caffe之,五loss层

在caffe中,网络的结构由prototxt文件中给出,由一些列的Layer(层)组成,常用的层如:数据加载层、卷积操作层、pooling层、非线性变换层、内积运算层、归一化层、损失计算层等;本篇主要介绍loss层

下面首先给出全loss层的结构设置的一个小例子(定义在.prototxt文件中)

layer {
  name: "loss"
  type: "SoftmaxWithLoss"  //loss fucntion的类型
  bottom: "pred"  //loss fucntion的输入数据blob,即网络的预测值lable
  bottom: "label"  //loss function的另外一个输入数据blob,即数据集的真实label
  top: "loss" //loss的输出blob,即分类器的loss 值
}

2. loss function类型

粗略地讲,loss function是用来衡量估计值和真实值之间的误差情况的;在caffe中,包含了常用的loss function,目前主要有以下几种:

【Loss drives learning by comparing an output to a target and assigning cost to minimize. The loss itself is computed by the forward pass and the gradient w.r.t. to the loss is computed by the backward pass.】

(1)softmax:图像多类分类问题中主要就是用它

  • Layer type: SoftmaxWithLoss

(2)Sum-of-Squares / Euclidean:主要用在线性回归中

  • Layer type: EuclideanLoss

(3)Hinge / Margin:主要用在SVM分类器中

  • Layer type: HingeLoss

(4)Sigmoid Cross-Entropy

  • Layer type: SigmoidCrossEntropyLoss

(5)Infogain

  • Layer type: InfogainLoss
 参考:caffe tutorial