簡介
變分自編碼器(Variational Autoencoder,VAE)是生成式模型(Generative Model)的一種,另一種常見的生成式模型是生成式對抗網絡(Generative Adversarial Network,GAN)
這裏我們介紹下VAE的原理,並用Keras實現
原理
我們經常會有這樣的需求:根據很多個樣本,學會生成新的樣本
以MNIST爲例,在看過幾千張手寫數字圖片之後,我們能進行模仿,並生成一些類似的圖片,這些圖片在原始數據中並不存在,有一些變化但是看起來相似
換言之,需要學會數據x的分佈,這樣,根據數據的分佈就能輕鬆地產生新樣本
但數據分佈的估計不是件容易的事情,尤其是當數據量不足的時候
可以使用一個隱變量z,由z經過一個複雜的映射得到x,並且假設z服從高斯分佈
因此只需要學習隱變量所服從高斯分佈的參數,以及映射函數,即可得到原始數據的分佈
爲了學習隱變量所服從高斯分佈的參數,需要得到z足夠多的樣本
然而z的樣本並不能直接獲得,因此還需要一個映射函數(條件概率分佈),從已有的x樣本中得到對應的z樣本
這看起來和自編碼器很相似,從數據本身,經編碼得到隱層表示,經解碼還原
但VAE和AE的區別如下:
- AE中隱層表示的分佈未知,而VAE中隱變量服從高斯分佈
- AE中學習的是encoder和decoder,VAE中還學習了隱變量的分佈,包括高斯分佈的均值和方差
- AE只能從一個x,得到對應的重構x
- VAE可以產生新的z,從而得到新的x,即生成新的樣本
損失函數
除了重構誤差,由於在VAE中我們假設隱變量z服從高斯分佈,因此encoder對應的條件概率分佈,應當和高斯分佈儘可能相似
可以用相對熵,又稱作KL散度(Kullback–Leibler Divergence),來衡量兩個分佈的差異,或者說距離,但相對熵是非對稱的
實現
這裏以MNIST爲例,學習隱變量z所服從高斯分佈的均值和方差兩個參數,從而可以從新的z生成原始數據中沒有的x
encoder和decoder各用兩層全連接層,簡單一些,主要爲了說明VAE的實現
加載庫
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from keras.layers import Input, Dense, Lambda
from keras.models import Model
from keras import backend as K
from keras import objectives
from keras.datasets import mnist
定義一些常數
batch_size = 100
original_dim = 784
intermediate_dim = 256
latent_dim = 2
epochs = 50
encoder部分,兩層全連接層,隱層表示包括均值和方差
x = Input(shape=(original_dim,))
h = Dense(intermediate_dim, activation='relu')(x)
z_mean = Dense(latent_dim)(h)
z_log_var = Dense(latent_dim)(h)
Lambda
層不參與訓練,只參與計算,用於後面產生新的z
def sampling(args):
z_mean, z_log_var = args
epsilon = K.random_normal(shape=(batch_size, latent_dim), mean=0.)
return z_mean + K.exp(z_log_var / 2) * epsilon
z = Lambda(sampling, output_shape=(latent_dim,))([z_mean, z_log_var])
decoder部分,兩層全連接層,x_decoded_mean
爲重構的輸出
decoder_h = Dense(intermediate_dim, activation='relu')
decoder_mean = Dense(original_dim, activation='sigmoid')
h_decoded = decoder_h(z)
x_decoded_mean = decoder_mean(h_decoded)
自定義總的損失函數並編譯模型
def vae_loss(x, x_decoded_mean):
xent_loss = original_dim * objectives.binary_crossentropy(x, x_decoded_mean)
kl_loss = -0.5 * K.sum(1 + z_log_var - K.square(z_mean) - K.exp(z_log_var), axis=-1)
return xent_loss + kl_loss
vae = Model(x, x_decoded_mean)
vae.compile(optimizer='rmsprop', loss=vae_loss)
加載數據並訓練,CPU訓練的速度還算能忍
(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = mnist.load_data()
x_train = x_train.astype('float32') / 255.
x_test = x_test.astype('float32') / 255.
x_train = x_train.reshape((len(x_train), np.prod(x_train.shape[1:])))
x_test = x_test.reshape((len(x_test), np.prod(x_test.shape[1:])))
vae.fit(x_train, x_train,
shuffle=True,
epochs=epochs,
batch_size=batch_size,
validation_data=(x_test, x_test))
定義一個encoder,看看MNIST中的數據在隱層中變成了什麼樣子
encoder = Model(x, z_mean)
x_test_encoded = encoder.predict(x_test, batch_size=batch_size)
plt.figure(figsize=(6, 6))
plt.scatter(x_test_encoded[:, 0], x_test_encoded[:, 1], c=y_test)
plt.colorbar()
plt.show()
結果如下,說明在二維的隱層中,不同的數字被很好地分開了
再定義一個生成器,從隱層到輸出,用於產生新的樣本
decoder_input = Input(shape=(latent_dim,))
_h_decoded = decoder_h(decoder_input)
_x_decoded_mean = decoder_mean(_h_decoded)
generator = Model(decoder_input, _x_decoded_mean)
用網格化的方法產生一些二維數據,作爲新的z輸入到生成器,並將生成的x展示出來
n = 20
digit_size = 28
figure = np.zeros((digit_size * n, digit_size * n))
grid_x = np.linspace(-4, 4, n)
grid_y = np.linspace(-4, 4, n)
for i, xi in enumerate(grid_x):
for j, yi in enumerate(grid_y):
z_sample = np.array([[yi, xi]])
x_decoded = generator.predict(z_sample)
digit = x_decoded[0].reshape(digit_size, digit_size)
figure[(n - i - 1) * digit_size: (n - i) * digit_size,
j * digit_size: (j + 1) * digit_size] = digit
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 10))
plt.imshow(figure)
plt.show()
結果如下,和之前看到的隱層圖是一致的,甚至能看到一些數字之間的過渡態
由於包含一些隨機因素,所以每次生成的結果會存在一些差異
如果將全連接層換成CNN,應該可以得到更好的表示結果
拓展
掌握以上內容後,用相同的方法,可以在FashionMNIST這個數據集上再跑一遍,數據集規模和MNIST完全相同
只需改動四行即可
from keras.datasets import fashion_mnist
(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = fashion_mnist.load_data()
grid_x = np.linspace(-3, 3, n)
grid_y = np.linspace(-3, 3, n)
完整代碼如下
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from keras.layers import Input, Dense, Lambda
from keras.models import Model
from keras import backend as K
from keras import objectives
from keras.datasets import fashion_mnist
batch_size = 100
original_dim = 784
intermediate_dim = 256
latent_dim = 2
epochs = 50
x = Input(shape=(original_dim,))
h = Dense(intermediate_dim, activation='relu')(x)
z_mean = Dense(latent_dim)(h)
z_log_var = Dense(latent_dim)(h)
def sampling(args):
z_mean, z_log_var = args
epsilon = K.random_normal(shape=(batch_size, latent_dim), mean=0.)
return z_mean + K.exp(z_log_var / 2) * epsilon
z = Lambda(sampling, output_shape=(latent_dim,))([z_mean, z_log_var])
decoder_h = Dense(intermediate_dim, activation='relu')
decoder_mean = Dense(original_dim, activation='sigmoid')
h_decoded = decoder_h(z)
x_decoded_mean = decoder_mean(h_decoded)
def vae_loss(x, x_decoded_mean):
xent_loss = original_dim * objectives.binary_crossentropy(x, x_decoded_mean)
kl_loss = -0.5 * K.sum(1 + z_log_var - K.square(z_mean) - K.exp(z_log_var), axis=-1)
return xent_loss + kl_loss
vae = Model(x, x_decoded_mean)
vae.compile(optimizer='rmsprop', loss=vae_loss)
(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = fashion_mnist.load_data()
x_train = x_train.astype('float32') / 255.
x_test = x_test.astype('float32') / 255.
x_train = x_train.reshape((len(x_train), np.prod(x_train.shape[1:])))
x_test = x_test.reshape((len(x_test), np.prod(x_test.shape[1:])))
vae.fit(x_train, x_train,
shuffle=True,
epochs=epochs,
batch_size=batch_size,
validation_data=(x_test, x_test))
encoder = Model(x, z_mean)
x_test_encoded = encoder.predict(x_test, batch_size=batch_size)
plt.figure(figsize=(6, 6))
plt.scatter(x_test_encoded[:, 0], x_test_encoded[:, 1], c=y_test)
plt.colorbar()
plt.show()
decoder_input = Input(shape=(latent_dim,))
_h_decoded = decoder_h(decoder_input)
_x_decoded_mean = decoder_mean(_h_decoded)
generator = Model(decoder_input, _x_decoded_mean)
n = 20
digit_size = 28
figure = np.zeros((digit_size * n, digit_size * n))
grid_x = np.linspace(-3, 3, n)
grid_y = np.linspace(-3, 3, n)
for i, xi in enumerate(grid_x):
for j, yi in enumerate(grid_y):
z_sample = np.array([[yi, xi]])
x_decoded = generator.predict(z_sample)
digit = x_decoded[0].reshape(digit_size, digit_size)
figure[(n - i - 1) * digit_size: (n - i) * digit_size,
j * digit_size: (j + 1) * digit_size] = digit
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 10))
plt.imshow(figure)
plt.show()
我們來看一下隱層的表示,同樣起到了很好的分類效果
然後再來生成一些圖形,可以看到不同種類衣服之間的過渡
參考
- Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6114.pdf
- Tutorial on Variational Autoencoders:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05908.pdf
- Building Autoencoders in Keras:https://blog.keras.io/building-autoencoders-in-keras.html
- Fashion-MNIST database of fashion articles:https://keras.io/datasets/#fashion-mnist-database-of-fashion-articles
- 【啄米日常】變分編碼器VAE:https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/25269592