pythonpytorchloss-function

Why I am getting IndexError


Why following code:

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

input_tensor = torch.tensor([[2.0]])
target_tensor = torch.tensor([0], dtype=torch.long)
loss_function = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
loss = loss_function(input_tensor, target_tensor)
print(loss)


input_tensor = torch.tensor([[2.0]])
target_tensor = torch.tensor([1], dtype=torch.long)
loss_function = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
loss = loss_function(input_tensor, target_tensor)
print(loss)

showing following error:

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IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[214], line 14
     12 target_tensor = torch.tensor([1], dtype=torch.long)
     13 loss_function = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
---> 14 loss = loss_function(input_tensor, target_tensor)
     15 print(loss)

File ~/jupyter-env-3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py:1110, in Module._call_impl(self, *input, **kwargs)
   1106 # If we don't have any hooks, we want to skip the rest of the logic in
   1107 # this function, and just call forward.
   1108 if not (self._backward_hooks or self._forward_hooks or self._forward_pre_hooks or _global_backward_hooks
   1109         or _global_forward_hooks or _global_forward_pre_hooks):
-> 1110     return forward_call(*input, **kwargs)
   1111 # Do not call functions when jit is used
   1112 full_backward_hooks, non_full_backward_hooks = [], []

File ~/jupyter-env-3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/loss.py:1163, in CrossEntropyLoss.forward(self, input, target)
   1162 def forward(self, input: Tensor, target: Tensor) -> Tensor:
-> 1163     return F.cross_entropy(input, target, weight=self.weight,
   1164                            ignore_index=self.ignore_index, reduction=self.reduction,
   1165                            label_smoothing=self.label_smoothing)

File ~/jupyter-env-3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/functional.py:2996, in cross_entropy(input, target, weight, size_average, ignore_index, reduce, reduction, label_smoothing)
   2994 if size_average is not None or reduce is not None:
   2995     reduction = _Reduction.legacy_get_string(size_average, reduce)
-> 2996 return torch._C._nn.cross_entropy_loss(input, target, weight, _Reduction.get_enum(reduction), ignore_index, label_smoothing)

IndexError: Target 1 is out of bounds.

Solution

  • This is because input_tensor is a class probability. And if the target class is 1 then input_tensor should have length of at least two (probability of the class 0 and probability of the class 1)

    import torch
    import torch.nn as nn
    
    predicted_class_probs = torch.tensor([[2.0]])
    target_tensor = torch.tensor([0], dtype=torch.long)
    loss_function = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
    loss = loss_function(predicted_class_probs, target_tensor)
    print(loss)
    
    
    predicted_class_probs = torch.tensor([[2.0, 3.3]])
    target_tensor = torch.tensor([1], dtype=torch.long)
    loss_function = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
    loss = loss_function(predicted_class_probs, target_tensor)
    print(loss)