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Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA

You're reading from   Hands-On GPU Programming with Python and CUDA Explore high-performance parallel computing with CUDA

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993913
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Brian Tuomanen Dr. Brian Tuomanen
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Preface 1. Why GPU Programming? FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your GPU Programming Environment 3. Getting Started with PyCUDA 4. Kernels, Threads, Blocks, and Grids 5. Streams, Events, Contexts, and Concurrency 6. Debugging and Profiling Your CUDA Code 7. Using the CUDA Libraries with Scikit-CUDA 8. The CUDA Device Function Libraries and Thrust 9. Implementation of a Deep Neural Network 10. Working with Compiled GPU Code 11. Performance Optimization in CUDA 12. Where to Go from Here 13. Assessment 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementation of Cross-Entropy loss

Now, let's implement what is known as the cross-entropy loss function. This is used to measure how accurate an NN is on a small subset of data points during the training process; the bigger the value that is output by our loss function, the more inaccurate our NN is at properly classifying the given data. We do this by calculating a standard mean log-entropy difference between the expected output and the actual output of the NN. For numerical stability, we will limit the value of the output to 1:

MAX_ENTROPY = 1

def cross_entropy(predictions=None, ground_truth=None):

if predictions is None or ground_truth is None:
raise Exception("Error! Both predictions and ground truth must be float32 arrays")

p = np.array(predictions).copy()
y = np.array(ground_truth).copy()

if p.shape != y.shape:
raise Exception("Error! Both predictions...
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