Training MNIST LeNet on MNIST with Caffe

(1) 准备数据

 cd $CAFFE_ROOT
./data/mnist/get_mnist.sh
./examples/mnist/create_mnist.sh

从MNIST网站上下载数据,并且将数据转换成caffe可以识别的数据.然后,即得到两个数据集 mnist_train_lmdb, and mnist_test_lmdb.

(2) 定义MNIST网络

该网络定义在 lenet_train_test.prototxt 中.关于caffe中protobuf的定义, $CAFFE_ROOT/src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto中有详细解释.
首先,网络名称
name: "LeNet"
Data Layer

layer {
  name: "mnist"
  type: "Data"
  data_param {
    source: "mnist_train_lmdb"
    backend: LMDB
    batch_size: 64
    scale: 0.00390625
  }
  top: "data"
  top: "label"
}

scale主要是为了归一化,使像素值在[0 1]之间,1/256 约等于0.00390625.
Convolution Layer

layer {
  name: "conv1"
  type: "Convolution"
  param { lr_mult: 1 }
  param { lr_mult: 2 }
  convolution_param {
    num_output: 20
    kernel_size: 5
    stride: 1
    weight_filler {
      type: "xavier"
    }
    bias_filler {
      type: "constant"
    }
  }
  bottom: "data"
  top: "conv1"
}

输出20channels(feature map),卷积的kernel size 为5 and stride 为1.filters的参数可以随机产生.对于weight_filler, 用的是xavier算法. bias filler初始为constant,默认为0.lr_mults是学习率, weight learning rate 跟运行时的学习率一样,bias learning rate 一般是两倍.
Pooling Layer

layer {
  name: "pool1"
  type: "Pooling"
  pooling_param {
    kernel_size: 2
    stride: 2
    pool: MAX
  }
  bottom: "conv1"
  top: "pool1"
}

**

layer {
  name: "ip1"
  type: "InnerProduct"
  param { lr_mult: 1 }
  param { lr_mult: 2 }
  inner_product_param {
    num_output: 500
    weight_filler {
      type: "xavier"
    }
    bias_filler {
      type: "constant"
    }
  }
  bottom: "pool2"
  top: "ip1"
}

fully connected layer 在caffe里面通常被称为InnerProduct layer
ReLU Layer

layer {
  name: "relu1"
  type: "ReLU"
  bottom: "ip1"
  top: "ip1"
}

ReLU Layer 后会再接一个innerproduct layer

layer {
  name: "ip2"
  type: "InnerProduct"
  param { lr_mult: 1 }
  param { lr_mult: 2 }
  inner_product_param {
    num_output: 10
    weight_filler {
      type: "xavier"
    }
    bias_filler {
      type: "constant"
    }
  }
  bottom: "ip1"
  top: "ip2"
}

Loss Layer

layer {
  name: "loss"
  type: "SoftmaxWithLoss"
  bottom: "ip2"
  bottom: "label"
}

(3) MNIST Solver

定义在 $CAFFE_ROOT/examples/mnist/lenet_solver.prototxt:

# The train/test net protocol buffer definition
net: "examples/mnist/lenet_train_test.prototxt"
# test_iter specifies how many forward passes the test should carry out.
# In the case of MNIST, we have test batch size 100 and 100 test iterations,
# covering the full 10,000 testing images.
test_iter: 100
# Carry out testing every 500 training iterations.
test_interval: 500
# The base learning rate, momentum and the weight decay of the network.
base_lr: 0.01
momentum: 0.9
weight_decay: 0.0005
# The learning rate policy
lr_policy: "inv"
gamma: 0.0001
power: 0.75
# Display every 100 iterations
display: 100
# The maximum number of iterations
max_iter: 10000
# snapshot intermediate results
snapshot: 5000
snapshot_prefix: "examples/mnist/lenet"
# solver mode: CPU or GPU
solver_mode: GPU

(4) training and test the model

cd $CAFFE_ROOT
./examples/mnist/train_lenet.sh
train_lenet.sh 就是一个简单的脚本

./build/tools/caffe train --solver=examples/mnist/lenet_solver.prototxt

最后,model存在
lenet_iter_10000

references

http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/gathered/examples/mnist.html