ELU layer with basic tests

include/caffe/layers/elu_layer.hpp

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+#ifndef CAFFE_ELU_LAYER_HPP_
+#define CAFFE_ELU_LAYER_HPP_
+
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "caffe/blob.hpp"
+#include "caffe/layer.hpp"
+#include "caffe/proto/caffe.pb.h"
+
+#include "caffe/layers/neuron_layer.hpp"
+
+namespace caffe {
+
+/**
+ * @brief Exponential Linear Unit non-linearity @f$
+ *        y = \left\{
+ *        \begin{array}{lr}
+ *            x                  & \mathrm{if} \; x > 0 \\
+ *            \alpha (\exp(x)-1) & \mathrm{if} \; x \le 0
+ *        \end{array} \right.
+ *      @f$.  
+ */
+template <typename Dtype>
+class ELULayer : public NeuronLayer<Dtype> {
+ public:
+  /**
+   * @param param provides ELUParameter elu_param,
+   *     with ELULayer options:
+   *   - alpha (\b optional, default 1).
+   *     the value @f$ \alpha @f$ by which controls saturation for negative inputs.
+   */
+  explicit ELULayer(const LayerParameter& param)
+      : NeuronLayer<Dtype>(param) {}
+
+  virtual inline const char* type() const { return "ELU"; }
+
+ protected:
+  /**
+   * @param bottom input Blob vector (length 1)
+   *   -# @f$ (N \times C \times H \times W) @f$
+   *      the inputs @f$ x @f$
+   * @param top output Blob vector (length 1)
+   *   -# @f$ (N \times C \times H \times W) @f$
+   *      the computed outputs @f$
+   *        y = \left\{
+   *        \begin{array}{lr}
+   *            x                  & \mathrm{if} \; x > 0 \\
+   *            \alpha (\exp(x)-1) & \mathrm{if} \; x \le 0
+   *        \end{array} \right.
+   *      @f$.  
+   */
+  virtual void Forward_cpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
+      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top);
+  virtual void Forward_gpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
+      const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top);
+
+  /**
+   * @brief Computes the error gradient w.r.t. the ELU inputs.
+   *
+   * @param top output Blob vector (length 1), providing the error gradient with
+   *      respect to the outputs
+   *   -# @f$ (N \times C \times H \times W) @f$
+   *      containing error gradients @f$ \frac{\partial E}{\partial y} @f$
+   *      with respect to computed outputs @f$ y @f$
+   * @param propagate_down see Layer::Backward.
+   * @param bottom input Blob vector (length 1)
+   *   -# @f$ (N \times C \times H \times W) @f$
+   *      the inputs @f$ x @f$; Backward fills their diff with
+   *      gradients @f$
+   *        \frac{\partial E}{\partial x} = \left\{
+   *        \begin{array}{lr}
+   *            1           & \mathrm{if} \; x > 0 \\
+   *            y + \alpha  & \mathrm{if} \; x \le 0
+   *        \end{array} \right.
+   *      @f$ if propagate_down[0].
+   */
+  virtual void Backward_cpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top,
+      const vector<bool>& propagate_down, const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom);
+  virtual void Backward_gpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top,
+      const vector<bool>& propagate_down, const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom);
+};
+
+
+}  // namespace caffe
+
+#endif  // CAFFE_ELU_LAYER_HPP_

src/caffe/layers/elu_layer.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "caffe/layers/elu_layer.hpp"
+
+namespace caffe {
+
+template <typename Dtype>
+void ELULayer<Dtype>::Forward_cpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
+    const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
+  const Dtype* bottom_data = bottom[0]->cpu_data();
+  Dtype* top_data = top[0]->mutable_cpu_data();
+  const int count = bottom[0]->count();
+  Dtype alpha = this->layer_param_.elu_param().alpha();
+  for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
+    top_data[i] = std::max(bottom_data[i], Dtype(0))
+        + alpha * (exp(std::min(bottom_data[i], Dtype(0))) - Dtype(1));
+  }
+}
+
+template <typename Dtype>
+void ELULayer<Dtype>::Backward_cpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top,
+    const vector<bool>& propagate_down,
+    const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom) {
+  if (propagate_down[0]) {
+    const Dtype* bottom_data = bottom[0]->cpu_data();
+    const Dtype* top_data = top[0]->cpu_data();
+    const Dtype* top_diff = top[0]->cpu_diff();
+    Dtype* bottom_diff = bottom[0]->mutable_cpu_diff();
+    const int count = bottom[0]->count();
+    Dtype alpha = this->layer_param_.elu_param().alpha();
+    for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
+      bottom_diff[i] = top_diff[i] * ((bottom_data[i] > 0)
+          + (alpha + top_data[i]) * (bottom_data[i] <= 0));
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+
+#ifdef CPU_ONLY
+STUB_GPU(ELULayer);
+#endif
+
+INSTANTIATE_CLASS(ELULayer);
+REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS(ELU);
+
+}  // namespace caffe

src/caffe/layers/elu_layer.cu

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "caffe/layers/elu_layer.hpp"
+
+namespace caffe {
+
+template <typename Dtype>
+__global__ void ELUForward(const int n, const Dtype* in, Dtype* out,
+    Dtype alpha) {
+  CUDA_KERNEL_LOOP(index, n) {
+    out[index] = in[index] > 0 ? in[index] :
+        alpha * (exp(in[index]) - 1);
+  }
+}
+
+template <typename Dtype>
+void ELULayer<Dtype>::Forward_gpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
+    const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
+  const Dtype* bottom_data = bottom[0]->gpu_data();
+  Dtype* top_data = top[0]->mutable_gpu_data();
+  const int count = bottom[0]->count();
+  Dtype alpha = this->layer_param_.elu_param().alpha();
+  // NOLINT_NEXT_LINE(whitespace/operators)
+  ELUForward<Dtype><<<CAFFE_GET_BLOCKS(count), CAFFE_CUDA_NUM_THREADS>>>(
+      count, bottom_data, top_data, alpha);
+  CUDA_POST_KERNEL_CHECK;
+}
+
+template <typename Dtype>
+__global__ void ELUBackward(const int n, const Dtype* in_diff,
+    const Dtype* out_data, const Dtype* in_data,
+    Dtype* out_diff, Dtype alpha) {
+  CUDA_KERNEL_LOOP(index, n) {
+    out_diff[index] = in_data[index] > 0 ? in_diff[index] :
+        in_diff[index] * (out_data[index] + alpha);
+  }
+}
+
+template <typename Dtype>
+void ELULayer<Dtype>::Backward_gpu(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top,
+    const vector<bool>& propagate_down,
+    const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom) {
+  if (propagate_down[0]) {
+    const Dtype* bottom_data = bottom[0]->gpu_data();
+    const Dtype* top_diff = top[0]->gpu_diff();
+    const Dtype* top_data = top[0]->gpu_data();
+    Dtype* bottom_diff = bottom[0]->mutable_gpu_diff();
+    const int count = bottom[0]->count();
+    Dtype alpha = this->layer_param_.elu_param().alpha();
+    // NOLINT_NEXT_LINE(whitespace/operators)
+    ELUBackward<Dtype><<<CAFFE_GET_BLOCKS(count), CAFFE_CUDA_NUM_THREADS>>>(
+        count, top_diff, top_data, bottom_data, bottom_diff, alpha);
+    CUDA_POST_KERNEL_CHECK;
+  }
+}
+
+
+INSTANTIATE_LAYER_GPU_FUNCS(ELULayer);
+
+
+}  // namespace caffe

src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto

@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ message ParamSpec {
 // NOTE
 // Update the next available ID when you add a new LayerParameter field.
 //
-// LayerParameter next available layer-specific ID: 140 (last added: batch_norm_param)
+// LayerParameter next available layer-specific ID: 141 (last added: elu_param)
 message LayerParameter {
   optional string name = 1; // the layer name
   optional string type = 2; // the layer type
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ message LayerParameter {
   optional DropoutParameter dropout_param = 108;
   optional DummyDataParameter dummy_data_param = 109;
   optional EltwiseParameter eltwise_param = 110;
+  optional ELUParameter elu_param = 140;
   optional EmbedParameter embed_param = 137;
   optional ExpParameter exp_param = 111;
   optional FlattenParameter flatten_param = 135;
@@ -629,6 +630,14 @@ message EltwiseParameter {
   optional bool stable_prod_grad = 3 [default = true];
 }
 
+// Message that stores parameters used by ELULayer
+message ELUParameter {
+  // Described in:
+  // Clevert, D.-A., Unterthiner, T., & Hochreiter, S. (2015). Fast and Accurate 
+  // Deep Network Learning by Exponential Linear Units (ELUs). arXiv
+  optional float alpha = 1 [default = 1];
+}
+
 // Message that stores parameters used by EmbedLayer
 message EmbedParameter {
   optional uint32 num_output = 1; // The number of outputs for the layer

src/caffe/test/test_neuron_layer.cpp

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include "caffe/layers/absval_layer.hpp"
 #include "caffe/layers/bnll_layer.hpp"
 #include "caffe/layers/dropout_layer.hpp"
+#include "caffe/layers/elu_layer.hpp"
 #include "caffe/layers/exp_layer.hpp"
 #include "caffe/layers/inner_product_layer.hpp"
 #include "caffe/layers/log_layer.hpp"
@@ -259,6 +260,64 @@ TYPED_TEST(NeuronLayerTest, TestReLUGradientWithNegativeSlope) {
       this->blob_top_vec_);
 }
 
+TYPED_TEST(NeuronLayerTest, TestELU) {
+  typedef typename TypeParam::Dtype Dtype;
+  LayerParameter layer_param;
+  CHECK(google::protobuf::TextFormat::ParseFromString(
+      "elu_param { alpha: 0.5 }", &layer_param));
+  ELULayer<Dtype> layer(layer_param);
+  layer.SetUp(this->blob_bottom_vec_, this->blob_top_vec_);
+  layer.Forward(this->blob_bottom_vec_, this->blob_top_vec_);
+  const Dtype kDelta = 2e-4;
+  // Now, check values
+  const Dtype* bottom_data = this->blob_bottom_->cpu_data();
+  const Dtype* top_data = this->blob_top_->cpu_data();
+  for (int i = 0; i < this->blob_bottom_->count(); ++i) {
+    if (bottom_data[i] > 0) {
+      EXPECT_FLOAT_EQ(top_data[i], bottom_data[i]);
+    } else {
+      EXPECT_NEAR(top_data[i], 0.5 * (exp(bottom_data[i]) - 1), kDelta);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+TYPED_TEST(NeuronLayerTest, TestELUasReLU) {
+  typedef typename TypeParam::Dtype Dtype;
+  LayerParameter layer_param;
+  CHECK(google::protobuf::TextFormat::ParseFromString(
+      "elu_param { alpha: 0 }", &layer_param));
+  ELULayer<Dtype> layer(layer_param);
+  layer.SetUp(this->blob_bottom_vec_, this->blob_top_vec_);
+  layer.Forward(this->blob_bottom_vec_, this->blob_top_vec_);
+  // Now, check values
+  const Dtype* bottom_data = this->blob_bottom_->cpu_data();
+  const Dtype* top_data = this->blob_top_->cpu_data();
+  for (int i = 0; i < this->blob_bottom_->count(); ++i) {
+    EXPECT_GE(top_data[i], 0.);
+    EXPECT_TRUE(top_data[i] == 0 || top_data[i] == bottom_data[i]);
+  }
+}
+
+TYPED_TEST(NeuronLayerTest, TestELUGradient) {
+  typedef typename TypeParam::Dtype Dtype;
+  LayerParameter layer_param;
+  ELULayer<Dtype> layer(layer_param);
+  GradientChecker<Dtype> checker(1e-2, 1e-3, 1701, 0., 0.01);
+  checker.CheckGradientEltwise(&layer, this->blob_bottom_vec_,
+      this->blob_top_vec_);
+}
+
+TYPED_TEST(NeuronLayerTest, TestELUasReLUGradient) {
+  typedef typename TypeParam::Dtype Dtype;
+  LayerParameter layer_param;
+  CHECK(google::protobuf::TextFormat::ParseFromString(
+      "elu_param { alpha: 0 }", &layer_param));
+  ELULayer<Dtype> layer(layer_param);
+  GradientChecker<Dtype> checker(1e-2, 1e-3, 1701, 0., 0.01);
+  checker.CheckGradientEltwise(&layer, this->blob_bottom_vec_,
+      this->blob_top_vec_);
+}
+
 TYPED_TEST(NeuronLayerTest, TestSigmoid) {
   typedef typename TypeParam::Dtype Dtype;
   LayerParameter layer_param;