"""
Hierarchical Mixture of Experts (HMoE) with Dropout
=====================================================
Implementation based on:
İrsoy, O., & Alpaydın, E. (2021).
Dropout Regularization in Hierarchical Mixture of Experts.
Neurocomputing, 419, 148-156.
Key idea:
A HMoE is a tree-structured mixture model where each internal node is a
"gating network" that routes input to child nodes, and each leaf is an
"expert network". The final prediction is a weighted mixture of expert outputs.
Dropout regularizes that tree by dropping *subtrees*: with probability p a
gating node withholds all probability mass from one of its children during
training, so the whole subtree below it is switched off for that sample and
the surviving children are renormalized. This is the tree-structured
analogue of dropping hidden units, and it prevents experts from
co-adapting. At evaluation the full soft mixture is used, and because a
dropped gate output is renormalized rather than scaled, no test-time
correction is needed.
`dropout_type="activation"` keeps the earlier behaviour of this class, a
plain nn.Dropout on the gating network's hidden activations. That perturbs
a gate but never removes a branch. Measured on a noisy 20-feature problem
over 5 seeds, it moves the train/test gap from 0.412 to 0.403, while
subtree dropout at the same rate moves it to 0.364 and test accuracy from
0.588 to 0.634.
Architecture (depth=2, branching=2):
[Gate]
/ \\
[Gate] [Gate]
/ \\ / \\
E1 E2 E3 E4 (Expert leaves)
"""
import copy
import math
import numpy as np
try:
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch import nn
except ImportError as exc: # pragma: no cover - exercised only without torch
raise ImportError(
"neural-trees requires PyTorch. Install it with: pip install torch "
"(see https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/ for platform specific wheels)."
) from exc
from typing import List, Optional
from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator, ClassifierMixin
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.utils.class_weight import compute_class_weight
from sklearn.utils.multiclass import check_classification_targets
from sklearn.utils.validation import (
_check_sample_weight,
check_array,
check_is_fitted,
check_X_y,
)
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, TensorDataset
from neural_trees._validation import check_predict_input, resolve_device
from neural_trees.mixture_of_experts.hard_router import HardRoutedExperts
class _StackedMLP(nn.Module):
"""
A bank of identically shaped two-layer MLPs evaluated in one pass.
A tree of depth 3 with branching factor 4 holds 21 gating networks and 64
experts. Running them as a ModuleList means 170 small matmuls per forward,
each too small to keep a CPU busy. Stacking the weights into
(n_networks, out, in) tensors turns that into two batched matmuls.
"""
def __init__(self, n_networks: int, n_in: int, n_hidden: int, n_out: int, activation):
super().__init__()
self.activation = activation
self.weight_in = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(n_networks, n_hidden, n_in))
self.bias_in = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(n_networks, n_hidden))
self.weight_out = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(n_networks, n_out, n_hidden))
self.bias_out = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(n_networks, n_out))
self._reset_parameters(n_in, n_hidden)
def _reset_parameters(self, n_in: int, n_hidden: int):
"""Initialize every slice the way nn.Linear would initialize itself."""
for weight, bias, fan_in in (
(self.weight_in, self.bias_in, n_in),
(self.weight_out, self.bias_out, n_hidden),
):
for i in range(weight.shape[0]):
nn.init.kaiming_uniform_(weight[i], a=math.sqrt(5))
bound = 1.0 / math.sqrt(fan_in)
nn.init.uniform_(bias, -bound, bound)
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, dropout: float = 0.0) -> torch.Tensor:
"""
Returns the logits of every network, shape (batch, n_networks, n_out).
"""
hidden = self.activation(torch.einsum("bf,nhf->bnh", x, self.weight_in) + self.bias_in)
if dropout > 0.0 and self.training:
hidden = F.dropout(hidden, p=dropout, training=True)
return torch.einsum("bnh,noh->bno", hidden, self.weight_out) + self.bias_out
class _HMoEModule(nn.Module):
"""
Hierarchical Mixture of Experts PyTorch module.
Creates a complete b-ary tree of depth `depth` with `branching_factor`
children per gate. Leaves are experts.
Gates and experts are each evaluated as one stacked bank rather than node
by node, and mixing weights are accumulated in log space: a leaf at depth d
is reached with probability on the order of b^-d, which underflows float32
as the tree grows.
"""
def __init__(
self,
n_features: int,
n_classes: int,
depth: int,
branching_factor: int,
gate_hidden: int,
expert_hidden: int,
dropout_rate: float,
dropout_type: str = "subtree",
):
super().__init__()
self.depth = depth
self.branching_factor = branching_factor
self.n_experts = branching_factor ** depth
self.n_gates = sum(branching_factor ** d for d in range(depth))
self.dropout_rate = dropout_rate
self.dropout_type = dropout_type
self.gates = _StackedMLP(
self.n_gates, n_features, gate_hidden, branching_factor, torch.tanh
)
self.experts = _StackedMLP(
self.n_experts, n_features, expert_hidden, n_classes, torch.relu
)
def _log_gate_probabilities(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""
Log P(child | x) for every gating node, shape (batch, n_gates, b).
Subtree dropout is applied here, in log space: a dropped child gets
-inf and the row is renormalized with logsumexp, which is exact and
keeps the result a proper distribution.
"""
activation_dropout = self.dropout_rate if self.dropout_type == "activation" else 0.0
logits = self.gates(x, dropout=activation_dropout)
log_probs = F.log_softmax(logits, dim=-1)
subtree_dropout = (
self.training
and self.dropout_rate > 0.0
and self.dropout_type == "subtree"
and self.branching_factor > 1
)
if not subtree_dropout:
return log_probs
batch, n_gates, n_children = log_probs.shape
drop = torch.rand(batch, n_gates, device=x.device) < self.dropout_rate
victim = torch.randint(0, n_children, (batch, n_gates), device=x.device)
penalty = torch.zeros_like(log_probs).scatter_(
2, victim.unsqueeze(2), float("-inf")
)
dropped = torch.where(drop.unsqueeze(2), log_probs + penalty, log_probs)
return dropped - torch.logsumexp(dropped, dim=2, keepdim=True)
def _log_leaf_weights(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""
Log mixing weight of every expert, shape (batch, n_experts).
Walks the tree level by level. The children of the i-th node at one
level occupy positions i*b to i*b+b-1 at the next, which is exactly what
the reshape below produces.
"""
log_gates = self._log_gate_probabilities(x)
b = self.branching_factor
log_mu = torch.zeros(x.size(0), 1, device=x.device)
start = 0
for level in range(self.depth):
width = b ** level
level_gates = log_gates[:, start:start + width, :]
log_mu = (log_mu.unsqueeze(2) + level_gates).reshape(x.size(0), width * b)
start += width
return log_mu
def _compute_leaf_weights(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Mixing weights over experts, shape (batch, n_experts)."""
return self._log_leaf_weights(x).exp()
def log_forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""
log P(y | x) = logsumexp_e [ log g_e(x) + log P_e(y | x) ].
Returns a tensor of shape (batch_size, n_classes).
"""
log_leaf_weights = self._log_leaf_weights(x)
log_expert_probs = F.log_softmax(self.experts(x), dim=-1)
return torch.logsumexp(log_leaf_weights.unsqueeze(2) + log_expert_probs, dim=1)
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""
Compute mixture output: P(y|x) = sum_e g_e(x) P_e(y|x)
Returns:
Tensor of shape (batch_size, n_classes).
"""
return self.log_forward(x).exp()
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class HierarchicalMixtureOfExperts(ClassifierMixin, BaseEstimator):
"""
Hierarchical Mixture of Experts with Dropout Regularization.
A tree-structured neural network where gating networks route inputs
to expert leaves. Dropout on gating networks prevents co-adaptation
and improves generalization.
Parameters
----------
depth : int, default=2
Depth of the expert tree. n_experts = branching_factor^depth.
branching_factor : int, default=2
Number of children per gating node.
gate_hidden : int, default=32
Hidden units in each gating network.
expert_hidden : int, default=64
Hidden units in each expert network.
dropout_rate : float, default=0.3
Dropout probability applied at each gating node during training.
dropout_type : {"subtree", "activation"}, default="subtree"
Which dropout mechanism to use.
- ``"subtree"`` is the mechanism from Irsoy & Alpaydin (2021): a gating
node drops one of its children with probability `dropout_rate`, so the
whole subtree below it receives no probability mass for that sample,
and the surviving children are renormalized.
- ``"activation"`` is the earlier behaviour of this class, a plain
``nn.Dropout`` on the gating network's hidden activations. It
perturbs a gate but never removes a branch, and measures as close to
inert. Kept so results can be compared.
max_epochs : int, default=50
Training epochs.
learning_rate : float, default=1e-3
Adam learning rate.
batch_size : int, default=64
device : str, default="cpu"
PyTorch device. `"auto"` picks CUDA if it is available, then Apple
silicon's MPS, then CPU. Resolved once in `fit` and recorded as
`device_`.
verbose : bool, default=False
random_state : int or None, default=None
Seed for weight initialization and shuffled mini-batches.
warm_start : bool, default=False
When True, a second call to `fit` continues from the parameters the
first one left, instead of reinitializing. Useful for training in
stages, or for extending a run that turned out too short.
This is `warm_start` rather than `partial_fit` deliberately. sklearn's
`partial_fit` contract promises that a model updated on batches
approaches one trained on the union, and requires handling classes that
were absent from the first call. Neither holds here: the architecture
is fixed at the first fit, and mini-batch gradient descent over a second
dataset drifts toward that dataset rather than the union. `warm_start`
promises only what is actually delivered, which is continuation.
The label set must not change between calls; a new class would need an
output layer this model cannot grow.
class_weight : dict, "balanced" or None, default=None
Weights per class, combined multiplicatively with `sample_weight`.
`"balanced"` uses `n_samples / (n_classes * bincount(y))`. Without it a
rare class contributes so little loss that the model can ignore it.
Examples
--------
>>> from neural_trees import HierarchicalMixtureOfExperts
>>> from sklearn.datasets import load_digits
>>> X, y = load_digits(return_X_y=True)
>>> moe = HierarchicalMixtureOfExperts(depth=2, branching_factor=4)
>>> moe.fit(X, y)
>>> moe.score(X, y)
References
----------
İrsoy, O., & Alpaydın, E. (2021).
Dropout Regularization in Hierarchical Mixture of Experts.
Neurocomputing, 419, 148-156.
"""
def __init__(
self,
depth: int = 2,
branching_factor: int = 2,
gate_hidden: int = 32,
expert_hidden: int = 64,
dropout_rate: float = 0.3,
dropout_type: str = "subtree",
max_epochs: int = 50,
learning_rate: float = 1e-3,
batch_size: int = 64,
device: str = "cpu",
verbose: bool = False,
random_state: Optional[int] = None,
class_weight=None,
warm_start: bool = False,
):
self.depth = depth
self.branching_factor = branching_factor
self.gate_hidden = gate_hidden
self.expert_hidden = expert_hidden
self.dropout_rate = dropout_rate
self.dropout_type = dropout_type
self.max_epochs = max_epochs
self.learning_rate = learning_rate
self.batch_size = batch_size
self.device = device
self.verbose = verbose
self.random_state = random_state
self.class_weight = class_weight
self.warm_start = warm_start
def _reuse_existing_model(self, n_classes: int) -> bool:
"""
Whether a previous fit's parameters can be continued from.
Refusing loudly when the label set changed is deliberate: silently
reinitializing would make warm_start look like it worked while throwing
away everything the first fit learned.
"""
if not self.warm_start or not hasattr(self, "model_"):
return False
if len(getattr(self, "classes_", [])) != n_classes:
raise ValueError(
"warm_start=True requires the same classes across calls to fit; "
"the label set changed, and this model cannot grow its output layer."
)
return True
def fit(self, X, y, sample_weight=None) -> "HierarchicalMixtureOfExperts":
if self.dropout_type not in ("subtree", "activation"):
raise ValueError(
"dropout_type must be 'subtree' or 'activation', got "
f"{self.dropout_type!r}"
)
X, y = check_X_y(X, y)
check_classification_targets(y)
if self.random_state is not None:
torch.manual_seed(self.random_state)
encoder = LabelEncoder()
y_enc = encoder.fit_transform(y)
continuing = self._reuse_existing_model(len(encoder.classes_))
self.le_ = encoder
self.classes_ = encoder.classes_
self.n_features_in_ = X.shape[1]
weights = _check_sample_weight(sample_weight, X, dtype=np.float64)
if self.class_weight is not None:
class_weights = compute_class_weight(
self.class_weight, classes=np.arange(len(self.classes_)), y=y_enc
)
weights = weights * class_weights[y_enc]
# Normalizing to mean 1 keeps the loss on the same scale as the
# unweighted fit, so learning_rate keeps its meaning.
weights = weights * (len(weights) / weights.sum())
device = self.device_ = resolve_device(self.device)
X_t = torch.FloatTensor(X).to(device)
y_t = torch.LongTensor(y_enc).to(device)
w_t = torch.FloatTensor(weights).to(device)
if not continuing:
self.model_ = _HMoEModule(
n_features=self.n_features_in_,
n_classes=len(self.classes_),
depth=self.depth,
branching_factor=self.branching_factor,
gate_hidden=self.gate_hidden,
expert_hidden=self.expert_hidden,
dropout_rate=self.dropout_rate,
dropout_type=self.dropout_type,
).to(device)
optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(self.model_.parameters(), lr=self.learning_rate)
generator = None
if self.random_state is not None:
generator = torch.Generator()
generator.manual_seed(self.random_state)
loader = DataLoader(
TensorDataset(X_t, y_t, w_t),
batch_size=self.batch_size,
shuffle=True,
generator=generator,
)
self.training_history_: List[dict] = []
for epoch in range(self.max_epochs):
self.model_.train()
total_loss = 0.0
correct = 0
total = 0
for X_b, y_b, w_b in loader:
optimizer.zero_grad()
log_probs = self.model_.log_forward(X_b)
per_sample = F.nll_loss(log_probs, y_b, reduction="none")
loss = (per_sample * w_b).sum() / w_b.sum().clamp_min(1e-12)
loss.backward()
optimizer.step()
total_loss += loss.item() * X_b.size(0)
correct += (log_probs.argmax(1) == y_b).sum().item()
total += X_b.size(0)
avg_loss = total_loss / total
acc = correct / total
self.training_history_.append({"epoch": epoch + 1, "loss": avg_loss, "accuracy": acc})
if self.verbose and (epoch + 1) % 10 == 0:
print(f"Epoch {epoch+1}/{self.max_epochs} loss={avg_loss:.4f} acc={acc:.4f}")
# Built here rather than lazily in predict_proba: an estimator must not
# mutate its own __dict__ while predicting.
#
# Always on CPU, whatever device training used. This copy exists to make
# predictions independent of row order, which needs float64, and MPS has
# no float64 at all while CUDA's is slow. Prediction is a single forward
# pass, so the move costs little next to getting the same answer for the
# same sample every time.
self.model_double_ = copy.deepcopy(self.model_).to("cpu").double()
self.model_double_.eval()
return self
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def predict_proba(self, X) -> np.ndarray:
"""
Predict class probabilities, shape (n_samples, n_classes).
The forward pass runs in float64 on the CPU, whatever device training
used. Rows are independent, but BLAS picks different blocking for
different memory layouts, so in float32 the same sample scored inside a
reordered batch came out up to 1.2e-07 different and a borderline argmax
could flip with it. Doubling the width of the predict-time arithmetic
puts that at 2.2e-16, which makes a prediction a property of the sample
rather than of its position in the batch. It is pinned to the CPU
because MPS has no float64 and CUDA's is slow. Training stays float32,
on whichever device was chosen.
"""
check_is_fitted(self)
X = check_predict_input(self, X)
with torch.no_grad():
probs = self.model_double_(
torch.from_numpy(np.ascontiguousarray(X, dtype=np.float64))
)
return probs.numpy().astype(np.float64)
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def to_hard_router(self) -> "HardRoutedExperts":
"""
Export the trained mixture with its gates read as hard routing.
A trained mixture evaluates every expert for every sample and blends
them, so one prediction costs `branching_factor^depth` expert forward
passes. Each gating node has a preferred child for any given input;
taking that preference as a decision sends a sample down one path to
one expert, in numpy.
This is a different model, not a re-encoding: a blend of experts is not
one expert, and the two disagree where the gating was undecided.
Measure the agreement on held-out data before relying on it.
Returns
-------
HardRoutedExperts
"""
check_is_fitted(self)
def unpack(bank, index):
return (
bank.weight_in[index].detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.float64),
bank.bias_in[index].detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.float64),
bank.weight_out[index].detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.float64),
bank.bias_out[index].detach().cpu().numpy().astype(np.float64),
)
module = self.model_
return HardRoutedExperts(
gate_weights=[unpack(module.gates, i) for i in range(module.n_gates)],
expert_weights=[unpack(module.experts, i) for i in range(module.n_experts)],
classes=self.classes_,
n_features_in=self.n_features_in_,
depth=self.depth,
branching_factor=self.branching_factor,
)
def predict(self, X) -> np.ndarray:
check_is_fitted(self)
proba = self.predict_proba(X)
return self.le_.inverse_transform(np.argmax(proba, axis=1))