Keras custom RMSLE metric

Question

How do I implement this metric in Keras? My code below gives the wrong result! Note that I'm undoing a previous log(x + 1) transformation via exp(x) - 1, also negative predictions are clipped to 0:

def rmsle_cust(y_true, y_pred):
    first_log = K.clip(K.exp(y_pred) - 1.0, 0, None)
    second_log = K.clip(K.exp(y_true) - 1.0, 0, None)
    return K.sqrt(K.mean(K.square(K.log(first_log + 1.) - K.log(second_log + 1.)), axis=-1)

For comparison, here's the standard numpy implementation:

def rmsle_cust_py(y, y_pred, **kwargs):
    # undo 1 + log
    y = np.exp(y) - 1
    y_pred = np.exp(y_pred) - 1

    y_pred[y_pred < 0] = 0.0
    to_sum = [(math.log(y_pred[i] + 1) - math.log(y[i] + 1)) ** 2.0 for i,pred in enumerate(y_pred)]
    return (sum(to_sum) * (1.0/len(y))) ** 0.5

What I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

EDIT: Setting axis=0 seems to give a value very close to the correct one, but I'm not sure since all the code I've seem uses axis=-1.

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem and searched for it, here is what I found

https://www.kaggle.com/jpopham91/rmlse-vectorized

After modified a bit, this seems to work for me,rmsle_K method implemented with Keras and TensorFlow.

import numpy as np
import math
from keras import backend as K
import tensorflow as tf

def rmsle(y, y0):
    assert len(y) == len(y0)
    return np.sqrt(np.mean(np.power(np.log1p(y)-np.log1p(y0), 2)))

def rmsle_loop(y, y0):
    assert len(y) == len(y0)
    terms_to_sum = [(math.log(y0[i] + 1) - math.log(y[i] + 1)) ** 2.0 for i,pred in enumerate(y0)]
    return (sum(terms_to_sum) * (1.0/len(y))) ** 0.5

def rmsle_K(y, y0):
    return K.sqrt(K.mean(K.square(tf.log1p(y) - tf.log1p(y0))))

r = rmsle(y=[5, 20, 12], y0=[8, 16, 12])
r1 = rmsle_loop(y=[5, 20, 12], y0=[8, 16, 12])
r2 = rmsle_K(y=[5., 20., 12.], y0=[8., 16., 12.])

print(r)

print(r1)

sess = tf.Session()

print(sess.run(r2))

Result:

Using TensorFlow backend

0.263978210565

0.263978210565

0.263978