How to calculate F1 Macro in Keras?

Question

I've tried to use the code given from Keras before they're removed. Here's the code:

def precision(y_true, y_pred):
    true_positives = K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_true * y_pred, 0, 1)))
    predicted_positives = K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_pred, 0, 1)))
    precision = true_positives / (predicted_positives + K.epsilon())
    return precision

def recall(y_true, y_pred):
    true_positives = K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_true * y_pred, 0, 1)))
    possible_positives = K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_true, 0, 1)))
    recall = true_positives / (possible_positives + K.epsilon())
    return recall

def fbeta_score(y_true, y_pred, beta=1):
    if beta < 0:
        raise ValueError('The lowest choosable beta is zero (only precision).')

    # If there are no true positives, fix the F score at 0 like sklearn.
    if K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_true, 0, 1))) == 0:
        return 0

    p = precision(y_true, y_pred)
    r = recall(y_true, y_pred)
    bb = beta ** 2
    fbeta_score = (1 + bb) * (p * r) / (bb * p + r + K.epsilon())
    return fbeta_score

def fmeasure(y_true, y_pred):
    return fbeta_score(y_true, y_pred, beta=1)

From what I saw, it seems like they use the correct formula. But, when I tried to use it as a metric in the training process, I got exactly equal output for val_accuracy, val_precision, val_recall, and val_fmeasure. I do believe that it might happen even if the formula correct, but I believe it is unlikely. Any explanation for this issue?

Answer 1

since Keras 2.0 metrics f1, precision, and recall have been removed. The solution is to use a custom metric function:

from keras import backend as K

def f1(y_true, y_pred):
    def recall(y_true, y_pred):
        """Recall metric.

        Only computes a batch-wise average of recall.

        Computes the recall, a metric for multi-label classification of
        how many relevant items are selected.
        """
        true_positives = K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_true * y_pred, 0, 1)))
        possible_positives = K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_true, 0, 1)))
        recall = true_positives / (possible_positives + K.epsilon())
        return recall

    def precision(y_true, y_pred):
        """Precision metric.

        Only computes a batch-wise average of precision.

        Computes the precision, a metric for multi-label classification of
        how many selected items are relevant.
        """
        true_positives = K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_true * y_pred, 0, 1)))
        predicted_positives = K.sum(K.round(K.clip(y_pred, 0, 1)))
        precision = true_positives / (predicted_positives + K.epsilon())
        return precision
    precision = precision(y_true, y_pred)
    recall = recall(y_true, y_pred)
    return 2*((precision*recall)/(precision+recall+K.epsilon()))


model.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy',
          optimizer= "adam",
          metrics=[f1])

The return line of this function

return 2*((precision*recall)/(precision+recall+K.epsilon()))

was modified by adding the constant epsilon, in order to avoid division by 0. Thus NaN will not be computed.