Keras multiple output expected shape and got shape - keras

Question

I am try to train a model which detect 128d vector to recognize face. Input of model is an image and output is 128d vector (regression) which get from "face_recognition" library.
When I put 128 output to train I got this error:
ValueError: Error when checking target: expected dense_24 to have shape (1,) but got array with shape (128,)
But when I try only one output, fit function works.
The strange part of that prediction shape is (1, 128) but I can't give 128 output to train.
Here is my model:
from keras.applications.vgg16 import VGG16
from keras.layers import Flatten, Dense
import keras
def build_facereg_disc():
# load model
model = VGG16(include_top=False, input_shape=(64, 64, 3))
# add new classifier layers
flat1 = Flatten()(model.outputs)
class1 = Dense(2048, activation='relu')(flat1)
output = Dense(128, activation='relu')(class1)
# define new model
model = models.Model(inputs=model.inputs, outputs=output)
# summarize
return model
facereg_disc = build_facereg_disc()
facereg_disc.compile(optimizer=keras.optimizers.Adam(), # Optimizer
# Loss function to minimize
loss=keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(),
# List of metrics to monitor
metrics=['binary_crossentropy'])
And summary:
Model: "model_27"
_________________________________________________________________
Layer (type) Output Shape Param #
=================================================================
input_20 (InputLayer) (None, 64, 64, 3) 0
_________________________________________________________________
block1_conv1 (Conv2D) (None, 64, 64, 64) 1792
_________________________________________________________________
block1_conv2 (Conv2D) (None, 64, 64, 64) 36928
_________________________________________________________________
block1_pool (MaxPooling2D) (None, 32, 32, 64) 0
_________________________________________________________________
block2_conv1 (Conv2D) (None, 32, 32, 128) 73856
_________________________________________________________________
block2_conv2 (Conv2D) (None, 32, 32, 128) 147584
_________________________________________________________________
block2_pool (MaxPooling2D) (None, 16, 16, 128) 0
_________________________________________________________________
block3_conv1 (Conv2D) (None, 16, 16, 256) 295168
_________________________________________________________________
block3_conv2 (Conv2D) (None, 16, 16, 256) 590080
_________________________________________________________________
block3_conv3 (Conv2D) (None, 16, 16, 256) 590080
_________________________________________________________________
block3_pool (MaxPooling2D) (None, 8, 8, 256) 0
_________________________________________________________________
block4_conv1 (Conv2D) (None, 8, 8, 512) 1180160
_________________________________________________________________
block4_conv2 (Conv2D) (None, 8, 8, 512) 2359808
_________________________________________________________________
block4_conv3 (Conv2D) (None, 8, 8, 512) 2359808
_________________________________________________________________
block4_pool (MaxPooling2D) (None, 4, 4, 512) 0
_________________________________________________________________
block5_conv1 (Conv2D) (None, 4, 4, 512) 2359808
_________________________________________________________________
block5_conv2 (Conv2D) (None, 4, 4, 512) 2359808
_________________________________________________________________
block5_conv3 (Conv2D) (None, 4, 4, 512) 2359808
_________________________________________________________________
block5_pool (MaxPooling2D) (None, 2, 2, 512) 0
_________________________________________________________________
flatten_10 (Flatten) (None, 2048) 0
_________________________________________________________________
dense_23 (Dense) (None, 2048) 4196352
_________________________________________________________________
dense_24 (Dense) (None, 128) 262272
=================================================================
Total params: 19,173,312
Trainable params: 19,173,312
Non-trainable params: 0
Here is preprocessing:
dir_data = "data_faces/img_align_celeba/"
Ntrain = 2000
Ntest = 100
nm_imgs = np.sort(os.listdir(dir_data))
## name of the jpg files for training set
nm_imgs_train = nm_imgs[:Ntrain]
## name of the jpg files for the testing data
nm_imgs_test = nm_imgs[Ntrain:Ntrain + Ntest]
img_shape = (64, 64, 3)
def get_npdata(nm_imgs_train):
X_train = []
for i, myid in enumerate(nm_imgs_train):
image = load_img(dir_data + "/" + myid,
target_size=img_shape[:2])
image = img_to_array(image)/255.0
X_train.append(image)
X_train = np.array(X_train)
return(X_train)
X_train = get_npdata(nm_imgs_train)
X_train.shape = (2000, 64, 64, 3)
y_train.shape = (2000, 128)
I use batch size like:
idx = np.random.randint(0, X_train.shape[0], half_batch)
imgs = X_train[idx]
labels = y_train[idx]
reg_d_loss_real = facereg_disc.train_on_batch(imgs, labels)

Answer 1

Your issue comes from your loss function. As explained in the doc, SparseCategoricalCrossentropy expects each sample in y_true to be an integer encoding the class, whereas CategoricalCrossentropy expects a one-hot encoded representation (which is your case).
So, switch to CategoricalCrossentropy and you should be fine.
However, to reproduce, I had to change:
flat1 = Flatten()(model.outputs)
To:
flat1 = Flatten()(model.outputs[0])