(verbose=0, random_state=0,
                            max_iter=max_iter, **param)
        mlp.fit(X, y)
        mlps.append(mlp)
        print("Training set score: %f" % mlp.score(X, y))
        print("Training set loss: %f" % mlp.loss_)
    for mlp, label, args in zip(mlps, labels, plot_args):
            ax.plot(mlp.loss_curve_, label=label, **args)


fig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(15, 10))
# load / generate some toy datasets
iris = datasets.load_iris()
digits = datasets.load_digits()
data_sets = [(iris.data, iris.target),
             (digits.data, digits.target),
             datasets.make_circles(noise=0.2, factor=0.5, random_state=1),
             datasets.make_moons(noise=0.3, random_state=0)]

for ax, data, name in zip(axes.ravel(), data_sets, ['iris', 'digits',
                                                    'circles', 'moons']):
    plot_on_dataset(*data, ax=ax, name=name)

fig.legend(ax.get_lines(), labels=labels, ncol=3, loc="upper center")
plt.show()