[python] How to return history of validation loss in Keras

Using Anaconda Python 2.7 Windows 10.

I am training a language model using the Keras exmaple:

print('Build model...')
model = Sequential()
model.add(GRU(512, return_sequences=True, input_shape=(maxlen, len(chars))))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(GRU(512, return_sequences=False))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(Dense(len(chars)))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))

model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='rmsprop')

def sample(a, temperature=1.0):
    # helper function to sample an index from a probability array
    a = np.log(a) / temperature
    a = np.exp(a) / np.sum(np.exp(a))
    return np.argmax(np.random.multinomial(1, a, 1))


# train the model, output generated text after each iteration
for iteration in range(1, 3):
    print()
    print('-' * 50)
    print('Iteration', iteration)
    model.fit(X, y, batch_size=128, nb_epoch=1)
    start_index = random.randint(0, len(text) - maxlen - 1)

    for diversity in [0.2, 0.5, 1.0, 1.2]:
        print()
        print('----- diversity:', diversity)

        generated = ''
        sentence = text[start_index: start_index + maxlen]
        generated += sentence
        print('----- Generating with seed: "' + sentence + '"')
        sys.stdout.write(generated)

        for i in range(400):
            x = np.zeros((1, maxlen, len(chars)))
            for t, char in enumerate(sentence):
                x[0, t, char_indices[char]] = 1.

            preds = model.predict(x, verbose=0)[0]
            next_index = sample(preds, diversity)
            next_char = indices_char[next_index]

            generated += next_char
            sentence = sentence[1:] + next_char

            sys.stdout.write(next_char)
            sys.stdout.flush()
        print()

According to Keras documentation, the model.fit method returns a History callback, which has a history attribute containing the lists of successive losses and other metrics.

hist = model.fit(X, y, validation_split=0.2)
print(hist.history)

After training my model, if I run print(model.history) I get the error:

 AttributeError: 'Sequential' object has no attribute 'history'

How do I return my model history after training my model with the above code?

UPDATE

The issue was that:

The following had to first be defined:

from keras.callbacks import History 
history = History()

The callbacks option had to be called

model.fit(X_train, Y_train, nb_epoch=5, batch_size=16, callbacks=[history])

But now if I print

print(history.History)

it returns

{}

even though I ran an iteration.

For plotting the loss directly the following works:

model_ = model.fit(X, Y, epochs= ..., verbose=1 )
plt.plot(list(model_.history.values())[0],'k-o')

I have also found that you can use verbose=2 to make keras print out the Losses:

history = model.fit(X, Y, validation_split=0.33, nb_epoch=150, batch_size=10, verbose=2)

And that would print nice lines like this:

Epoch 1/1
 - 5s - loss: 0.6046 - acc: 0.9999 - val_loss: 0.4403 - val_acc: 0.9999

According to their documentation:

verbose: 0, 1, or 2. Verbosity mode. 0 = silent, 1 = progress bar, 2 = one line per epoch.

Actually, you can also do it with the iteration method. Because sometimes we might need to use the iteration method instead of the built-in epochs method to visualize the training results after each iteration.

history = [] #Creating a empty list for holding the loss later
for iteration in range(1, 3):
    print()
    print('-' * 50)
    print('Iteration', iteration)
    result = model.fit(X, y, batch_size=128, nb_epoch=1) #Obtaining the loss after each training
    history.append(result.history['loss']) #Now append the loss after the training to the list.
    start_index = random.randint(0, len(text) - maxlen - 1)
print(history)

This way allows you to get the loss you want while maintaining your iteration method.

The following simple code works great for me:

    seqModel =model.fit(x_train, y_train,
          batch_size      = batch_size,
          epochs          = num_epochs,
          validation_data = (x_test, y_test),
          shuffle         = True,
          verbose=0, callbacks=[TQDMNotebookCallback()]) #for visualization

Make sure you assign the fit function to an output variable. Then you can access that variable very easily

# visualizing losses and accuracy
train_loss = seqModel.history['loss']
val_loss   = seqModel.history['val_loss']
train_acc  = seqModel.history['acc']
val_acc    = seqModel.history['val_acc']
xc         = range(num_epochs)

plt.figure()
plt.plot(xc, train_loss)
plt.plot(xc, val_loss)

Hope this helps. source: https://keras.io/getting-started/faq/#how-can-i-record-the-training-validation-loss-accuracy-at-each-epoch

The dictionary with histories of "acc", "loss", etc. is available and saved in hist.history variable.

Thanks to Alloush,

Following parameter must be included in model.fit():

validation_data = (x_test, y_test)

If it is not defined, val_acc and val_loss will not be exist at output.

Another option is CSVLogger: https://keras.io/callbacks/#csvlogger. It creates a csv file appending the result of each epoch. Even if you interrupt training, you get to see how it evolved.

Just an example started from

history = model.fit(X, Y, validation_split=0.33, nb_epoch=150, batch_size=10, verbose=0)

You can use

print(history.history.keys())

to list all data in history.

Then, you can print the history of validation loss like this:

print(history.history['val_loss'])

Those who got still error like me:

Convert model.fit_generator() to model.fit()