List of callbacks¶

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from fastai.gen_doc.nbdoc import *
from fastai.vision import *
from fastai.text import *
from fastai.callbacks import * 
from fastai.basic_train import * 
from fastai.train import * 
from fastai import callbacks

fastai's training loop is highly extensible, with a rich callback system. See the callback docs if you're interested in writing your own callback. See below for a list of callbacks that are provided with fastai, grouped by the module they're defined in.

Every callback that is passed to Learner with the callback_fns parameter will be automatically stored as an attribute. The attribute name is snake-cased, so for instance ActivationStats will appear as learn.activation_stats (assuming your object is named learn).

`Callback`¶

This sub-package contains more sophisticated callbacks that each are in their own module. They are (click the link for more details):

`LRFinder`¶

Use Leslie Smith's learning rate finder to find a good learning rate for training your model. Let's see an example of use on the MNIST dataset with a simple CNN.

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path = untar_data(URLs.MNIST_SAMPLE)
data = ImageDataBunch.from_folder(path)
def simple_learner(): return Learner(data, simple_cnn((3,16,16,2)), metrics=[accuracy])
learn = simple_learner()

The fastai librairy already has a Learner method called lr_find that uses LRFinder to plot the loss as a function of the learning rate

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learn.lr_find()

LR Finder is complete, type {learner_name}.recorder.plot() to see the graph.

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learn.recorder.plot()

In this example, a learning rate around 2e-2 seems like the right fit.

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lr = 2e-2

`OneCycleScheduler`¶

Train with Leslie Smith's 1cycle annealing method. Let's train our simple learner using the one cycle policy.

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learn.fit_one_cycle(3, lr)

Total time: 00:08

epoch	train_loss	valid_loss	accuracy
1	0.111205	0.056460	0.979882
2	0.040632	0.023650	0.987733
3	0.021217	0.020044	0.991659

The learning rate and the momentum were changed during the epochs as follows (more info on the dedicated documentation page).

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learn.recorder.plot_lr(show_moms=True)

`MixUpCallback`¶

Data augmentation using the method from mixup: Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization. It is very simple to add mixup in fastai :

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learn = Learner(data, simple_cnn((3, 16, 16, 2)), metrics=[accuracy]).mixup()

`CSVLogger`¶

Log the results of training in a csv file. Simply pass the CSVLogger callback to the Learner.

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learn = Learner(data, simple_cnn((3, 16, 16, 2)), metrics=[accuracy, error_rate], callback_fns=[CSVLogger])

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learn.fit(3)

Total time: 00:08

epoch	train_loss	valid_loss	accuracy	error_rate
1	0.125326	0.103473	0.963690	0.036310
2	0.077392	0.059223	0.977920	0.022080
3	0.065756	0.081031	0.969578	0.030422

You can then read the csv.

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learn.csv_logger.read_logged_file()

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	epoch	train_loss	valid_loss	accuracy	error_rate
0	1	0.125326	0.103473	0.963690	0.036310
1	2	0.077392	0.059223	0.977920	0.022080
2	3	0.065756	0.081031	0.969578	0.030422

`GeneralScheduler`¶

Create your own multi-stage annealing schemes with a convenient API. To illustrate, let's implement a 2 phase schedule.

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def fit_odd_shedule(learn, lr, mom):
    n = len(learn.data.train_dl)
    phases = [TrainingPhase(n, lr, mom, lr_anneal=annealing_cos), TrainingPhase(n*2, lr, mom, lr_anneal=annealing_poly(2))]
    sched = GeneralScheduler(learn, phases)
    learn.callbacks.append(sched)
    total_epochs = 3
    learn.fit(total_epochs)

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learn = Learner(data, simple_cnn((3,16,16,2)), metrics=accuracy)
fit_odd_shedule(learn, 1e-3, 0.9)

Total time: 00:08

epoch	train_loss	valid_loss	accuracy
1	0.178648	0.161728	0.944553
2	0.142739	0.132620	0.957802
3	0.135239	0.129183	0.960255

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learn.recorder.plot_lr()

List of callbacks¶

`Callback`¶

`LRFinder`¶

`OneCycleScheduler`¶

`MixUpCallback`¶

`CSVLogger`¶

`GeneralScheduler`¶

`MixedPrecision`¶

`HookCallback`¶

`RNNTrainer`¶

`TerminateOnNaNCallback`¶

`EarlyStoppingCallback`¶

`SaveModelCallback`¶

`ReduceLROnPlateauCallback`¶

`PeakMemMetric`¶

`train` and `basic_train`¶

`Recorder`¶

`ShowGraph`¶

`BnFreeze`¶

`GradientClipping`¶

List of callbacks¶

train and basic_train¶

`train` and `basic_train`¶