如何让我的神经网络正确地进行线性回归？

如何解决如何让我的神经网络正确地进行线性回归？

我使用了 Michael Nielsen 所著的《神经网络和深度学习》一书中的第一个神经网络代码，该代码用于识别手写数字。它使用带有小批量和 sigmoid 激活函数的随机梯度下降。我给了它一个输入神经元、两个隐藏神经元和一个输出神经元。然后我给它一堆数据，它代表一条直线，所以基本上是零到 1 之间的一些点，其中输入与输出相同。无论我如何调整学习率和使用的 epoch 数，网络永远无法进行线性回归。是因为我使用了 sigmoid 激活函数吗？如果是这样，我还可以使用哪些其他功能？

蓝线代表网络的预测，绿线是训练数据，网络预测的输入只是 0 到 3 之间的数字，间隔为 0.01。

代码如下：

"""
network.py
~~~~~~~~~~
A module to implement the stochastic gradient descent learning
algorithm for a feedforward neural network.  Gradients are calculated
using backpropagation.  Note that I have focused on making the code
simple,easily readable,and easily modifiable.  It is not optimized,and omits many desirable features.
"""

#### Libraries
# Standard library
import random

# Third-party libraries
import numpy as np

from sklearn.datasets import make_regression
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

class Network(object):

    def __init__(self,sizes):
        """The list ``sizes`` contains the number of neurons in the
        respective layers of the network.  For example,if the list
        was [2,3,1] then it would be a three-layer network,with the
        first layer containing 2 neurons,the second layer 3 neurons,and the third layer 1 neuron.  The biases and weights for the
        network are initialized randomly,using a Gaussian
        distribution with mean 0,and variance 1.  Note that the first
        layer is assumed to be an input layer,and by convention we
        won't set any biases for those neurons,since biases are only
        ever used in computing the outputs from later layers."""
        self.num_layers = len(sizes)
        self.sizes = sizes
        '''creates a list of arrays with random numbers with mean 0 and variance 1;
        These arrays represent the biases of each neuron in each layer so one random number is assigned per neuron in 
        each layer and every array represents one layer of biases
        '''
        self.biases = [np.random.randn(y,1) for y in sizes[1:]]
        self.weights = [np.random.randn(y,x)
                        for x,y in zip(sizes[:-1],sizes[1:])]

    #self always refers to an instance of a class
    def feedforward(self,a):
        # a are the activations of the neurons
        """Return the output of the network if ``a`` is input."""
        for b,w in zip(self.biases,self.weights):
            a = sigmoid(np.dot(w,a)+b)
            
        return a

    def SGD(self,training_data,epochs,mini_batch_size,eta,test_data=None):
        """Train the neural network using mini-batch stochastic
        gradient descent.  The ``training_data`` is a list of tuples
        ``(x,y)`` representing the training inputs and the desired
        outputs.  The other non-optional parameters are
        self-explanatory.  If ``test_data`` is provided then the
        network will be evaluated against the test data after each
        epoch,and partial progress printed out.  This is useful for
        tracking progress,but slows things down substantially."""
        if test_data: n_test = len(test_data)
        n = len(training_data)
        #this is done as many times as the number of epochs say -> that is how often the network is trained
        for j in range(epochs):
            random.shuffle(training_data)
            mini_batches = [
                training_data[k:k+mini_batch_size]
                for k in range(0,n,mini_batch_size)]
            #data is made into appropriately sized mini-batches
            for mini_batch in mini_batches:
                self.update_mini_batch(mini_batch,eta)
                for x,y in mini_batch:
                    print("Loss: ",(self.feedforward(x) - y)**2)
            if test_data:
                print ("Epoch {0}: {1} / {2}".format(
                    j,self.evaluate(test_data),n_test))
            else:
                print ("Epoch {0} complete".format(j))

    def update_mini_batch(self,mini_batch,eta):
        """Update the network's weights and biases by applying
        gradient descent using backpropagation to a single mini batch.
        The ``mini_batch`` is a list of tuples ``(x,y)``,and ``eta``
        is the learning rate."""
        #nabla_b and nabla_w are the same lists of matrices as "biases" and 
        #"weights" but all matrices are filled with zeroes; Thus,it is reset to 0 for every mini_batch.        
        nabla_b = [np.zeros(b.shape) for b in self.biases]
        nabla_w = [np.zeros(w.shape) for w in self.weights]
        for x,y in mini_batch:
            delta_nabla_b,delta_nabla_w = self.backprop(x,y)
            nabla_b = [nb+dnb for nb,dnb in zip(nabla_b,delta_nabla_b)]
            nabla_w = [nw+dnw for nw,dnw in zip(nabla_w,delta_nabla_w)]
        #updates the weights and biases by subtracting the average of the sum of the derivatives of the cost
        #function wrt to the biases/weights that were added for every training example in the mini_batch.
        self.weights = [w-(eta/len(mini_batch))*nw
                        for w,nw in zip(self.weights,nabla_w)]
        self.biases = [b-(eta/len(mini_batch))*nb
                       for b,nb in zip(self.biases,nabla_b)]

    def backprop(self,x,y):
        """Return a tuple ``(nabla_b,nabla_w)`` representing the
        gradient for the cost function C_x.  ``nabla_b`` and
        ``nabla_w`` are layer-by-layer lists of numpy arrays,similar
        to ``self.biases`` and ``self.weights``."""
        """Makes two lists filled with zeros in the same shape as biases and weights"""
        nabla_b = [np.zeros(b.shape) for b in self.biases]
        nabla_w = [np.zeros(w.shape) for w in self.weights]
        # feedforward
        activation = x
        activations = [x]
        zs = [] # list to store all the z vectors,layer by layer
        for b,self.weights):
            #multiplies w matrix for each layer by activation vector and adds bias
            z = np.dot(w,activation)+b
            zs.append(z)
            activation = sigmoid(z)
            activations.append(activation)
        # backward pass
        #this calculates the output error
        delta = self.cost_derivative(activations[-1],y) * \
            sigmoid_prime(zs[-1])
        #this is the derivative of the cost function wrt the biases in the last layer
        nabla_b[-1] = delta
        #this is the derivative of the cost function wrt the weights in the last layer
        nabla_w[-1] = np.dot(delta,activations[-2].transpose())
        for l in range(2,self.num_layers): #Code really is this: for l in range(2,self.num_layers):
            z = zs[-l]
            sp = sigmoid_prime(z)
            #This is the vector of errors of the layer -l
            delta = np.dot(self.weights[-l+1].transpose(),delta) * sp
            #fills the matrices nabla_b and nabla_w with the derivatives of the 
            #cost function with respect to the biases and weights in layers -l
            nabla_b[-l] = delta
            nabla_w[-l] = np.dot(delta,activations[-l-1].transpose())
        return (nabla_b,nabla_w)

    def evaluate(self,test_data):
        """Return the number of test inputs for which the neural
        network outputs the correct result. Note that the neural
        network's output is assumed to be the index of whichever
        neuron in the final layer has the highest activation."""
        test_results = [(np.argmax(self.feedforward(x)),y)
                        for (x,y) in test_data]
        #returns the number of inputs that were preducted correctly.
        return sum(int(x == y) for (x,y) in test_results)

    def cost_derivative(self,output_activations,y):
        """Return the vector of partial derivatives \partial C_x /
        \partial a for the output activations."""
        return (output_activations-y)

#### Miscellaneous functions
def sigmoid(z):
    """The sigmoid function.""" 
    return 1.0/(1.0+np.exp(-z))

def sigmoid_prime(z):
    """Derivative of the sigmoid function."""
    return sigmoid(z)*(1-sigmoid(z))

解决方法

Sigmoid 激活函数用于分类任务，在您的情况下是识别手写数字。而线性回归是回归任务，其中输出应该是连续的。如果您希望输出层充当回归，您应该使用 linear 激活函数，这是 Keras Dense 层的默认设置。