最近在GitHub上看代码偶然发现了使输入经过网络传输后的输出，即“embedding”可视化的小细节，在此写下来加深记忆：

Git原链接：https://github.com/ywpkwon/siamese_tf_mnist

首先是创建网络（Siamese 网络）：

import tensorflow as tf

class siamese:

    # Create model
    def __init__(self):
        self.x1 = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, 784])
        self.x2 = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, 784])

        with tf.variable_scope("siamese") as scope:
            self.o1 = self.network(self.x1)
            scope.reuse_variables()
            self.o2 = self.network(self.x2)

        # Create loss
        self.y_ = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None])
        self.loss = self.loss_with_spring()

    def network(self, x):
        weights = []
        fc1 = self.fc_layer(x, 1024, "fc1")
        ac1 = tf.nn.relu(fc1)
        fc2 = self.fc_layer(ac1, 1024, "fc2")
        ac2 = tf.nn.relu(fc2)
        fc3 = self.fc_layer(ac2, 2, "fc3")
        return fc3

    def fc_layer(self, bottom, n_weight, name):
        assert len(bottom.get_shape()) == 2
        n_prev_weight = bottom.get_shape()[1]
        initer = tf.truncated_normal_initializer(stddev=0.01)
        W = tf.get_variable(name+'W', dtype=tf.float32, shape=[n_prev_weight, n_weight], initializer=initer)
        b = tf.get_variable(name+'b', dtype=tf.float32, initializer=tf.constant(0.01, shape=[n_weight], dtype=tf.float32))
        fc = tf.nn.bias_add(tf.matmul(bottom, W), b)
        return fc

    def loss_with_spring(self):
        margin = 5.0
        labels_t = self.y_
        labels_f = tf.subtract(1.0, self.y_, name="1-yi")          # labels_ = !labels;
        eucd2 = tf.pow(tf.subtract(self.o1, self.o2), 2)
        eucd2 = tf.reduce_sum(eucd2, 1)
        eucd = tf.sqrt(eucd2+1e-6, name="eucd")
        C = tf.constant(margin, name="C")
        # yi*||CNN(p1i)-CNN(p2i)||^2 + (1-yi)*max(0, C-||CNN(p1i)-CNN(p2i)||^2)
        pos = tf.multiply(labels_t, eucd2, name="yi_x_eucd2")
        # neg = tf.multiply(labels_f, tf.subtract(0.0,eucd2), name="yi_x_eucd2")
        # neg = tf.multiply(labels_f, tf.maximum(0.0, tf.subtract(C,eucd2)), name="Nyi_x_C-eucd_xx_2")
        neg = tf.multiply(labels_f, tf.pow(tf.maximum(tf.subtract(C, eucd), 0), 2), name="Nyi_x_C-eucd_xx_2")
        losses = tf.add(pos, neg, name="losses")
        loss = tf.reduce_mean(losses, name="loss")
        return loss

    def loss_with_step(self):
        margin = 5.0
        labels_t = self.y_
        labels_f = tf.subtract(1.0, self.y_, name="1-yi")          # labels_ = !labels;
        eucd2 = tf.pow(tf.subtract(self.o1, self.o2), 2)
        eucd2 = tf.reduce_sum(eucd2, 1)
        eucd = tf.sqrt(eucd2+1e-6, name="eucd")
        C = tf.constant(margin, name="C")
        pos = tf.multiply(labels_t, eucd, name="y_x_eucd")
        neg = tf.multiply(labels_f, tf.maximum(0.0, tf.subtract(C, eucd)), name="Ny_C-eucd")
        losses = tf.add(pos, neg, name="losses")
        loss = tf.reduce_mean(losses, name="loss")
        return loss

作者定义了Siamese类，要注意的是当要调用的时候通过一个类的实例来调用,在构造函数中有sefl.o1 = network(self.x1)，如后面run.py中的siamese.o1:

""" Siamese implementation using Tensorflow with MNIST example.
This siamese network embeds a 28x28 image (a point in 784D)
into a point in 2D.
By Youngwook Paul Kwon (young at berkeley.edu)
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
from builtins import input

#import system things
from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data # for data
import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np
import os

#import helpers
import inference
import visualize

# prepare data and tf.session
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets('MNIST_data', one_hot=False)
sess = tf.InteractiveSession()

# setup siamese network
siamese = inference.siamese();
train_step = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.01).minimize(siamese.loss)
saver = tf.train.Saver()
tf.initialize_all_variables().run()

# if you just want to load a previously trainmodel?
load = False
model_ckpt = './model.meta'
if os.path.isfile(model_ckpt):
    input_var = None
    while input_var not in ['yes', 'no']:
        input_var = input("We found model files. Do you want to load it and continue training [yes/no]?")
    if input_var == 'yes':
        load = True

# start training
if load: saver.restore(sess, './model')

for step in range(50000):
    batch_x1, batch_y1 = mnist.train.next_batch(128)
    batch_x2, batch_y2 = mnist.train.next_batch(128)
    batch_y = (batch_y1 == batch_y2).astype('float')

    _, loss_v = sess.run([train_step, siamese.loss], feed_dict={
                        siamese.x1: batch_x1,
                        siamese.x2: batch_x2,
                        siamese.y_: batch_y})

    if np.isnan(loss_v):
        print('Model diverged with loss = NaN')
        quit()

    if step % 10 == 0:
        print ('step %d: loss %.3f' % (step, loss_v))

    if step % 1000 == 0 and step > 0:
        saver.save(sess, './model')
        embed = siamese.o1.eval({siamese.x1: mnist.test.images})
        embed.tofile('embed.txt')

# visualize result
x_test = mnist.test.images.reshape([-1, 28, 28])
y_test = mnist.test.labels
visualize.visualize(embed, x_test, y_test)

在这里我们可以看到经过网络传输的是siamese.o1,这是一个张量，再调用tensorflow中张量自带的方法eval()（即代码中的

embed = siamese.o1.eval({siamese.x1: mnist.test.images})

），就是一个可以存储的np类型的数据啦，这样embed就可以直接调用np.ndarray.tofile()方法存入文件，注意numpy官方文档中说的是“text”和“binary”文件，就是文本文件.txt和二进制文件（就是np数组了）；存入文件后后面我们可视化的时候就好对这部分进行加载（numpy.ndarray.fromfile()方法）：且看visuallize.py 文件：

from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import offsetbox


def visualize(embed, x_test, y_test):

    # two ways of visualization: scale to fit [0,1] scale
    # feat = embed - np.min(embed, 0)
    # feat /= np.max(feat, 0)

    # two ways of visualization: leave with original scale
    feat = embed
    ax_min = np.min(embed,0)
    ax_max = np.max(embed,0)
    ax_dist_sq = np.sum((ax_max-ax_min)**2)

    plt.figure()
    ax = plt.subplot(111)
    colormap = plt.get_cmap('tab10')
    shown_images = np.array([[1., 1.]])
    for i in range(feat.shape[0]):
        dist = np.sum((feat[i] - shown_images)**2, 1)
        if np.min(dist) < 3e-4*ax_dist_sq:   # don't show points that are too close
            continue
        shown_images = np.r_[shown_images, [feat[i]]]
        patch_to_color = np.expand_dims(x_test[i], -1)
        patch_to_color = np.tile(patch_to_color, (1, 1, 3))
        patch_to_color = (1-patch_to_color) * (1,1,1) + patch_to_color * colormap(y_test[i]/10.)[:3]
        imagebox = offsetbox.AnnotationBbox(
            offsetbox.OffsetImage(patch_to_color, zoom=0.5, cmap=plt.cm.gray_r),
            xy=feat[i], frameon=False
        )
        ax.add_artist(imagebox)

    plt.axis([ax_min[0], ax_max[0], ax_min[1], ax_max[1]])
    # plt.xticks([]), plt.yticks([])
    plt.title('Embedding from the last layer of the network')
    plt.show()

if __name__ == "__main__":

    mnist = input_data.read_data_sets('MNIST_data', one_hot=False)
    x_test = mnist.test.images
    y_test = mnist.test.labels
    x_test = x_test.reshape([-1, 28, 28])

    embed = np.fromfile('embed.txt', dtype=np.float32)
    embed = embed.reshape([-1, 2])

    visualize(embed, x_test, y_test)

注意embed是根据test数据得到的，可视化的时候要做的就是把embed和原来的test数据对上，然后可视化的是原来的数据，但是对于有些距离很近的图片为了可视化效果就不显示了；numpy.r_() :Translates slice objects to concatenation along the first axis.

np.r_用于串接两个数组或矩阵。plt.axis()用来设置图的绘图区间，如ax_min[0]表示很轴的最小值，ax_max[0]表示横轴的最大值；同理，ax_min[1]表示纵轴的最小值，ax_max[1]表示纵轴的最大值。ax 是之前定义过的绘制子图的函数，调用一下add_artist(imagebox)就表示绘图了，，中间过程先不用管。