utils.py

from mxnet import ndarray as nd
from mxnet import gluon
import mxnet as mx

def SGD(params, lr):
    for param in params:
        param[:] = param - lr * param.grad

def accuracy(output, label):
    return nd.mean(output.argmax(axis=1)==label).asscalar()

def evaluate_accuracy(data_iterator, net, ctx=mx.cpu()):
    acc = 0.
    for data, label in data_iterator:
        output = net(data.as_in_context(ctx))
        acc += accuracy(output, label.as_in_context(ctx))
    return acc / len(data_iterator)

def transform_mnist(data, label):
    # change data from height x weight x channel to channel x height x weight
    return nd.transpose(data.astype('float32'), (2,0,1))/255, label.astype('float32')


def load_data_fashion_mnist(batch_size):
    """download the fashion mnist dataest and then load into memory"""
    mnist_train = gluon.data.vision.FashionMNIST(
        train=True, transform=transform_mnist)
    mnist_test = gluon.data.vision.FashionMNIST(
        train=False, transform=transform_mnist)
    train_data = gluon.data.DataLoader(
        mnist_train, batch_size, shuffle=True)
    test_data = gluon.data.DataLoader(
        mnist_test, batch_size, shuffle=False)
    return (train_data, test_data)

def try_gpu():
    """If GPU is available, return mx.gpu(0); else return mx.cpu()"""
    try:
        ctx = mx.gpu()
        _ = nd.zeros((1,), ctx=ctx)
    except:
        ctx = mx.cpu()
    return ctx