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What are some of the best practices and tips for debugging and troubleshooting CNN, RNN, and ANN models?

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Debugging and troubleshooting neural network models can be challenging and time-consuming, especially when dealing with complex architectures like convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, there are some best practices and tips that can help you identify and fix common errors, improve performance, and optimize your code. In this article, we will cover six of them.

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1 Check your data

The quality and quantity of your data can have a huge impact on the results of your models. Before you train or test your models, make sure you check your data for any errors, inconsistencies, outliers, missing values, or biases. You can use tools like pandas, numpy, or matplotlib to explore and visualize your data, and apply preprocessing techniques like normalization, standardization, augmentation, or encoding to improve your data quality.

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The steps to onboard data for machine learning requires specific techniques based on the data itself > If the data is from RDBMS, it can be cleaned and formatted at source easily like joining multiple tables, filtering focussed data, checking for data constraints, format checking etc,. > Libraries like Pandas can handle data from any data source like flat files, parquet, JSON, excel etc. It can process huge volume of data without using powerful processors. Spark or Databricks also used in places where the data requires

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2 Use a validation set

A validation set is a subset of your data that you use to evaluate your models during training, without affecting the learning process. It can help you monitor the progress of your models, detect overfitting or underfitting, and tune your hyperparameters. You can use tools like scikit-learn, keras, or pytorch to split your data into training, validation, and test sets, and use metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, or F1-score to measure your model performance.

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Michael Taylor

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One of the crucial steps in building a machine learning model is to split the data into training and testing sets. However, this is not a trivial task and requires careful consideration of the data characteristics and the model objectives. For example, I once supervised a project that used sports data from different time periods to train and test various models. This resulted in poor performance because the data was not representative of the current situation, as sports evolve over time with changes in rules, strategies, and officiating. Therefore, it is essential to understand your data and how it relates to your model goals when creating a test-train split.

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3 Debug your code

Sometimes, the problem is not in your data or your model, but in your code. You might have typos, syntax errors, logical errors, or compatibility issues that prevent your code from running correctly or efficiently. You can use tools like pylint, flake8, or black to check your code quality and style, and use debuggers like pdb, ipdb, or vscode to step through your code and find the source of the errors.

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4 Use logging and checkpoints

Logging and checkpoints are useful features that can help you track and save the state of your models during training. Logging can help you record and display useful information like the loss, the accuracy, the epoch, or the time of your models, and checkpoints can help you save and restore your model weights and parameters at certain intervals or conditions. You can use tools like tensorflow, keras, or pytorch to implement logging and checkpoints in your code.

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Logging & checkpoints are essential for tracking models during training. Logging records valuable info like loss, accuracy, epoch, time, while checkpoints save model state at intervals. Use TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch for implementation. Boost debugging, reproducibility, collaboration, scalability, and training optimisation.

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5 Test your assumptions

Sometimes, you might have assumptions or hypotheses about how your models should behave or perform under certain conditions or scenarios. For example, you might assume that increasing the number of layers or neurons in your model will improve its accuracy, or that using a different activation function or optimizer will speed up its convergence. To test your assumptions, you can use tools like hypothesis, unittest, or pytest to write and run tests on your code and models.

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Dr Syreeta Charles-Cole

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Test assumptions to validate model choices. Use tools like hypothesis, unittest, pytest. Enhance robustness, generalization, and iterative improvement. Ensure code reliability, maintainability, reproducibility, and transparency. Foster data-driven decision-making.

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6 Compare your models

Finally, one of the best ways to debug and troubleshoot your models is to compare them with other models. You can compare different types of models, like CNNs, RNNs, or ANNs, or different variations of the same type of model, like different architectures, hyperparameters, or settings. You can use tools like tensorboard, mlflow, or wandb to visualize and compare your models on various metrics and dimensions.

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Comparing models in machine learning involves evaluating their performance based on certain metrics/criteria. Here are some common approaches for comparing ML models: Accuracy Metrics, Confusion Matrix, Precision, Recall, and F1-score, Mean Squared Error (MSE) or Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), Cross-Validation, Overfitting and Generalization, Baseline Models and Performance on Specific Objectives. Remember, the choice of evaluation metrics depends on the problem at hand and the specific requirements of your project. It is important to consider multiple metrics and not rely solely on a single measure to make informed comparisons.

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1 Check your data

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4 Use logging and checkpoints

5 Test your assumptions

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4 Use logging and checkpoints

5 Test your assumptions

6 Compare your models

7 Here’s what else to consider

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