How to fix RuntimeError “Expected object of scalar

问题:

I'm trying to train a classifier via PyTorch. However, I am experiencing problems with training when I feed the model with training data. I get this error on y_pred = model(X_trainTensor):

RuntimeError: Expected object of scalar type Float but got scalar type Double for argument #4 'mat1'

Here are key parts of my code:

# Hyper-parameters 
D_in = 47  # there are 47 parameters I investigate
H = 33
D_out = 2  # output should be either 1 or 0

# Format and load the data
y = np.array( df['target'] )
X = np.array( df.drop(columns = ['target'], axis = 1) )
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, train_size = 0.8)  # split training/test data

X_trainTensor = torch.from_numpy(X_train) # convert to tensors
y_trainTensor = torch.from_numpy(y_train)
X_testTensor = torch.from_numpy(X_test)
y_testTensor = torch.from_numpy(y_test)

# Define the model
model = torch.nn.Sequential(
    torch.nn.Linear(D_in, H),
    torch.nn.ReLU(),
    torch.nn.Linear(H, D_out),
    nn.LogSoftmax(dim = 1)
)

# Define the loss function
loss_fn = torch.nn.NLLLoss() 

for i in range(50):
    y_pred = model(X_trainTensor)
    loss = loss_fn(y_pred, y_trainTensor)
    model.zero_grad()
    loss.backward()
    with torch.no_grad():       
        for param in model.parameters():
            param -= learning_rate * param.grad

回答1:

Reference is from this github issue.

When the error is RuntimeError: Expected object of scalar type Float but got scalar type Double for argument #4 'mat1', you would need to use the .float() function since it says Expected object of scalar type Float.

Therefore, the solution is changing y_pred = model(X_trainTensor) to y_pred = model(X_trainTensor.float()).

Likewise, when you get another error for loss = loss_fn(y_pred, y_trainTensor), you need y_trainTensor.long() since the error message says Expected object of scalar type Long.

You could also do model.double(), as suggested by @Paddy .

回答2:

I had same issue

resolved

Before converting to Tensor, try this

X_train = X_train.astype(np.float32)

回答3:

The issue can be fixed by setting the datatype of input to Double i.e torch.float32

I hope the issue came because your datatype is torch.float16

回答4:

This issue can also occur if the wrong loss function is selected. For example, if you have regression problem, but you are trying to use cross entropy loss. Then it will be fixed by changing your loss function on MSE