I saw in one of the examples that the functional API was used to implement dropout for a conv layer but not for the fully connected layer. Was wondering if this has a specific reason? I pasted the code below
source: https://github.com/pytorch/examples/blob/master/mnist/main.py
class Net(nn.Module):
def __init__(self):
super(Net, self).__init__()
self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(1, 10, kernel_size=5)
self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(10, 20, kernel_size=5)
self.conv2_drop = nn.Dropout2d()
self.fc1 = nn.Linear(320, 50)
self.fc2 = nn.Linear(50, 10)
def forward(self, x):
x = F.relu(F.max_pool2d(self.conv1(x), 2))
x = F.relu(F.max_pool2d(self.conv2_drop(self.conv2(x)), 2))
x = x.view(-1, 320)
x = F.relu(self.fc1(x))
x = F.dropout(x, training=self.training)
x = F.relu(self.fc2(x))
return F.log_softmax(x)
Am I correct that this is the same as the following code?
class Net(nn.Module):
def __init__(self):
super(Net, self).__init__()
self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(1, 10, kernel_size=5)
self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(10, 20, kernel_size=5)
self.conv2_drop = nn.Dropout2d()
self.fc1 = nn.Linear(320, 50)
self.fc1_drop = nn.Dropout(p=0.5) # added this line
self.fc2 = nn.Linear(50, 10)
def forward(self, x):
x = F.relu(F.max_pool2d(self.conv1(x), 2))
x = F.relu(F.max_pool2d(self.conv2_drop(self.conv2(x)), 2))
x = x.view(-1, 320)
x = F.relu(self.fc1(x))
x = self.fc1_drop(x) # added this line
#x = F.dropout(x, training=self.training) # removed this line
x = F.relu(self.fc2(x))
return F.log_softmax(x)
I am curious, did you chose this example for demonstration purposes, using nn
and using the functional API, or does this have some performance (or other) reasons?