keras: R Interface to 'Keras'

#' Trains a LSTM on the IMDB sentiment classification task.
#' 
#' The dataset is actually too small for LSTM to be of any advantage compared to
#' simpler, much faster methods such as TF-IDF + LogReg.
#' 
#' Notes:
#' - RNNs are tricky. Choice of batch size is important, choice of loss and
#'   optimizer is critical, etc. Some configurations won't converge.
#' - LSTM loss decrease patterns during training can be quite different from
#'   what you see with CNNs/MLPs/etc.

library(keras)

max_features <- 20000
batch_size <- 32

# Cut texts after this number of words (among top max_features most common words)
maxlen <- 80  

cat('Loading data...\n')
imdb <- dataset_imdb(num_words = max_features)
x_train <- imdb$train$x
y_train <- imdb$train$y
x_test <- imdb$test$x
y_test <- imdb$test$y

cat(length(x_train), 'train sequences\n')
cat(length(x_test), 'test sequences\n')

cat('Pad sequences (samples x time)\n')
x_train <- pad_sequences(x_train, maxlen = maxlen)
x_test <- pad_sequences(x_test, maxlen = maxlen)
cat('x_train shape:', dim(x_train), '\n')
cat('x_test shape:', dim(x_test), '\n')

cat('Build model...\n')
model <- keras_model_sequential()
model %>%
  layer_embedding(input_dim = max_features, output_dim = 128) %>% 
  layer_lstm(units = 64, dropout = 0.2, recurrent_dropout = 0.2) %>% 
  layer_dense(units = 1, activation = 'sigmoid')

# Try using different optimizers and different optimizer configs
model %>% compile(
  loss = 'binary_crossentropy',
  optimizer = 'adam',
  metrics = c('accuracy')
)

cat('Train...\n')
model %>% fit(
  x_train, y_train,
  batch_size = batch_size,
  epochs = 15,
  validation_data = list(x_test, y_test)
)

scores <- model %>% evaluate(
  x_test, y_test,
  batch_size = batch_size
)

cat('Test score:', scores[[1]])
cat('Test accuracy', scores[[2]])