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We recommend creating such sublayers in the __init__() method (since the sublayers will typically have a build method, they will be built when the outer layer gets built).
# Let's assume we are reusing the Linear class
# with a `build` method that we defined above.
class MLPBlock(keras.layers.Layer):
def __init__(self):
super(MLPBlock, self).__init__()
self.linear_1 = Linear(32)
self.linear_2 = Linear(32)
self.linear_3 = Linear(1)
def call(self, inputs):
x = self.linear_1(inputs)
x = tf.nn.relu(x)
x = self.linear_2(x)
x = tf.nn.relu(x)
return self.linear_3(x)
mlp = MLPBlock()
y = mlp(tf.ones(shape=(3, 64))) # The first call to the `mlp` will create the weights
print("weights:", len(mlp.weights))
print("trainable weights:", len(mlp.trainable_weights))
weights: 6
trainable weights: 6
The add_loss() method
When writing the call() method of a layer, you can create loss tensors that you will want to use later, when writing your training loop. This is doable by calling self.add_loss(value):
# A layer that creates an activity regularization loss
class ActivityRegularizationLayer(keras.layers.Layer):
def __init__(self, rate=1e-2):
super(ActivityRegularizationLayer, self).__init__()
self.rate = rate
def call(self, inputs):
self.add_loss(self.rate * tf.reduce_sum(inputs))
return inputs
These losses (including those created by any inner layer) can be retrieved via layer.losses. This property is reset at the start of every __call__() to the top-level layer, so that layer.losses always contains the loss values created during the last forward pass.
class OuterLayer(keras.layers.Layer):
def __init__(self):
super(OuterLayer, self).__init__()
self.activity_reg = ActivityRegularizationLayer(1e-2)
def call(self, inputs):
return self.activity_reg(inputs)
layer = OuterLayer()
assert len(layer.losses) == 0 # No losses yet since the layer has never been called
_ = layer(tf.zeros(1, 1))
assert len(layer.losses) == 1 # We created one loss value
# `layer.losses` gets reset at the start of each __call__
_ = layer(tf.zeros(1, 1))
assert len(layer.losses) == 1 # This is the loss created during the call above
In addition, the loss property also contains regularization losses created for the weights of any inner layer:
class OuterLayerWithKernelRegularizer(keras.layers.Layer):
def __init__(self):
super(OuterLayerWithKernelRegularizer, self).__init__()
self.dense = keras.layers.Dense(
32, kernel_regularizer=tf.keras.regularizers.l2(1e-3)
)
def call(self, inputs):
return self.dense(inputs)
layer = OuterLayerWithKernelRegularizer()
_ = layer(tf.zeros((1, 1)))
# This is `1e-3 * sum(layer.dense.kernel ** 2)`,
# created by the `kernel_regularizer` above.
print(layer.losses)
[<tf.Tensor: shape=(), dtype=float32, numpy=0.0018842274>]
These losses are meant to be taken into account when writing training loops, like this:
# Instantiate an optimizer.
optimizer = tf.keras.optimizers.SGD(learning_rate=1e-3)
loss_fn = keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(from_logits=True)
# Iterate over the batches of a dataset.
for x_batch_train, y_batch_train in train_dataset:
with tf.GradientTape() as tape:
logits = layer(x_batch_train) # Logits for this minibatch
# Loss value for this minibatch
loss_value = loss_fn(y_batch_train, logits)
# Add extra losses created during this forward pass:
loss_value += sum(model.losses)
grads = tape.gradient(loss_value, model.trainable_weights)
optimizer.apply_gradients(zip(grads, model.trainable_weights))
For a detailed guide about writing training loops, see the guide to writing a training loop from scratch.
These losses also work seamlessly with fit() (they get automatically summed and added to the main loss, if any):