tf.contrib.opt.ExternalOptimizerInterface

Class ExternalOptimizerInterface

Defined in tensorflow/contrib/opt/python/training/external_optimizer.py.

Base class for interfaces with external optimization algorithms.

Subclass this and implement _minimize in order to wrap a new optimization algorithm.

ExternalOptimizerInterface should not be instantiated directly; instead use e.g. ScipyOptimizerInterface.

__init__

__init__(
    loss,
    var_list=None,
    equalities=None,
    inequalities=None,
    var_to_bounds=None,
    **optimizer_kwargs
)

Initialize a new interface instance.

Args:

• loss: A scalar Tensor to be minimized.
• var_list: Optional list of Variable objects to update to minimize loss. Defaults to the list of variables collected in the graph under the key GraphKeys.TRAINABLE_VARIABLES.
• equalities: Optional list of equality constraint scalar Tensors to be held equal to zero.
• inequalities: Optional list of inequality constraint scalar Tensors to be held nonnegative.
• var_to_bounds: Optional dict where each key is an optimization Variable and each corresponding value is a length-2 tuple of (low, high) bounds. Although enforcing this kind of simple constraint could be accomplished with the inequalities arg, not all optimization algorithms support general inequality constraints, e.g. L-BFGS-B. Both low and high can either be numbers or anything convertible to a NumPy array that can be broadcast to the shape of var (using np.broadcast_to). To indicate that there is no bound, use None (or +/- np.infty). For example, if var is a 2x3 matrix, then any of the following corresponding bounds could be supplied:
  • (0, np.infty): Each element of var held positive.
  • (-np.infty, [1, 2]): First column less than 1, second column less than 2.
  • (-np.infty, [[1], [2], [3]]): First row less than 1, second row less than 2, etc.
  • (-np.infty, [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]): Entry var[0, 0] less than 1, var[0, 1] less than 2, etc.
• **optimizer_kwargs: Other subclass-specific keyword arguments.

Methods

tf.contrib.opt.ExternalOptimizerInterface.minimize

minimize(
    session=None,
    feed_dict=None,
    fetches=None,
    step_callback=None,
    loss_callback=None,
    **run_kwargs
)

Minimize a scalar Tensor.

Variables subject to optimization are updated in-place at the end of optimization.

Note that this method does not just return a minimization Op, unlike Optimizer.minimize(); instead it actually performs minimization by executing commands to control a Session.

Args:

• session: A Session instance.
• feed_dict: A feed dict to be passed to calls to session.run.
• fetches: A list of Tensors to fetch and supply to loss_callback as positional arguments.
• step_callback: A function to be called at each optimization step; arguments are the current values of all optimization variables flattened into a single vector.
• loss_callback: A function to be called every time the loss and gradients are computed, with evaluated fetches supplied as positional arguments.
• **run_kwargs: kwargs to pass to session.run.