Not All Unlabeled Data are Equal:
Learning to Weight Data in Semi-supervised Learning

This code is for paper:
Not All Unlabeled Data are Equal: Learning to Weight Data in Semi-supervised Learning. Zhongzheng Ren*, Raymond A. Yeh*, Alexander G. Schwing. NeurIPS'20. (*equal contribtion)

Setup

Important: ML_DATA is a shell environment variable that should point to the location where the datasets are installed. See the Install datasets section for more details.

Environement*: this code is tested using python-3.7, anaconda3-5.0.1, cuda-10.0, cudnn-v7.6, tensorflow-1.15

Install dependencies

conda create -n semi-sup python=3.7
conda activate semi-sup
pip install -r requirements.txt

make sure tf.test.is_gpu_available() == True after installation so that GPUs will be used.

Install datasets

export ML_DATA="path to where you want the datasets saved"
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:"path to this repo"

# Download datasets
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES= ./scripts/create_datasets.py
cp $ML_DATA/svhn-test.tfrecord $ML_DATA/svhn_noextra-test.tfrecord

# Create unlabeled datasets
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES= scripts/create_unlabeled.py $ML_DATA/SSL2/cifar10 $ML_DATA/cifar10-train.tfrecord
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES= scripts/create_unlabeled.py $ML_DATA/SSL2/svhn $ML_DATA/svhn-train.tfrecord $ML_DATA/svhn-extra.tfrecord
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES= scripts/create_unlabeled.py $ML_DATA/SSL2/svhn_noextra $ML_DATA/svhn-train.tfrecord

# Create semi-supervised subsets
for seed in 0 1 2 3 4 5; do
    for size in 250 1000 4000; do
        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES= scripts/create_split.py --seed=$seed --size=$size $ML_DATA/SSL2/cifar10 $ML_DATA/cifar10-train.tfrecord
        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES= scripts/create_split.py --seed=$seed --size=$size $ML_DATA/SSL2/svhn $ML_DATA/svhn-train.tfrecord $ML_DATA/svhn-extra.tfrecord
        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES= scripts/create_split.py --seed=$seed --size=$size $ML_DATA/SSL2/svhn_noextra $ML_DATA/svhn-train.tfrecord
    done
done

Running

Setup

All commands must be ran from the project root. The following environment variables must be defined:

export ML_DATA="path to where you want the datasets saved"
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:"path to this repo"

Example

For example, train a model with 32 filters on cifar10 shuffled with seed=1, 250 labeled samples and 1000 validation sample:

# single-gpu
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python main.py --filters=32 --dataset=cifar10.1@250-1000 --train_dir ./experiments

# multi-gpu: just pass more GPUs and the model automatically scales to them, here we assign GPUs 0-1 to the program:
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 python main.py --filters=32 --dataset=cifar10.1@250-1000 --train_dir ./experiments

Naming rule: ${dataset}.${seed}@${size}-${valid}

Available labelled sizes are 250, 1000, 4000.

For validation, available sizes are 1000, 5000.

Possible shuffling seeds are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 0 for no shuffling (0 is not used in practiced since data requires to be
shuffled for gradient descent to work properly).

Image classification

The hyper-parameters used in the paper:

# 2GPU setting is recommended
for seed in 1 2 3 4 5; do
    for size in 250 1000 4000; do
    CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 python main.py --filters=32 \
        --dataset=cifar10.${seed}@${size}-1000 \
        --train_dir ./experiments --alpha 0.01 --inner_steps 512
    done
done

Flags

python main.py --help
# The following option might be too slow to be really practical.
# python main.py --helpfull
# So instead I use this hack to find the flags:
fgrep -R flags.DEFINE libml main.py

Monitoring training progress

You can point tensorboard to the training folder (by default it is --train_dir=./experiments) to monitor the training
process:

tensorboard.sh --port 6007 --logdir ./experiments

Checkpoint accuracy

We compute the median accuracy of the last 20 checkpoints in the paper, this is done through this code:

# Following the previous example in which we trained cifar10.1@250-1000, extracting accuracy:
./scripts/extract_accuracy.py ./experiments/cifar10.d.d.d.1@250-1000/CTAugment_depth2_th0.80_decay0.990/FixMatch_alpha0.01_archresnet_batch64_confidence0.95_filters32_inf_warm0_inner_steps100_lr0.03_nclass10_repeat4_scales3_size_unlabeled49000_uratio7_wd0.0005_wu1.0
# The command above will create a stats/accuracy.json file in the model folder.
# The format is JSON so you can either see its content as a text file or process it to your liking.

Use you own data

  1. You first need to creat *.tfrecord for the labeled and unlabled data; please check scripts/create_datasets.py and scripts/create_unlabeled.py for examples.
  2. Then you need to creat the splits for semi-supervied learning; see scripts/create_split.py.
  3. modify libml/data.py to support the new dataset. Specifically, check this function and this class.
  4. tune hyper-parameters (e.g., learning rate, num_epochs, etc.) to achieve the best results.

Note: our algorithm involves approximation of inverse-Hessian and computation of per-example gradients. Therefore, running on a dataset with large number of classes will be computationally heavy in terms of both speed and memory.

License

Please check LICENSE

Citing this work

If you use this code for your research, please cite our paper.

@inproceedings{ren-ssl2020,
  title = {Not All Unlabeled Data are Equal: Learning to Weight Data in Semi-supervised Learning},
  author = {Zhongzheng Ren$^\ast$ and Raymond A. Yeh$^\ast$ and Alexander G. Schwing},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2020},
  note = {$^\ast$ equal contribution},
}

Acknowledgement

The code is built based on:
FixMatch (commit: 08d9b83)

FixMatch: Simplifying Semi-Supervised Learning with Consistency and Confidence. Kihyuk Sohn, David Berthelot, Chun-Liang Li, Zizhao Zhang, Nicholas Carlini, Ekin D. Cubuk, Alex Kurakin, Han Zhang, and Colin Raffel.

GitHub

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