CapsNet-Keras

Now Val_acc>99.5%. A Keras implementation of CapsNet in the paper:
Sara Sabour, Nicholas Frosst, Geoffrey E Hinton. Dynamic Routing Between Capsules. NIPS 2017

Recent updates:

• Released v0.1 to use. No frequent changes will be made.

TODO

• Keep debugging to improve the accuracy. The learning rate decay can be tuned.
• The model has 8M parameters, while the paper said it should be 11M. I'll figure out what's the problem.
• It is time to do something with CapsuleNet...(LOL)

Contribution

• Your contribution to the repo is welcome. Open an issue or contact me with guoxifeng1990@163.com or WeChat (微信号) wenlong-guo.

Requirements

• Keras
• matplotlib

Usage

Training

Step 1. Install Keras:

$ pip install keras

Step 2. Clone this repository with git.

$ git clone https://github.com/xifengguo/CapsNet-Keras.git
$ cd CapsNet-Keras

Step 3. Training:

$ python capsulenet.py

Training with one routing iteration (default 3).

$ python capsulenet.py --num_routing 1

Other parameters include batch_size, epochs, lam_recon, shift_fraction, save_dir can passed to the function in the same way. Please refer to capsulenet.py

Testing

Suppose you have trained a model using the above command, then the trained model will be saved to result/trained_model.h5. Now just launch the following command to get test results.

$ python capsulenet.py --is_training 0 --weights result/trained_model.h5

It will output the testing accuracy and show the reconstructed images. The testing data is same as the validation data. It will be easy to test on new data, just change the code as you want (Of course you can do it!!!)

If sadly you do not have a good computer to train the model (sad face), you can download a model I trained from https://pan.baidu.com/s/1hsF2bvY

Results

Main result
by launching python capsulenet.py: The epoch=1 means the result is evaluated after training one epoch. In the saved log file, it starts from 0.

Epoch	1	5	10	15	20
train_acc	90.65	98.95	99.36	99.63	99.75
vali_acc	98.51	99.30	99.34	99.49	99.59

Losses and accuracies:

Results with one routing iteration
by launching python CapsNet.py --num_routing 1

Epoch	1	5	10	15	20
train_acc	89.64	99.02	99.42	99.66	99.73
vali_acc	98.55	99.33	99.43	99.57	99.58

Every epoch consumes about 110s on a single GTX 1070 GPU.

NOTE: The training is still under-fitting, welcome to try for your own.
The learning rate decay is not fine-tuned, I just tried this one. You can tune this.

Testing result
The result by launching
python capsulenet.py --is_training 0 --weights result/trained_model.h5

The model structure:

Other Implementations

• Kaggle (this version as self-contained notebook):

  • MNIST Dataset running on the standard MNIST and predicting for test data
  • MNIST Fashion running on the more challenging Fashion images.

• TensorFlow:

  • naturomics/CapsNet-Tensorflow
    Very good implementation. I referred to this repository in my code.
  • InnerPeace-Wu/CapsNet-tensorflow
    I referred to the use of tf.scan when optimizing my CapsuleLayer.
  • LaoDar/tf_CapsNet_simple

• PyTorch:

  • nishnik/CapsNet-PyTorch
  • timomernick/pytorch-capsule
  • gram-ai/capsule-networks
  • andreaazzini/capsnet.pytorch
  • leftthomas/CapsNet

• MXNet:

  • AaronLeong/CapsNet_Mxnet

• Lasagne (Theano):

  • DeniskaMazur/CapsNet-Lasagne

• Chainer:

  • soskek/dynamic_routing_between_capsules