Example of VAE on MNIST dataset using MLP with tf.keras and tf-2.0

variational_autoencoder.py

'''Example of VAE on MNIST dataset using MLP

tf-2.0 adaptation of the keras implementation [1]
with additional output of the reconstruction
and KL losses as discussed in [2]

# Reference

[1] https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/examples/variational_autoencoder.py
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/q/54069363/2084944
'''

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

from tensorflow.keras.layers import Lambda, Input, Dense
from tensorflow.keras.models import Model
from tensorflow.keras.datasets import mnist
from tensorflow.keras.losses import mse, binary_crossentropy
from tensorflow.keras.utils import plot_model
from tensorflow.keras import backend as K

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import argparse
import os


# reparameterization trick
# instead of sampling from Q(z|X), sample epsilon = N(0,I)
# z = z_mean + sqrt(var) * epsilon
def sampling(args):
    """Reparameterization trick by sampling from an isotropic unit Gaussian.

    # Arguments
        args (tensor): mean and log of variance of Q(z|X)

    # Returns
        z (tensor): sampled latent vector
    """

    z_mean, z_log_var = args
    batch = K.shape(z_mean)[0]
    dim = K.int_shape(z_mean)[1]
    # by default, random_normal has mean = 0 and std = 1.0
    epsilon = K.random_normal(shape=(batch, dim))
    return z_mean + K.exp(0.5 * z_log_var) * epsilon


def plot_results(models,
                 data,
                 batch_size=128,
                 model_name="vae_mnist"):
    """Plots labels and MNIST digits as a function of the 2D latent vector

    # Arguments
        models (tuple): encoder and decoder models
        data (tuple): test data and label
        batch_size (int): prediction batch size
        model_name (string): which model is using this function
    """

    encoder, decoder = models
    x_test, y_test = data
    os.makedirs(model_name, exist_ok=True)

    filename = os.path.join(model_name, "vae_mean.png")
    # display a 2D plot of the digit classes in the latent space
    z_mean, _, _ = encoder.predict(x_test,
                                   batch_size=batch_size)
    plt.figure(figsize=(12, 10))
    plt.scatter(z_mean[:, 0], z_mean[:, 1], c=y_test)
    plt.colorbar()
    plt.xlabel("z[0]")
    plt.ylabel("z[1]")
    plt.savefig(filename)
    plt.show()

    filename = os.path.join(model_name, "digits_over_latent.png")
    # display a 30x30 2D manifold of digits
    n = 30
    digit_size = 28
    figure = np.zeros((digit_size * n, digit_size * n))
    # linearly spaced coordinates corresponding to the 2D plot
    # of digit classes in the latent space
    grid_x = np.linspace(-4, 4, n)
    grid_y = np.linspace(-4, 4, n)[::-1]

    for i, yi in enumerate(grid_y):
        for j, xi in enumerate(grid_x):
            z_sample = np.array([[xi, yi]])
            x_decoded = decoder.predict(z_sample)
            digit = x_decoded[0].reshape(digit_size, digit_size)
            figure[i * digit_size: (i + 1) * digit_size,
                   j * digit_size: (j + 1) * digit_size] = digit

    plt.figure(figsize=(10, 10))
    start_range = digit_size // 2
    end_range = (n - 1) * digit_size + start_range + 1
    pixel_range = np.arange(start_range, end_range, digit_size)
    sample_range_x = np.round(grid_x, 1)
    sample_range_y = np.round(grid_y, 1)
    plt.xticks(pixel_range, sample_range_x)
    plt.yticks(pixel_range, sample_range_y)
    plt.xlabel("z[0]")
    plt.ylabel("z[1]")
    plt.imshow(figure, cmap='Greys_r')
    plt.savefig(filename)
    plt.show()


# MNIST dataset
(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = mnist.load_data()

image_size = x_train.shape[1]
original_dim = image_size * image_size
x_train = np.reshape(x_train, [-1, original_dim])
x_test = np.reshape(x_test, [-1, original_dim])
x_train = x_train.astype('float32') / 255
x_test = x_test.astype('float32') / 255

# network parameters
input_shape = (original_dim, )
intermediate_dim = 512
batch_size = 128
latent_dim = 2
epochs = 5

# VAE model = encoder + decoder
# build encoder model
inputs = Input(shape=input_shape, name='encoder_input')
x = Dense(intermediate_dim, activation='relu')(inputs)
z_mean = Dense(latent_dim, name='z_mean')(x)
z_log_var = Dense(latent_dim, name='z_log_var')(x)

# use reparameterization trick to push the sampling out as input
# note that "output_shape" isn't necessary with the TensorFlow backend
z = Lambda(sampling, output_shape=(latent_dim,), name='z')([z_mean, z_log_var])

# instantiate encoder model
encoder = Model(inputs, [z_mean, z_log_var, z], name='encoder')
encoder.summary()
plot_model(encoder, to_file='vae_mlp_encoder.png', show_shapes=True)

# build decoder model
latent_inputs = Input(shape=(latent_dim,), name='z_sampling')
x = Dense(intermediate_dim, activation='relu')(latent_inputs)
outputs = Dense(original_dim, activation='sigmoid')(x)

# instantiate decoder model
decoder = Model(latent_inputs, outputs, name='decoder')
decoder.summary()
plot_model(decoder, to_file='vae_mlp_decoder.png', show_shapes=True)

# instantiate VAE model
outputs = decoder(encoder(inputs)[2])
vae = Model(inputs, outputs, name='vae_mlp')


models = (encoder, decoder)
data = (x_test, y_test)


reconstruction_loss = binary_crossentropy(inputs, outputs)

reconstruction_loss = original_dim * K.mean(reconstruction_loss)
kl_loss = 1 + z_log_var - K.square(z_mean) - K.exp(z_log_var)
kl_loss = K.sum(kl_loss, axis=-1)
kl_loss = -0.5 * K.mean(kl_loss)
vae.add_loss(kl_loss)
vae.add_metric(kl_loss, name='kl_loss', aggregation='mean')
vae.add_loss(reconstruction_loss)
vae.add_metric(reconstruction_loss, name='mse_loss', aggregation='mean')
vae.compile(optimizer='adam')
vae.summary()
plot_model(vae,
           to_file='vae_mlp.png',
           show_shapes=True)

# train the autoencoder
vae.fit(x_train,
        epochs=epochs,
        batch_size=batch_size,
        validation_data=(x_test, None))

plot_results(models,
             data,
             batch_size=batch_size,
             model_name="vae_mlp")