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tf.nn.nce_loss(weights, biases, inputs, labels, num_sampled, num_classes, num_true=1, sampled_values=None, remove_accidental_hits=False, partition_strategy='mod', name='nce_loss') {#nce_loss}

Computes and returns the noise-contrastive estimation training loss.

See [Noise-contrastive estimation: A new estimation principle for unnormalized statistical models] (http://www.jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v9/gutmann10a/gutmann10a.pdf). Also see our [Candidate Sampling Algorithms Reference] (../../extras/candidate_sampling.pdf)

Note: In the case where num_true > 1, we assign to each target class the target probability 1 / num_true so that the target probabilities sum to 1 per-example.

Note: It would be useful to allow a variable number of target classes per example. We hope to provide this functionality in a future release. For now, if you have a variable number of target classes, you can pad them out to a constant number by either repeating them or by padding with an otherwise unused class.

Args:
  • weights: A Tensor of shape [num_classes, dim], or a list of Tensor objects whose concatenation along dimension 0 has shape [num_classes, dim]. The (possibly-partitioned) class embeddings.
  • biases: A Tensor of shape [num_classes]. The class biases.
  • inputs: A Tensor of shape [batch_size, dim]. The forward activations of the input network.
  • labels: A Tensor of type int64 and shape [batch_size, num_true]. The target classes.
  • num_sampled: An int. The number of classes to randomly sample per batch.
  • num_classes: An int. The number of possible classes.
  • num_true: An int. The number of target classes per training example.
  • sampled_values: a tuple of (sampled_candidates, true_expected_count, sampled_expected_count) returned by a *_candidate_sampler function. (if None, we default to log_uniform_candidate_sampler)
  • remove_accidental_hits: A bool. Whether to remove "accidental hits" where a sampled class equals one of the target classes. If set to True, this is a "Sampled Logistic" loss instead of NCE, and we are learning to generate log-odds instead of log probabilities. See our [Candidate Sampling Algorithms Reference] (../../extras/candidate_sampling.pdf). Default is False.
  • partition_strategy: A string specifying the partitioning strategy, relevant if len(weights) > 1. Currently "div" and "mod" are supported. Default is "mod". See tf.nn.embedding_lookup for more details.
  • name: A name for the operation (optional).
Returns:

A batch_size 1-D tensor of per-example NCE losses.