How to see the training progress in CNN?

When the CNN training is running, how to make it show the training progress (the table with iteration no., training accuracy, loss etc.). I asked for the second output through "info" in the trainNetwork function which gave me a summary at the end. But I want to see it while the training is going on.

Answer 1

[Javier Pinzón]

Hello Stu,

In the trainingOptions, you need tu put the option 'Verbose', true, ... , in that way you can see the progress, and set your VerboseFrequency, also, if you are using the 2017b, you can also plot your progress, using the option 'Plots','training-progress', ...

So, a full example may be:

    opts = trainingOptions('sgdm', ...
    'InitialLearnRate', 0.01, ...
    'L2Regularization', 0.004, ...
    'Shuffle', 'every-epoch', ...
    'MaxEpochs', 20, ...
    'MiniBatchSize', 69, ...
    'Verbose', true, ...
    'VerboseFrequency', 320, ...
        'ValidationData',ValidationDS, ...
        'ValidationFrequency',160, ...
        'ValidationPatience',Inf, ...
    'Plots','training-progress', ...
    'ExecutionEnvironment', 'auto', ...
    'CheckpointPath','data\epoch');

Also I recommend you yo use a MiniBatchSize multiple of your total amount of images of your training dataset, and the VerboseFrequency, be set as TotalImage/MiniBatchSize in that way you will see what happens at the end of every epoch, as in the example, there are a total of 22080 images, and I set 69 as the batch size, so, to see it in every epoch, i said that i wanted to see every 320 iterations the table (320 iter = 1 Epoch).

Hope it may help you.

Regards, Javier

[Mibang]

Great, thanks, I also took your answer for my work.