Neural Network training with PyBrain won't converge

Question

I have the following code, from the PyBrain tutorial:

from pybrain.datasets import SupervisedDataSet
from pybrain.supervised.trainers import BackpropTrainer
         


        

Answer 1

The following seems to consistently give the right results:

from pybrain.tools.shortcuts import buildNetwork
from pybrain.structure import TanhLayer
from pybrain.datasets import SupervisedDataSet
from pybrain.supervised.trainers import BackpropTrainer

#net = buildNetwork(2, 3, 1, bias=True, hiddenclass=TanhLayer)
net = buildNetwork(2, 3, 1, bias=True)

ds = SupervisedDataSet(2, 1)
ds.addSample((0, 0), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 1), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 0), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 1), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 0), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 1), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 0), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 1), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 0), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 1), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 0), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 1), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 0), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 1), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 0), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 1), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 0), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 1), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 0), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 1), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 0), (0,))
ds.addSample((0, 1), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 0), (1,))
ds.addSample((1, 1), (0,))

trainer = BackpropTrainer(net, ds, learningrate=0.001, momentum=0.99)

trainer.trainUntilConvergence(verbose=True)

print net.activate([0,0])
print net.activate([0,1])
print net.activate([1,0])
print net.activate([1,1])