fluid.regularizer

L1Decay

paddle.fluid.regularizer.L1Decay

alias of paddle.fluid.regularizer.L1DecayRegularizer

L1DecayRegularizer

class paddle.fluid.regularizer.L1DecayRegularizer(regularization_coeff=0.0)[source]

Implements the L1 Weight Decay Regularization

L1 regularization encourages sparsity.

\[L1WeightDecay = reg\_coeff * sign(parameter)\]
Parameters

regularization_coeff (float) – regularization coeff

Examples

import paddle.fluid as fluid
main_prog = fluid.Program()
startup_prog = fluid.Program()
with fluid.program_guard(main_prog, startup_prog):
    data = fluid.layers.data(name='image', shape=[3, 28, 28], dtype='float32')
    label = fluid.layers.data(name='label', shape=[1], dtype='int64')
    hidden = fluid.layers.fc(input=data, size=128, act='relu')
    prediction = fluid.layers.fc(input=hidden, size=10, act='softmax')
    loss = fluid.layers.cross_entropy(input=prediction, label=label)
    avg_loss = fluid.layers.mean(loss)
optimizer = fluid.optimizer.Adagrad(
    learning_rate=1e-4,
    regularization=fluid.regularizer.L1DecayRegularizer(
        regularization_coeff=0.1))
optimizer.minimize(avg_loss)

L2Decay

paddle.fluid.regularizer.L2Decay

alias of paddle.fluid.regularizer.L2DecayRegularizer

L2DecayRegularizer

class paddle.fluid.regularizer.L2DecayRegularizer(regularization_coeff=0.0)[source]

Implements the L2 Weight Decay Regularization

Small values of L2 can help prevent over fitting the training data.

\[L2WeightDecay = reg\_coeff * parameter\]
Parameters

regularization_coeff (float) – regularization coeff

Examples

import paddle.fluid as fluid
main_prog = fluid.Program()
startup_prog = fluid.Program()
with fluid.program_guard(main_prog, startup_prog):
    data = fluid.layers.data(name='image', shape=[3, 28, 28], dtype='float32')
    label = fluid.layers.data(name='label', shape=[1], dtype='int64')
    hidden = fluid.layers.fc(input=data, size=128, act='relu')
    prediction = fluid.layers.fc(input=hidden, size=10, act='softmax')
    loss = fluid.layers.cross_entropy(input=prediction, label=label)
    avg_loss = fluid.layers.mean(loss)
optimizer = fluid.optimizer.Adagrad(
    learning_rate=1e-4,
    regularization=fluid.regularizer.L2DecayRegularizer(
        regularization_coeff=0.1))
optimizer.minimize(avg_loss)