This class offers methods for the usage of the improved Resilient-Backpropagation-algorithm without weight-backtracking. More...
#include <shark/Algorithms/GradientDescent/Rprop.h>
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SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL | IRpropMinus () |
std::string | name () const |
From INameable: return the class name. More... | |
SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL void | step (ObjectiveFunctionType const &objectiveFunction) |
Carry out one step of the optimizer for the supplied objective function. More... | |
Public Member Functions inherited from shark::RpropMinus | |
SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL | RpropMinus () |
SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL void | init (ObjectiveFunctionType const &objectiveFunction, SearchPointType const &startingPoint) |
initializes the optimizer using a predefined starting point More... | |
virtual SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL void | init (ObjectiveFunctionType const &objectiveFunction, SearchPointType const &startingPoint, double initDelta) |
virtual SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL void | read (InArchive &archive) |
Read the component from the supplied archive. More... | |
virtual SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL void | write (OutArchive &archive) const |
Write the component to the supplied archive. More... | |
void | setEtaMinus (double etaMinus) |
set decrease factor More... | |
void | setEtaPlus (double etaPlus) |
set increase factor More... | |
void | setMaxDelta (double d) |
set upper limit on update More... | |
void | setMinDelta (double d) |
set lower limit on update More... | |
double | maxDelta () const |
return the maximal step size component More... | |
RealVector const & | derivative () const |
Returns the derivative at the current point. Can be used for stopping criteria. More... | |
Public Member Functions inherited from shark::AbstractSingleObjectiveOptimizer< RealVector > | |
std::size_t | numInitPoints () const |
By default most single objective optimizers only require a single point. More... | |
virtual void | init (ObjectiveFunctionType const &function, std::vector< SearchPointType > const &initPoints) |
Initialize the optimizer for the supplied objective function using a set of initialisation points. More... | |
virtual const SolutionType & | solution () const |
returns the current solution of the optimizer More... | |
Public Member Functions inherited from shark::AbstractOptimizer< RealVector, double, SingleObjectiveResultSet< RealVector > > | |
const Features & | features () const |
virtual void | updateFeatures () |
bool | requiresValue () const |
bool | requiresFirstDerivative () const |
bool | requiresSecondDerivative () const |
bool | canSolveConstrained () const |
bool | requiresClosestFeasible () const |
virtual | ~AbstractOptimizer () |
virtual void | init (ObjectiveFunctionType const &function) |
Initialize the optimizer for the supplied objective function. More... | |
Public Member Functions inherited from shark::INameable | |
virtual | ~INameable () |
Public Member Functions inherited from shark::ISerializable | |
virtual | ~ISerializable () |
Virtual d'tor. More... | |
void | load (InArchive &archive, unsigned int version) |
Versioned loading of components, calls read(...). More... | |
void | save (OutArchive &archive, unsigned int version) const |
Versioned storing of components, calls write(...). More... | |
BOOST_SERIALIZATION_SPLIT_MEMBER () | |
Additional Inherited Members | |
Public Types inherited from shark::AbstractSingleObjectiveOptimizer< RealVector > | |
typedef base_type::SearchPointType | SearchPointType |
typedef base_type::SolutionType | SolutionType |
typedef base_type::ResultType | ResultType |
typedef base_type::ObjectiveFunctionType | ObjectiveFunctionType |
Public Types inherited from shark::AbstractOptimizer< RealVector, double, SingleObjectiveResultSet< RealVector > > | |
enum | Feature |
Models features that the optimizer requires from the objective function. More... | |
typedef RealVector | SearchPointType |
typedef double | ResultType |
typedef SingleObjectiveResultSet< RealVector > | SolutionType |
typedef AbstractObjectiveFunction< RealVector, ResultType > | ObjectiveFunctionType |
typedef TypedFlags< Feature > | Features |
typedef TypedFeatureNotAvailableException< Feature > | FeatureNotAvailableException |
Protected Member Functions inherited from shark::AbstractOptimizer< RealVector, double, SingleObjectiveResultSet< RealVector > > | |
void | checkFeatures (ObjectiveFunctionType const &objectiveFunction) |
Convenience function that checks whether the features of the supplied objective function match with the required features of the optimizer. More... | |
Protected Attributes inherited from shark::RpropMinus | |
ObjectiveFunctionType::FirstOrderDerivative | m_derivative |
double | m_increaseFactor |
The increase factor \( \eta^+ \), set to 1.2 by default. More... | |
double | m_decreaseFactor |
The decrease factor \( \eta^- \), set to 0.5 by default. More... | |
double | m_maxDelta |
The upper limit of the increments \( \Delta w_i^{(t)} \), set to 1e100 by default. More... | |
double | m_minDelta |
The lower limit of the increments \( \Delta w_i^{(t)} \), set to 0.0 by default. More... | |
size_t | m_parameterSize |
RealVector | m_oldDerivative |
The last error gradient. More... | |
RealVector | m_delta |
The absolute update values (increment) for all weights. More... | |
Protected Attributes inherited from shark::AbstractSingleObjectiveOptimizer< RealVector > | |
SolutionType | m_best |
Current solution of the optimizer. More... | |
Protected Attributes inherited from shark::AbstractOptimizer< RealVector, double, SingleObjectiveResultSet< RealVector > > | |
Features | m_features |
This class offers methods for the usage of the improved Resilient-Backpropagation-algorithm without weight-backtracking.
The Rprop algorithm is an improvement of the algorithms with adaptive learning rates (as the Adaptive Backpropagation algorithm by Silva and Ameida, please see AdpBP.h for a description of the working of such an algorithm), that uses increments for the update of the weights, that are independent from the absolute partial derivatives. This makes sense, because large flat regions in the search space (plateaus) lead to small absolute partial derivatives and so the increments are chosen small, but the increments should be large to skip the plateau. In contrast, the absolute partial derivatives are very large at the "slopes" of very "narrow canyons", which leads to large increments that will skip the minimum lying at the bottom of the canyon, but it would make more sense to chose small increments to hit the minimum.
So, the Rprop algorithm only uses the signs of the partial derivatives and not the absolute values to adapt the parameters.
Instead of individual learning rates, it uses the parameter \(\Delta_i^{(t)}\) for weight \(w_i,\ i = 1, \dots, n\) in iteration \(t\), where the parameter will be adapted before the change of the weights.
As an improving modification, this algorithm adapts the "freezing" of the increment in the next iteration as usually only practiced by the Rprop algorithm with weight-backtracking (see RpropPlus), i.e. \(\frac{\partial E^{(t)}}{\partial w_i} := 0\). Tests have shown a far more better optimization when using this modification. So the new adaptation rule of \(\Delta\) is given as:
\( \Delta_i^{(t)} = \Bigg\{ \begin{array}{ll} min( \eta^+ \cdot \Delta_i^{(t-1)}, \Delta_{max} ), & \mbox{if\ } \frac{\partial E^{(t-1)}}{\partial w_i} \cdot \frac{\partial E^{(t)}}{\partial w_i} > 0 \\ max( \eta^- \cdot \Delta_i^{(t-1)}, \Delta_{min} ); \frac{\partial E^{(t)}}{\partial w_i} := 0, & \mbox{if\ } \frac{\partial E^{(t-1)}}{\partial w_i} \cdot \frac{\partial E^{(t)}}{\partial w_i} < 0 \\ \Delta_i^{(t-1)}, & \mbox{otherwise} \end{array} \)
The parameters \(\eta^+ > 1\) and \(0 < \eta^- < 1\) control the speed of the adaptation. To stabilize the increments, they are restricted to the interval \([\Delta_{min}, \Delta_{max}]\).
After the adaptation of the \(\Delta_i\) the update for the weights will be calculated as
\( \Delta w_i^{(t)} := - \mbox{sign} \left( \frac{\partial E^{(t)}}{\partial w_i}\right) \cdot \Delta_i^{(t)} \)
For further information about the algorithm, please refer to:
Christian Igel and Michael Hüsken,
"Empirical Evaluation of the Improved Rprop Learning Algorithm".
In Neurocomputing Journal, 2002, in press
SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL shark::IRpropMinus::IRpropMinus | ( | ) |
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From INameable: return the class name.
Reimplemented from shark::RpropMinus.
Definition at line 523 of file Rprop.h.
References SHARK_EXPORT_SYMBOL, and shark::RpropMinus::step().
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Carry out one step of the optimizer for the supplied objective function.
[in] | function | The objective function to initialize for. |
Reimplemented from shark::RpropMinus.