Mixture density networks (MDN) (Bishop, 1994) are a class of models obtained by combining a conventional neural network with a mixture density model.
We demonstrate with an example in Edward. A webpage version is available at http://edwardlib.org/tutorials/mixture-density-network.
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
import edward as ed
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns
import tensorflow as tf
from edward.models import Categorical, Mixture, Normal
from tensorflow.contrib import slim
from scipy import stats
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
def plot_normal_mix(pis, mus, sigmas, ax, label='', comp=True):
"""Plots the mixture of Normal models to axis=ax comp=True plots all
components of mixture model
"""
x = np.linspace(-10.5, 10.5, 250)
final = np.zeros_like(x)
for i, (weight_mix, mu_mix, sigma_mix) in enumerate(zip(pis, mus, sigmas)):
temp = stats.norm.pdf(x, mu_mix, sigma_mix) * weight_mix
final = final + temp
if comp:
ax.plot(x, temp, label='Normal ' + str(i))
ax.plot(x, final, label='Mixture of Normals ' + label)
ax.legend(fontsize=13)
def sample_from_mixture(x, pred_weights, pred_means, pred_std, amount):
"""Draws samples from mixture model.
Returns 2 d array with input X and sample from prediction of mixture model.
"""
samples = np.zeros((amount, 2))
n_mix = len(pred_weights[0])
to_choose_from = np.arange(n_mix)
for j, (weights, means, std_devs) in enumerate(
zip(pred_weights, pred_means, pred_std)):
index = np.random.choice(to_choose_from, p=weights)
samples[j, 1] = np.random.normal(means[index], std_devs[index], size=1)
samples[j, 0] = x[j]
if j == amount - 1:
break
return samples
We use the same toy data from David Ha's blog post, where he explains MDNs. It is an inverse problem where for every input $x_n$ there are multiple outputs $y_n$.
def build_toy_dataset(N):
y_data = np.random.uniform(-10.5, 10.5, N)
r_data = np.random.normal(size=N) # random noise
x_data = np.sin(0.75 * y_data) * 7.0 + y_data * 0.5 + r_data * 1.0
x_data = x_data.reshape((N, 1))
return train_test_split(x_data, y_data, random_state=42)
ed.set_seed(42)
N = 5000 # number of data points
D = 1 # number of features
K = 20 # number of mixture components
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = build_toy_dataset(N)
print("Size of features in training data: {}".format(X_train.shape))
print("Size of output in training data: {}".format(y_train.shape))
print("Size of features in test data: {}".format(X_test.shape))
print("Size of output in test data: {}".format(y_test.shape))
sns.regplot(X_train, y_train, fit_reg=False)
plt.show()
Size of features in training data: (3750, 1) Size of output in training data: (3750,) Size of features in test data: (1250, 1) Size of output in test data: (1250,)
We define TensorFlow placeholders, which will be used to manually feed batches of data during inference. This is one of many ways to train models with data in Edward.
X_ph = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, D])
y_ph = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None])
We use a mixture of 20 normal distributions parameterized by a feedforward network. That is, the membership probabilities and per-component mean and standard deviation are given by the output of a feedforward network.
We leverage TensorFlow Slim to construct neural networks. We specify a three-layer network with 15 hidden units for each hidden layer.
def neural_network(X):
"""loc, scale, logits = NN(x; theta)"""
# 2 hidden layers with 15 hidden units
hidden1 = slim.fully_connected(X, 15)
hidden2 = slim.fully_connected(hidden1, 15)
locs = slim.fully_connected(hidden2, K, activation_fn=None)
scales = slim.fully_connected(hidden2, K, activation_fn=tf.exp)
logits = slim.fully_connected(hidden2, K, activation_fn=None)
return locs, scales, logits
locs, scales, logits = neural_network(X_ph)
cat = Categorical(logits=logits)
components = [Normal(loc=loc, scale=scale) for loc, scale
in zip(tf.unstack(tf.transpose(locs)),
tf.unstack(tf.transpose(scales)))]
y = Mixture(cat=cat, components=components, value=tf.zeros_like(y_ph))
# Note: A bug exists in Mixture which prevents samples from it to have
# a shape of [None]. For now fix it using the value argument, as
# sampling is not necessary for MAP estimation anyways.
Note that we use the Mixture
random variable. It collapses
out the membership assignments for each data point and makes the model
differentiable with respect to all its parameters. It takes a
Categorical
random variable as input—denoting the probability for each
cluster assignment—as well as components
, which is a list of
individual distributions to mix over.
For more background on MDNs, take a look at Christopher Bonnett's blog post or at Bishop (1994).
We use MAP estimation, passing in the model and data set. See this extended tutorial about MAP estimation in Edward
# There are no latent variables to infer. Thus inference is concerned
# with only training model parameters, which are baked into how we
# specify the neural networks.
inference = ed.MAP(data={y: y_ph})
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(5e-3)
inference.initialize(optimizer=optimizer, var_list=tf.trainable_variables())
Here, we will manually control the inference and how data is passed into it at each step. Initialize the algorithm and the TensorFlow variables.
sess = ed.get_session()
tf.global_variables_initializer().run()
Now we train the MDN by calling inference.update()
, passing
in the data. The quantity inference.loss
is the
loss function (negative log-likelihood) at that step of inference. We
also report the loss function on test data by calling
inference.loss
and where we feed test data to the TensorFlow
placeholders instead of training data.
We keep track of the losses under train_loss
and test_loss
.
n_epoch = 1000
train_loss = np.zeros(n_epoch)
test_loss = np.zeros(n_epoch)
for i in range(n_epoch):
info_dict = inference.update(feed_dict={X_ph: X_train, y_ph: y_train})
train_loss[i] = info_dict['loss']
test_loss[i] = sess.run(inference.loss,
feed_dict={X_ph: X_test, y_ph: y_test})
inference.print_progress(info_dict)
1000/1000 [100%] ██████████████████████████████ Elapsed: 21s | Loss: 4948.319
Note a common failure mode when training MDNs is that an individual mixture distribution collapses to a point. This forces the standard deviation of the normal to be close to 0 and produces NaN values. We can prevent this by thresholding the standard deviation if desired.
After training for a number of iterations, we get out the predictions we are interested in from the model: the predicted mixture weights, cluster means, and cluster standard deviations.
To do this, we fetch their values from session, feeding test data
X_test
to the placeholder X_ph
.
pred_weights, pred_means, pred_std = sess.run(
[tf.nn.softmax(logits), locs, scales], feed_dict={X_ph: X_test})
Let's plot the log-likelihood of the training and test data as
functions of the training epoch. The quantity inference.loss
is the total log-likelihood, not the loss per data point. Below we
plot the per-data point log-likelihood by dividing by the size of the
train and test data respectively.
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=1, figsize=(16, 3.5))
plt.plot(np.arange(n_epoch), -test_loss / len(X_test), label='Test')
plt.plot(np.arange(n_epoch), -train_loss / len(X_train), label='Train')
plt.legend(fontsize=20)
plt.xlabel('Epoch', fontsize=15)
plt.ylabel('Log-likelihood', fontsize=15)
plt.show()
We see that it converges after roughly 400 iterations.
Let's look at how individual examples perform. Note that as this is an inverse problem we can't get the answer correct, but we can hope that the truth lies in area where the model has high probability.
In this plot the truth is the vertical grey line while the blue line is the prediction of the mixture density network. As you can see, we didn't do too bad.
obj = [0, 4, 6]
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=1, figsize=(16, 6))
plot_normal_mix(pred_weights[obj][0], pred_means[obj][0],
pred_std[obj][0], axes[0], comp=False)
axes[0].axvline(x=y_test[obj][0], color='black', alpha=0.5)
plot_normal_mix(pred_weights[obj][2], pred_means[obj][2],
pred_std[obj][2], axes[1], comp=False)
axes[1].axvline(x=y_test[obj][2], color='black', alpha=0.5)
plot_normal_mix(pred_weights[obj][1], pred_means[obj][1],
pred_std[obj][1], axes[2], comp=False)
axes[2].axvline(x=y_test[obj][1], color='black', alpha=0.5)
plt.show()
We can check the ensemble by drawing samples of the prediction and plotting the density of those. The MDN has learned what we'd like it to learn.
a = sample_from_mixture(X_test, pred_weights, pred_means,
pred_std, amount=len(X_test))
sns.jointplot(a[:, 0], a[:, 1], kind="hex", color="#4CB391",
ylim=(-10, 10), xlim=(-14, 14))
plt.show()
We thank Christopher Bonnett for writing the initial version of this tutorial. More generally, we thank Chris for pushing forward momentum to have Edward tutorials be accessible and easy-to-learn.