Keras: Reproducible Results Simple MLP on CPU

Question

I'm building and testing a simple MLP model, but am running into an issue with the Keras reproducibility for my results. I am trying to set up my neural network so that the prediction outputs won't change when I run the network.

I have already followed the Keras guide online as well as this post (Reproducible results using Keras with TensorFlow backend). I am running Keras on my local machine with Tensorflow backend and the following versions:

tensorflow 2.0.0-alpha0, keras 2.2.4-tf, numpy 1.16.0

import os  
os.environ['PYTHONHASHSEED']=str(0)

import random
random.seed(0)

from numpy.random import seed
seed(1)
import tensorflow as tf
tf.compat.v1.set_random_seed(2)

from keras import backend as K
session_conf = tf.compat.v1.ConfigProto(intra_op_parallelism_threads=1, inter_op_parallelism_threads=1)
sess = tf.compat.v1.Session(graph=tf.compat.v1.get_default_graph(), config=session_conf)
K.set_session(sess)

import numpy as np
from tensorflow.python.keras.layers import Dropout, BatchNormalization
from tensorflow.python.keras.optimizers import Adam
from galileo.time_series.machine_learning.classifiers import Machine_Learning_Classifier_Base
from galileo.util.time_util import TimerContextManager


class Machine_Learning_Classifier_Keras(object):    
    @classmethod
    def _get_classifier(cls, n_input_features=None, **params):
        KerasClassifier = tf.keras.wrappers.scikit_learn.KerasClassifier
        Dense = tf.keras.layers.Dense
        Sequential = tf.keras.models.Sequential

        sk_params = {"epochs": 200, "batch_size": 128, "shuffle": False}

        def create_model(optimizer='adam', init='he_normal'):
            # create model
            model = Sequential()
            model.add(BatchNormalization())
            model.add(Dropout(0.2))
            model.add(Dense(500, input_dim=4, kernel_initializer=init, activation='relu'))
            model.add(BatchNormalization())
            model.add(Dropout(0.2))
            model.add(Dense(250, kernel_initializer=init, activation='relu'))
            model.add(BatchNormalization())
            model.add(Dropout(0.2))
            model.add(Dense(500, kernel_initializer=init, activation='relu'))
            model.add(Dense(1, kernel_initializer=init, activation='sigmoid'))
            # Compile model
            model.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy', optimizer=Adam(lr=3e-3, decay=0.85), metrics=['accuracy'])
            return model

        return KerasClassifier(build_fn=create_model, **sk_params)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    X = np.asarray([[0.0, 0.0], [1.0, 1.0], [2.0, 2.5], [1.5, 1.6]])
    y = np.asarray([0, 0, 1, 1])

    nn = Machine_Learning_Classifier_Keras._get_classifier()
    nn.fit(X, y, sample_weight=np.asarray([0, 0, 1, 1]))

    values = np.asarray([[0.5, 0.5], [0.6, 0.5], [0.8, 1.0], [0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5]])

    probas = nn.predict_proba(values)
    print(probas)

I would expect my outputs for the predict_proba values to stay the same between runs; however, I am getting the following for two successive runs (results will vary)

Run 1:
[[0.9439231  0.05607685]
 [0.91351616 0.08648387]
 [0.06378722 0.9362128 ]
 [0.9439231  0.05607685]
 [0.9439231  0.05607685]
 [0.9439231  0.05607685]
 [0.94392323 0.05607677]
 [0.94392323 0.05607677]]

Run 2:
[[0.94391584 0.05608419]
 [0.91350436 0.08649567]
 [0.06378281 0.9362172 ]
 [0.94391584 0.05608419]
 [0.94391584 0.05608419]
 [0.94391584 0.05608419]
 [0.94391584 0.05608416]
 [0.94391584 0.05608416]]

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '19 at 18:07

You also need to fix the seed for the kernel_initializer in every layer. For example, a reproducible code looks like this:

np.random.seed(1)
tf.set_random_seed(1)

model = tf.keras.Sequential()
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Dense(8, activation='relu', kernel_initializer=keras.initializers.he_normal(seed=1), input_shape=[1]))
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Dense(1, activation='linear', kernel_initializer=keras.initializers.he_normal(seed=1)))

I opened a feature request ticket in TensorFlow GitHub to ask for a consolidating variable to fix the seed for all kernel initializers.

Keras: Reproducible Results Simple MLP on CPU

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