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ResNet

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Introduction to Residual Network.

The problem of very deep neural networks

The main benefit of a very deep network is that it can represent very complex functions. It can also learn features at many different levels of abstraction, from edges (at the lower layers) to very complex features (at the deeper layers).

However, using a deeper network doesn’t always help. A huge barrier to training them is vanishing gradients: very deep networks often have a gradient signal that goes to zero quickly, thus making gradient descent unbearably slow. More specifically, during gradient descent, as you backprop from the final layer back to the first layer, you are multiplying by the weight matrix on each step, and thus the gradient can decrease exponentially quickly to zero (or, in rare cases, grow exponentially quickly and “explode” to take very large values).

During training, you might therefore see the magnitude (or norm) of the gradient for the earlier layers descrease to zero very rapidly as training proceeds:

Vanishing gradient

Building a Residual Network

In ResNets, a “shortcut” or a “skip connection” allows the gradient to be directly backpropagated to earlier layers:

A ResNet block showing a skip-connection

The image on the left shows the “main path” through the network. The image on the right adds a shortcut to the main path. By stacking these ResNet blocks on top of each other, you can form a very deep network.

ResNet blocks with the shortcut also makes it very easy for one of the blocks to learn an identity function. This means that you can stack on additional ResNet blocks with little risk of harming training set performance. (There is also some evidence that the ease of learning an identity function–even more than skip connections helping with vanishing gradients–accounts for ResNets’ remarkable performance.)

Two main types of blocks are used in a ResNet, depending mainly on whether the input/output dimensions are same or different.

Identity Block

The identity block is the standard block used in ResNets, and corresponds to the case where the input activation (say a[l]) has the same dimension as the output activation (say a[l+2]).

To flesh out the different steps of what happens in a ResNet’s identity block, here is an alternative diagram showing the individual steps:

Identity block. Skip connection “skips over” 3 layers

The upper path is the “shortcut path.” The lower path is the “main path.” In this diagram, we have also made explicit the CONV2D and ReLU steps in each layer. To speed up training we have also added a BatchNorm step.

Here’re the individual steps.

  • First component of main path:

    • The first CONV2D has F1 filters of shape (1,1) and a stride of (1,1). Its padding is “valid” and its name should be conv_name_base + ‘2a’. Use 0 as the seed for the random initialization.
    • The first BatchNorm is normalizing the channels axis. Its name should be bn_name_base + ‘2a’.
    • Then apply the ReLU activation function. This has no name and no hyperparameters.

  • Second component of main path:

    • The second CONV2D has F2 filters of shape (f,f) and a stride of (1,1). Its padding is “same” and its name should be conv_name_base + ‘2b’. Use 0 as the seed for the random initialization.
    • The second BatchNorm is normalizing the channels axis. Its name should be bn_name_base + ‘2b’.
    • Then apply the ReLU activation function. This has no name and no hyperparameters.

  • Third component of main path:

    • The third CONV2D has F3 filters of shape (1,1) and a stride of (1,1). Its padding is “valid” and its name should be conv_name_base + ‘2c’. Use 0 as the seed for the random initialization.
    • The third BatchNorm is normalizing the channels axis. Its name should be bn_name_base + ‘2c’. Note that there is no ReLU activation function in this component.

  • Final step:

    • The shortcut and the input are added together.
    • Then apply the ReLU activation function. This has no name and no hyperparameters.
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def identity_block(X, f, filters, stage, block):
    """
    Implementation of the identity block as defined in Figure 3

    Arguments:
    X -- input tensor of shape (m, n_H_prev, n_W_prev, n_C_prev)
    f -- integer, specifying the shape of the middle CONV's window for the main path
    filters -- python list of integers, defining the number of filters in the CONV layers of the main path
    stage -- integer, used to name the layers, depending on their position in the network
    block -- string/character, used to name the layers, depending on their position in the network

    Returns:
    X -- output of the identity block, tensor of shape (m, n_H, n_W, n_C)
    """

    # defining name basis
    conv_name_base = 'res' + str(stage) + block + '_branch'
    bn_name_base = 'bn' + str(stage) + block + '_branch'

    # Retrieve Filters
    F1, F2, F3 = filters

    # Save the input value. You'll need this later to add back to the main path. 
    X_shortcut = X

    # First component of main path
    X = Conv2D(filters = F1, kernel_size = (1, 1), strides = (1,1), padding = 'valid', name = conv_name_base + '2a', kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X)
    X = BatchNormalization(axis = 3, name = bn_name_base + '2a')(X)
    X = Activation('relu')(X)

    ### START CODE HERE ###

    # Second component of main path (≈3 lines)
    X = Conv2D(filters = F2, kernel_size = (f, f), strides = (1,1), padding = 'same', name = conv_name_base + '2b', kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X)
    X = BatchNormalization(axis = 3, name = bn_name_base + '2b')(X)
    X = Activation('relu')(X)

    # Third component of main path (≈2 lines)
    X = Conv2D(filters = F3, kernel_size = (1, 1), strides = (1,1), padding = 'valid', name = conv_name_base + '2c', kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X)
    X = BatchNormalization(axis = 3, name = bn_name_base + '2c')(X)

    # Final step: Add shortcut value to main path, and pass it through a RELU activation (≈2 lines)
    X = Add()([X, X_shortcut])
    X = Activation('relu')(X)

    ### END CODE HERE ###

    return X

Convolutional Block

The ResNet “convolutional block” is the other type of block. You can use this type of block when the input and output dimensions don’t match up. The difference with the identity block is that there is a CONV2D layer in the shortcut path :

Convolutional block

The CONV2D layer in the shortcut path is used to resize the input x to a different dimension, so that the dimensions match up in the final addition needed to add the shortcut value back to the main path. (This plays a similar role as the matrix Ws discussed in lecture.)

For example, to reduce the activation dimensions’s height and width by a factor of 2, you can use a 1x1 convolution with a stride of 2. The CONV2D layer on the shortcut path does not use any non-linear activation function. Its main role is to just apply a (learned) linear function that reduces the dimension of the input, so that the dimensions match up for the later addition step.

The details of the convolutional block are as follows.

  • First component of main path:

    • The first CONV2D has F1 filters of shape (1,1) and a stride of (s,s). Its padding is “valid” and its name should be conv_name_base + ‘2a’.
    • The first BatchNorm is normalizing the channels axis. Its name should be bn_name_base + ‘2a’.
    • Then apply the ReLU activation function. This has no name and no hyperparameters.

  • Second component of main path:

    • The second CONV2D has F2 filters of (f,f) and a stride of (1,1). Its padding is “same” and it’s name should be conv_name_base + ‘2b’.
    • The second BatchNorm is normalizing the channels axis. Its name should be bn_name_base + ‘2b’.
    • Then apply the ReLU activation function. This has no name and no hyperparameters.

  • Third component of main path:

    • The third CONV2D has F3 filters of (1,1) and a stride of (1,1). Its padding is “valid” and it’s name should be conv_name_base + ‘2c’.
    • The third BatchNorm is normalizing the channels axis. Its name should be bn_name_base + ‘2c’. Note that there is no ReLU activation function in this component.

  • Shortcut path:

    • The CONV2D has F3 filters of shape (1,1) and a stride of (s,s). Its padding is “valid” and its name should be conv_name_base + ‘1’.
    • The BatchNorm is normalizing the channels axis. Its name should be bn_name_base + ‘1’.

  • Final step:

    • The shortcut and the main path values are added together.
    • Then apply the ReLU activation function. This has no name and no hyperparameters.
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# GRADED FUNCTION: convolutional_block

def convolutional_block(X, f, filters, stage, block, s = 2):
    """
    Implementation of the convolutional block as defined in Figure 4

    Arguments:
    X -- input tensor of shape (m, n_H_prev, n_W_prev, n_C_prev)
    f -- integer, specifying the shape of the middle CONV's window for the main path
    filters -- python list of integers, defining the number of filters in the CONV layers of the main path
    stage -- integer, used to name the layers, depending on their position in the network
    block -- string/character, used to name the layers, depending on their position in the network
    s -- Integer, specifying the stride to be used

    Returns:
    X -- output of the convolutional block, tensor of shape (m, n_H, n_W, n_C)
    """

    # defining name basis
    conv_name_base = 'res' + str(stage) + block + '_branch'
    bn_name_base = 'bn' + str(stage) + block + '_branch'

    # Retrieve Filters
    F1, F2, F3 = filters

    # Save the input value
    X_shortcut = X


    ##### MAIN PATH #####
    # First component of main path 
    X = Conv2D(F1, (1, 1), strides = (s,s), name = conv_name_base + '2a', kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X)
    X = BatchNormalization(axis = 3, name = bn_name_base + '2a')(X)
    X = Activation('relu')(X)

    ### START CODE HERE ###

    # Second component of main path (≈3 lines)
    X = Conv2D(F2, (f, f), strides = (1,1), name = conv_name_base + '2b', padding = 'same', kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X)
    X = BatchNormalization(axis = 3, name = bn_name_base + '2b')(X)
    X = Activation('relu')(X)

    # Third component of main path (≈2 lines)
    X = Conv2D(F3, (1, 1), strides = (1,1), name = conv_name_base + '2c', kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X)
    X = BatchNormalization(axis = 3, name = bn_name_base + '2c')(X)

    ##### SHORTCUT PATH #### (≈2 lines)
    X_shortcut = Conv2D(F3, (1, 1), strides = (s,s), name = conv_name_base + '1', kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X_shortcut)
    X_shortcut = BatchNormalization(axis = 3, name = bn_name_base + '1')(X_shortcut)

    # Final step: Add shortcut value to main path, and pass it through a RELU activation (≈2 lines)
    X = Add()([X, X_shortcut])
    X = Activation('relu')(X)

    ### END CODE HERE ###

    return X

Building your first ResNet model (50 layers)

You now have the necessary blocks to build a very deep ResNet. The following figure describes in detail the architecture of this neural network. “ID BLOCK” in the diagram stands for “Identity block,” and “ID BLOCK x3” means you should stack 3 identity blocks together.

ResNet-50 model

The details of this ResNet-50 model are:

  • Zero-padding pads the input with a pad of (3,3)
  • Stage 1:
    • The 2D Convolution has 64 filters of shape (7,7) and uses a stride of (2,2). Its name is “conv1”.
    • BatchNorm is applied to the channels axis of the input.
    • MaxPooling uses a (3,3) window and a (2,2) stride.
  • Stage 2:
    • The convolutional block uses three set of filters of size [64,64,256], “f” is 3, “s” is 1 and the block is “a”.
    • The 2 identity blocks use three set of filters of size [64,64,256], “f” is 3 and the blocks are “b” and “c”.
  • Stage 3:
    • The convolutional block uses three set of filters of size [128,128,512], “f” is 3, “s” is 2 and the block is “a”.
    • The 3 identity blocks use three set of filters of size [128,128,512], “f” is 3 and the blocks are “b”, “c” and “d”.
  • Stage 4:
    • The convolutional block uses three set of filters of size [256, 256, 1024], “f” is 3, “s” is 2 and the block is “a”.
    • The 5 identity blocks use three set of filters of size [256, 256, 1024], “f” is 3 and the blocks are “b”, “c”, “d”, “e” and “f”.
  • Stage 5:
    • The convolutional block uses three set of filters of size [512, 512, 2048], “f” is 3, “s” is 2 and the block is “a”.
    • The 2 identity blocks use three set of filters of size [512, 512, 2048], “f” is 3 and the blocks are “b” and “c”.
    • The 2D Average Pooling uses a window of shape (2,2) and its name is “avg_pool”.
    • The flatten doesn’t have any hyperparameters or name.
    • The Fully Connected (Dense) layer reduces its input to the number of classes using a softmax activation. Its name should be ‘fc’ + str(classes).
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# GRADED FUNCTION: ResNet50

def ResNet50(input_shape = (64, 64, 3), classes = 6):
    """
    Implementation of the popular ResNet50 the following architecture:
    CONV2D -> BATCHNORM -> RELU -> MAXPOOL -> CONVBLOCK -> IDBLOCK*2 -> CONVBLOCK -> IDBLOCK*3
    -> CONVBLOCK -> IDBLOCK*5 -> CONVBLOCK -> IDBLOCK*2 -> AVGPOOL -> TOPLAYER

    Arguments:
    input_shape -- shape of the images of the dataset
    classes -- integer, number of classes

    Returns:
    model -- a Model() instance in Keras
    """

    # Define the input as a tensor with shape input_shape
    X_input = Input(input_shape)


    # Zero-Padding
    X = ZeroPadding2D((3, 3))(X_input)

    # Stage 1
    X = Conv2D(64, (7, 7), strides = (2, 2), name = 'conv1', kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X)
    X = BatchNormalization(axis = 3, name = 'bn_conv1')(X)
    X = Activation('relu')(X)
    X = MaxPooling2D((3, 3), strides=(2, 2))(X)

    # Stage 2
    X = convolutional_block(X, f = 3, filters = [64, 64, 256], stage = 2, block='a', s = 1)
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [64, 64, 256], stage=2, block='b')
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [64, 64, 256], stage=2, block='c')

    ### START CODE HERE ###

    # Stage 3 (≈4 lines)
    X = convolutional_block(X, f = 3, filters = [128, 128, 512], stage = 3, block='a', s = 2)
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [128, 128, 512], stage=3, block='b')
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [128, 128, 512], stage=3, block='c')
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [128, 128, 512], stage=3, block='d')

    # Stage 4 (≈6 lines)
    X = convolutional_block(X, f = 3, filters = [256, 256, 1024], stage = 4, block='a', s = 2)
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [256, 256, 1024], stage=4, block='b')
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [256, 256, 1024], stage=4, block='c')
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [256, 256, 1024], stage=4, block='d')
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [256, 256, 1024], stage=4, block='e')
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [256, 256, 1024], stage=4, block='f')

    # Stage 5 (≈3 lines)
    X = convolutional_block(X, f = 3, filters = [512, 512, 2048], stage = 5, block='a', s = 2)
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [512, 512, 2048], stage=5, block='b')
    X = identity_block(X, 3, [512, 512, 2048], stage=5, block='c')

    # AVGPOOL (≈1 line). Use "X = AveragePooling2D(...)(X)"
    X = AveragePooling2D((2, 2), name='avg_pool')(X)

    ### END CODE HERE ###

    # output layer
    X = Flatten()(X)
    X = Dense(classes, activation='softmax', name='fc' + str(classes), kernel_initializer = glorot_uniform(seed=0))(X)


    # Create model
    model = Model(inputs = X_input, outputs = X, name='ResNet50')

    return model


model = ResNet50(input_shape = (64, 64, 3), classes = 6)
model.compile(optimizer='adam', loss='categorical_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])

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