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rmsprop

Builtin index · Statistics & ML

result = rmsprop(params, [lr=0.001])

Input: params, lr · Output: result

What it is

Per-parameter learning rates derived from the running gradient history, given params (a Tensor to optimize) and lr (a number, default 0.001). adagrad accumulates the full gradient history and so its effective rate only shrinks over time; rmsprop and adadelta use a decaying average instead, so they keep adapting late in training.

Overloads

One call shape — this function is not overloaded.

CodeInputOutputDescription
result = rmsprop(params, [lr=0.001])
params numbernot documented yet
lr number, optional (default 0.001)not documented yet
result Record
Returns an optimizer Record, or a recipe Record when called with no params.

Examples

From the documentation, and run by the build -- the output and the figure below are what the engine actually produced. Simplest first.

x = [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]
y_true = [2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0]
w = param(0.0)
function loss_fn(w)
    pred = w * x
    diff = pred - y_true
    return mean(diff .^ 2)
end function
opt = sgd(w, 0.01)
losses = train_loop("loss_fn", w, 100, optimizer = "opt")
print("train_loop (sgd): loss {round(losses[0], 3)} -> {round(losses[99], 5)}")
tape_reset()

w2v = 0.0
opt2 = adam(param(w2v), lr = 0.1)
for t = 0 to 19
    tape_reset()
    w2 = param(w2v)
    pred = w2 * x
    loss2 = mean((pred - y_true) .^ 2)
    g = grad(loss2, wrt = w2)
    opt2 = optimizer_step(opt2, g)
    w2v = opt2._params[0]
end for
print("optimizer_step (adam): w -> {round(w2v, 4)} (target 2.0)")
tape_reset()

# One step each from w=1.0, grad=3.0 -- same optimizer_step(opt, grad) call.

w3 = param(1.0)
grad3 = [3.0]
r1 = optimizer_step(nesterov_sgd(w3, lr = 0.05, momentum = 0.9), grad3)
r2 = optimizer_step(adamw(w3, lr = 0.05), grad3)
r3 = optimizer_step(nadam(w3, lr = 0.05), grad3)
r4 = optimizer_step(adamax(w3, lr = 0.05), grad3)
r5 = optimizer_step(rmsprop(w3, lr = 0.05), grad3)
r6 = optimizer_step(adagrad(w3, lr = 0.05), grad3)
r7 = optimizer_step(adadelta(w3), grad3)
print("nesterov_sgd -> {round(r1._params[0], 4)}, adamw -> {round(r2._params[0], 4)}, nadam -> {round(r3._params[0], 4)}")
print("adamax -> {round(r4._params[0], 4)}, rmsprop -> {round(r5._params[0], 4)}, adagrad -> {round(r6._params[0], 4)}, adadelta -> {round(r7._params[0], 4)}")

Xxor = [0.0, 0.0; 0.0, 1.0; 1.0, 0.0; 1.0, 1.0]
Yxor = [0.0; 1.0; 1.0; 2.0]
net = input(2) |> dense(4, activation = "relu") |> dense(1, activation = "none") |>
      compile(optimizer = lr_plateau(lr = 0.1, patience = 5, base = "adam"), loss = "mse", seed = 7)
net = net.fit(Xxor, Yxor, epochs = 60)
n = length(net.loss_history)
print("compile + fit(lr_plateau): loss {round(net.loss_history[0], 4)} -> {round(net.loss_history[n - 1], 4)}")

net2 = input(2) |> dense(4, activation = "relu") |> dense(1, activation = "none") |>
       compile(optimizer = lr_adaptive(lr = 0.05), loss = "mse", seed = 7)
net2 = net2.fit(Xxor, Yxor, epochs = 60)
n2 = length(net2.loss_history)
print("compile + fit(lr_adaptive): loss {round(net2.loss_history[0], 4)} -> {round(net2.loss_history[n2 - 1], 4)}")

quick = quick_mlp(Xxor, Yxor, seed = 3)
nq = length(quick.loss_history)
print("quick_mlp: loss {round(quick.loss_history[0], 4)} -> {round(quick.loss_history[nq - 1], 4)}")
output
train_loop (sgd): loss 30 -> 0
optimizer_step (adam): w -> 1.7775 (target 2.0)
nesterov_sgd -> 0.715, adamw -> 0.9495, nadam -> 0.9263
adamax -> 0.95, rmsprop -> 0.8419, adagrad -> 0.95, adadelta -> 0.9996
compile + fit(lr_plateau): loss 3.3387 -> 0.0341
compile + fit(lr_adaptive): loss 0.3897 -> 0.0002
quick_mlp: loss 3.1877 -> 0.0922

from statistics-ml

See also

adagrad, adadelta — documented in the same entry.