XShinnosuke : Deep Learning Framework

Descriptions

XShinnosuke is a high-level neural network framework which supports for both Dynamic Graph and Static Graph, and has almost the same API to Keras and Pytorch with slightly differences. It was written by Python only, and dedicated to realize experimentations quickly.

Here are some features of XShinnosuke:

1. Based on Cupy(GPU version)/Numpy and native to Python.
2. Without any other 3rd-party deep learning library.
3. Keras and Pytorch style API, easy to start.
4. Supports commonly used layers such as: Dense, Conv2D, MaxPooling2D, LSTM, SimpleRNN, etc, and commonly used function: conv2d, max_pool2d, relu, etc.
5. Sequential in Pytorch and Keras, Model in Keras and Module in Pytorch, all of them are supported by xshinnosuke.
6. Training and inference supports for both dynamic graph and static graph.
7. Autograd is supported .

XShinnosuke is compatible with: Python 3.x (3.7 is recommended) ==> C++ version

1. API docs 2. Notebook

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Getting started

Here are some demos~

1. ResNet18 with Dynamic Graph

2. ResNet18 with Static Graph

3. Autograd

4. Gobang

   

5. 2048

   

6. MNIST

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1. Static Graph

The core networks of XShinnosuke is a model, which provide a way to combine layers. There are two model types: Sequential (a linear stack of layers) and Functional (build a graph for layers).

For Sequential model:

from xshinnosuke.models import Sequential

model = Sequential()

Using .add() to connect layers:

from xshinnosuke.layers import Dense

model.add(Dense(out_features=500, activation='relu', input_shape=(784, )))  # must be specify input_shape if current layer is the first layer of model
model.add(Dense(out_features=10))

Once you have constructed your model, you should configure it with .compile() before training or inference:

model.compile(loss='sparse_crossentropy', optimizer='sgd')

If your labels are one-hot encoded vectors/matrix, you shall specify loss as sparse_crossentropy, otherwise use crossentropy instead.

Use print(model) to see details of model:

***************************************************************************
Layer(type)               Output Shape         Param      Connected to   
###########################################################################
dense0 (Dense)            (None, 500)          392500     
              
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
dense1 (Dense)            (None, 10)           5010       dense0         
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
***************************************************************************
Total params: 397510
Trainable params: 397510
Non-trainable params: 0

Start training your network by fit():

# trainX and trainy are Cupy ndarray
history = model.fit(trainX, trainy, batch_size=128, epochs=5)

Once completing training your model, you can save or load your model by save() / load(), respectively.

model.save(save_path)
model.load(model_path)

Evaluate your model performance by evaluate():

# testX and testy are Cupy/Numpy ndarray
accuracy, loss = model.evaluate(testX, testy, batch_size=128)

Inference through predict():

predict = model.predict(testX)

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For Functional model:

Combine your layers by functional API:

from xshinnosuke.models import Model
from xshinnosuke.layers import Input, Conv2D, MaxPooling2D, Flatten, Dense

X_input = Input(input_shape = (1, 28, 28))   # (channels, height, width)
X = Conv2D(8, (2, 2), activation='relu')(X_input)
X = MaxPooling2D((2, 2))(X)
X = Flatten()(X)
X = Dense(10)(X)
model = Model(inputs=X_input, outputs=X)  
model.compile(optimizer='sgd', loss='sparse_cross_entropy')
model.fit(trainX, trainy, batch_size=256, epochs=80)

Pass inputs and outputs layer to Model(), then compile and fit model as Sequentialmodel.

2. Dynamic Graph

First design your own network, make sure your network is inherited from Module and override the __init__() and forward() function:

from xshinnosuke.models import Module
from xshinnosuke.layers import Conv2D, ReLU, Flatten, Dense
import xshinnosuke.nn.functional as F

class MyNet(Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.conv1 = Conv2D(out_channels=8, kernel_size=3)
        self.relu = ReLU(inplace=True)
        self.flat = Flatten()
        self.fc = Dense(10)

    def forward(self, x, *args):
        x = self.conv1(x)
        x = self.relu(x)
        x = F.max_pool2d(x, kernel_size=2)
        x = self.flat(x)
        x = self.fc(x)
        return x

Then manually set the training/ testing flow:

from xshinnosuke.nn.optimizers import SGD
from xshinnosuke.utils import DataSet, DataLoader
from xshinnosuke.nn import CrossEntropy
import cupy as np

# random generate data
X = np.random.randn(100, 3, 12, 12)
Y = np.random.randint(0, 10, (100, ))
# generate training dataloader
train_dataset = DataSet(X, Y)
train_loader = DataLoader(dataset=train_dataset, batch_size=10, shuffle=True)
# initialize net
net = MyNet()
# specify optimizer and critetion
optimizer = SGD(net.parameters())
critetion = CrossEntropy()
# start training
EPOCH = 5
for epoch in range(EPOCH):
    for x, y in train_loader:
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        out = net(x)
        loss = critetion(out, y)
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()
        train_acc = critetion.calc_acc(out, y)
        print(f'epoch -> {epoch}, train_acc: {train_acc}, train_loss: {loss.data}')

Building an image classification model, a question answering system or any other model is just as convenient and fast~

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Autograd

Xshinnosuke's autograd supports for basic operators such as: +, -, *, \, **, etc and some common functions: matmul(), mean(), sum(), log(), view(), etc .

from xshinnosuke.nn import Variable

a = Variable(5)
b = Variable(10)
c = Variable(3)
x = (a + b) * c
y = x ** 2
print('x: ', x)  # x:  Variable(45.0, requires_grad=True, grad_fn=<MultiplyBackward>)
print('y: ', y)  # y:  Variable(2025.0, requires_grad=True, grad_fn=<PowBackward>)
x.retain_grad()
y.backward()
print('x grad:', x.grad)  # x grad: 90.0
print('c grad:', c.grad)  # c grad: 1350.0
print('b grad:', b.grad)  # b grad: 270.0
print('a grad:', a.grad)  # a grad: 270.0

Here are examples of autograd.

Installation

Before installing XShinnosuke, please install the following dependencies:

• Numpy

• Cupy = 6.0.0 (Optional, if installed, Xshinnosuke will use this to speed up)

notice that cupy requires **Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0**

Then you can install XShinnosuke by using pip:

$ pip install xshinnosuke

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Supports

functional

• dense
• relu
• flatten
• conv2d
• max_pool2d
• avg_pool2d
• reshape
• sigmoid
• tanh
• dropout2d
• batchnorm2d
• groupnorm2d
• layernorm
• pad_2d
• embedding

Two basic class:

- Layer:

• Dense
• Flatten
• Conv2D
• MaxPooling2D
• AvgPooling2D
• ChannelMaxPooling
• ChannelAvgPooling
• Activation
• Input
• Dropout
• Batch Normalization
• Layer Normalization
• Group Normalization
• TimeDistributed
• SimpleRNN
• LSTM
• Embedding
• ZeroPadding2D
• Add
• Multiply
• Matmul
• Log
• Negative
• Exp
• Sum
• Abs
• Mean
• Pow

- Node:

• Variable
• Constant

Optimizers

• SGD
• Momentum
• RMSprop
• AdaGrad
• AdaDelta
• Adam

Waiting for implemented more

Objectives

• MeanSquaredError
• MeanAbsoluteError
• BinaryCrossEntropy
• SparseCrossEntropy
• CrossEntropy

Activations

• Relu
• Linear
• Sigmoid
• Tanh
• Softmax

Initializations

• Zeros
• Ones
• Uniform
• LecunUniform
• GlorotUniform
• HeUniform
• Normal
• LecunNormal
• GlorotNormal
• HeNormal
• Orthogonal

Regularizes

waiting for implement.

Preprocess

• to_categorical (convert inputs to one-hot vector/matrix)
• pad_sequences (pad sequences to the same length)

Contact

• Email: [email protected]