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The core concept in Flux is the
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model
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. A model (or &quot;layer&quot;) is simply a function with parameters. For example, in plain Julia code, we could define the following function to represent a logistic regression (or simple neural network):
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<pre><code class="language-julia">W = randn(3,5)
b = randn(3)
affine(x) = W * x + b
x1 = rand(5) # [0.581466,0.606507,0.981732,0.488618,0.415414]
y1 = softmax(affine(x1)) # [0.32676,0.0974173,0.575823]</code></pre>
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<code>affine</code>
is simply a function which takes some vector
<code>x1</code>
and outputs a new one
<code>y1</code>
. For example,
<code>x1</code>
could be data from an image and
<code>y1</code>
could be predictions about the content of that image. However,
<code>affine</code>
isn&#39;t static. It has
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parameters
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<code>W</code>
and
<code>b</code>
, and if we tweak those parameters we&#39;ll tweak the result hopefully to make the predictions more accurate.
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This is all well and good, but we usually want to have more than one affine layer in our network; writing out the above definition to create new sets of parameters every time would quickly become tedious. For that reason, we want to use a
<em>
template
</em>
which creates these functions for us:
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<pre><code class="language-julia">affine1 = Affine(5, 5)
affine2 = Affine(5, 5)
softmax(affine1(x1)) # [0.167952, 0.186325, 0.176683, 0.238571, 0.23047]
softmax(affine2(x1)) # [0.125361, 0.246448, 0.21966, 0.124596, 0.283935]</code></pre>
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We just created two separate
<code>Affine</code>
layers, and each contains its own version of
<code>W</code>
and
<code>b</code>
, leading to a different result when called with our data. It&#39;s easy to define templates like
<code>Affine</code>
ourselves (see
<a href="@ref">
The Template
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), but Flux provides
<code>Affine</code>
out of the box, so we&#39;ll use that for now.
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A more complex model usually involves many basic layers like
<code>affine</code>
, where we use the output of one layer as the input to the next:
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<pre><code class="language-julia">mymodel1(x) = softmax(affine2(σ(affine1(x))))
mymodel1(x1) # [0.187935, 0.232237, 0.169824, 0.230589, 0.179414]</code></pre>
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This syntax is again a little unwieldy for larger networks, so Flux provides another template of sorts to create the function for us:
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<pre><code class="language-julia">mymodel2 = Chain(affine1, σ, affine2, softmax)
mymodel2(x2) # [0.187935, 0.232237, 0.169824, 0.230589, 0.179414]</code></pre>
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<code>mymodel2</code>
is exactly equivalent to
<code>mymodel1</code>
because it simply calls the provided functions in sequence. We don&#39;t have to predefine the affine layers and can also write this as:
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<pre><code class="language-julia">mymodel3 = Chain(
Affine(5, 5), σ,
Affine(5, 5), softmax)</code></pre>
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You now know enough to take a look at the
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We noted above that a &quot;model&quot; is a function with some number of trainable parameters. This goes both ways; a normal Julia function like
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is effectively a model with 0 parameters. Flux doesn&#39;t care, and anywhere that you use one, you can use the other. For example,
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<pre><code class="language-julia">foo = Chain(exp, sum, log)
foo([1,2,3]) == 3.408 == log(sum(exp([1,2,3])))</code></pre>
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