classificationLayer

Classification output layer

Syntax

layer = classificationLayer

layer = classificationLayer(Name,Value)

Description

A classification layer computes the cross-entropy loss for classification and weighted classification tasks with mutually exclusive classes.

The layer infers the number of classes from the output size of the previous layer. For example, to specify the number of classes K of the network, you can include a fully connected layer with output size K and a softmax layer before the classification layer.

layer = classificationLayer creates a classification layer.

layer = classificationLayer(Name,Value) sets the optional Name, ClassWeights, and Classes properties using one or more name-value pairs. For example, classificationLayer('Name','output') creates a classification layer with the name 'output'.

Examples

Create Classification Layer

Create a classification layer with the name 'output'.

layer = classificationLayer('Name','output')

layer = 
  ClassificationOutputLayer with properties:

            Name: 'output'
         Classes: 'auto'
    ClassWeights: 'none'
      OutputSize: 'auto'

   Hyperparameters
    LossFunction: 'crossentropyex'

Include a classification output layer in a Layer array.

layers = [ ...
    imageInputLayer([28 28 1])
    convolution2dLayer(5,20)
    reluLayer
    maxPooling2dLayer(2,'Stride',2)
    fullyConnectedLayer(10)
    softmaxLayer
    classificationLayer]

layers = 
  7x1 Layer array with layers:

     1   ''   Image Input             28x28x1 images with 'zerocenter' normalization
     2   ''   2-D Convolution         20 5x5 convolutions with stride [1  1] and padding [0  0  0  0]
     3   ''   ReLU                    ReLU
     4   ''   2-D Max Pooling         2x2 max pooling with stride [2  2] and padding [0  0  0  0]
     5   ''   Fully Connected         10 fully connected layer
     6   ''   Softmax                 softmax
     7   ''   Classification Output   crossentropyex

Create Weighted Classification Layer

Create a weighted classification layer for three classes with names "cat", "dog", and "fish", with weights 0.7, 0.2, and 0.1, respectively.

classes = ["cat" "dog" "fish"];
classWeights = [0.7 0.2 0.1];

layer = classificationLayer( ...
    'Classes',classes, ...
    'ClassWeights',classWeights)

layer = 
  ClassificationOutputLayer with properties:

            Name: ''
         Classes: [cat    dog    fish]
    ClassWeights: [3x1 double]
      OutputSize: 3

   Hyperparameters
    LossFunction: 'crossentropyex'

Include a weighted classification output layer in a Layer array.

numClasses = numel(classes);

layers = [ ...
    imageInputLayer([28 28 1])
    convolution2dLayer(5,20)
    reluLayer
    maxPooling2dLayer(2,'Stride',2)
    fullyConnectedLayer(numClasses)
    softmaxLayer
    classificationLayer('Classes',classes,'ClassWeights',classWeights)]

layers = 
  7x1 Layer array with layers:

     1   ''   Image Input             28x28x1 images with 'zerocenter' normalization
     2   ''   2-D Convolution         20 5x5 convolutions with stride [1  1] and padding [0  0  0  0]
     3   ''   ReLU                    ReLU
     4   ''   2-D Max Pooling         2x2 max pooling with stride [2  2] and padding [0  0  0  0]
     5   ''   Fully Connected         3 fully connected layer
     6   ''   Softmax                 softmax
     7   ''   Classification Output   Class weighted crossentropyex with 'cat' and 2 other classes

Input Arguments

Name-Value Arguments

Specify optional pairs of arguments as Name1=Value1,...,NameN=ValueN, where Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name-value arguments must appear after other arguments, but the order of the pairs does not matter.

Before R2021a, use commas to separate each name and value, and enclose Name in quotes.

Example: classificationLayer('Name','output') creates a classification layer with the name 'output'

Name — Layer name

'' (default) | character vector | string scalar

Layer name, specified as a character vector or a string scalar. For Layer array input, the trainNetwork, assembleNetwork, layerGraph, and dlnetwork functions automatically assign names to layers with the name ''.

Data Types: char | string

ClassWeights — Class weights for weighted cross-entropy loss

'none' (default) | vector of positive numbers

Class weights for weighted cross-entropy loss, specified as a vector of positive numbers or 'none'.

For vector class weights, each element represents the weight for the corresponding class in the Classes property. To specify a vector of class weights, you must also specify the classes using 'Classes'.

If the ClassWeights property is 'none', then the layer applies unweighted cross-entropy loss.

Classes — Classes of the output layer

"auto" (default) | categorical vector | string array | cell array of character vectors

Classes of the output layer, specified as a categorical vector, string array, cell array of character vectors, or "auto". If Classes is "auto", then the software automatically sets the classes at training time. If you specify the string array or cell array of character vectors str, then the software sets the classes of the output layer to categorical(str,str).

Data Types: char | categorical | string | cell

Output Arguments

layer — Classification layer

ClassificationOutputLayer object

Classification layer, returned as a ClassificationOutputLayer object.

For information on concatenating layers to construct convolutional neural network architecture, see Layer.

More About

Classification Layer

A classification layer computes the cross-entropy loss for classification and weighted classification tasks with mutually exclusive classes.

For typical classification networks, the classification layer usually follows a softmax layer. In the classification layer, trainNetwork takes the values from the softmax function and assigns each input to one of the K mutually exclusive classes using the cross entropy function for a 1-of-K coding scheme [1]:

$$\text{loss}=-\frac{1}{N}{\displaystyle \sum _{n=1}^N{\displaystyle \sum }_{i=1}^K}\text{}{w}_i{\text{t}}_{ni}\ln y_{ni},$$

where N is the number of samples, K is the number of classes, $$w_i$$ is the weight for class i, $$t_{ni}$$ is the indicator that the nth sample belongs to the ith class, and $$y_{ni}$$ is the output for sample n for class i, which in this case, is the value from the softmax function. In other words, $$y_{ni}$$ is the probability that the network associates the nth input with class i.

References

[1] Bishop, C. M. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Springer, New York, NY, 2006.

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Version History

Introduced in R2016a