I was training a dataset, contain 3000 images using resnet and lstm, but the model just got overfiting in epoch 5. Does the small dataset affect the number of epoch?
What are the factors that affect the number of epochs for data trained using transfer learning? Is there a paper that discusses it?
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Why is the accuracy on train dataset not always 100% while we use the same dataset to train the model?
Though tree-based ML algorithms give us 100% accuracy on train dataset many times, but why is this not happening every time. I know this results in overfitting but why not 100% accuracy every time on the dataset using which our model is trained?
I develop a simple autoencoder and to find the right parameters I use a grid search on a small subset of dataset. The number of epochs in output can be used on the training set with higher dimension? The number of epochs depends on the dimension of dataset? or not? E.g. I have much more epochs in a dataset with a big dimension and a lower number of epochs for a small dataset
In general yes, the number of epochs will change if the dataset is bigger.
The number of epochs should not be decided a-priori. You should run the training and monitor the training and validation losses over time and stop training when the validation loss reaches a plateau or start increasing. This technique is called "early stopping" and is a good practice in machine learning.
I'm working on relation classification with the SemEval2010 Task 8 dataset. The dataset is already split into 8'000 samples for the training and 2'717 for the testing. In order to be as fair as possible, I use only my model at the end to computing its performance (F1-Score).
In order to tune my convolutional neural networks, I keep 6'400 samples for the training and 1'600 for the validation. I train the model and after each epoch (~10' of computation) I compute the F1-Score of my predictions.
I read the paper http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/stop_tricks1997.pdf and stop training when the last 3 performances were increasing (similar to UP in the paper). In the paper, they return the model corresponding to the best performance seen so far.
My question is : in order to be as accurate as possible, we need the whole 8'000 samples for the training. Is it correct to say we will train until the epoch which had the best performance on the validation set and then do the predictions ? Or should we save the model corresponding to the best performance and "waste" 1'600 samples ?
while I'm reading in how to build ANN in pybrain, they say:
Train the network for some epochs. Usually you would set something
like 5 here,
trainer.trainEpochs( 1 )
I looked for what is that mean , then I conclude that we use an epoch of data to update weights, If I choose to train the data with 5 epochs as pybrain advice, the dataset will be divided into 5 subsets, and the wights will update 5 times as maximum.
I'm familiar with online training where the wights are updated after each sample data or feature vector, My question is how to be sure that 5 epochs will be enough to build a model and setting the weights probably? what is the advantage of this way on online training? Also the term "epoch" is used on online training, does it mean one feature vector?
One epoch consists of one full training cycle on the training set. Once every sample in the set is seen, you start again - marking the beginning of the 2nd epoch.
This has nothing to do with batch or online training per se. Batch means that you update once at the end of the epoch (after every sample is seen, i.e. #epoch updates) and online that you update after each sample (#samples * #epoch updates).
You can't be sure if 5 epochs or 500 is enough for convergence since it will vary from data to data. You can stop training when the error converges or gets lower than a certain threshold. This also goes into the territory of preventing overfitting. You can read up on early stopping and cross-validation regarding that.
sorry for reactivating this thread.
im new to neural nets and im investigating the impact of 'mini-batch' training.
so far, as i understand it, an epoch (as runDOSrun is saying) is a through use of all in the TrainingSet (not DataSet. because DataSet = TrainingSet + ValidationSet). in mini batch training, you can sub divide the TrainingSet into small Sets and update weights inside an epoch. 'hopefully' this would make the network 'converge' faster.
some definitions of neural networks are outdated and, i guess, must be redefined.
The number of epochs is a hyperparameter that defines the number times that the learning algorithm will work through the entire training dataset. One epoch means that each sample in the training dataset has had an opportunity to update the internal model parameters.
I have been working on the Sentiment analysis prediction using the Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews dataset.
The dataset has 5 classes {0,1,2,3,4} where 0 being very negative and 4 being very positive
The dataset is highly unbalanced,
total samples = 156061
'0': 7072 (4.5%),
'1': 27273 (17.4%),
'2': 79583 (50.9%),
'3': 32927 (21%),
'4': 9206 (5.8%)
as you can see class 2 has almost 50% samples and 0 and 5 contribute to ~10% of training set
So there is a very strong bias for class 2 thus reducing the accuracy of classification for class 0 and 4.
What can I do to balance the dataset? One solution would be to get equal number of samples by reducing the samples to only 7072 for each class, but it reduces the dataset drastically!
How can I optimize and balance the dataset without affecting the accuracy of overall classification?
You should not balance the dataset, you should train a classifier in a balanced manner. Nearly all existing classifiers can be trained with some cost sensitive objective. For example - SVMs let you "weight" your samples, simply weight samples of the smaller class more. Similarly Naive Bayes has classes priors - change them! Random forest, Neural networks, Logistic regression, they all let you somehow "weight" samples, it is the core technique for getting more balanced results.
For classification problems, you can try class_weight='balanced' option in your estimator, such as Logistic, SVM, etc. For example:
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.linear_model.LogisticRegression.html#sklearn.linear_model.LogisticRegression