chainer.report

chainer.report(values, observer=None)

Reports observed values with the current reporter object.

Any reporter object can be set current by the with statement. This function calls the Report.report() method of the current reporter. If no reporter object is current, this function does nothing.

Example

The most typical example is a use within links and chains. Suppose that a link is registered to the current reporter as an observer (for example, the target link of the optimizer is automatically registered to the reporter of the Trainer). We can report some values from the link as follows:

class MyRegressor(chainer.Chain):
    def __init__(self, predictor):
        super(MyRegressor, self).__init__(predictor=predictor)

    def __call__(self, x, y):
        # This chain just computes the mean absolute and squared
        # errors between the prediction and y.
        pred = self.predictor(x)
        abs_error = F.sum(F.abs(pred - y)) / len(x.data)
        loss = F.mean_squared_error(pred, y)

        # Report the mean absolute and squared errors.
        report({'abs_error': abs_error, 'squared_error': loss}, self)

        return loss

If the link is named 'main' in the hierarchy (which is the default name of the target link in the StandardUpdater), these reported values are named 'main/abs_error' and 'main/squared_error'. If these values are reported inside the Evaluator extension, 'validation/' is added at the head of the link name, thus the item names are changed to 'validation/main/abs_error' and 'validation/main/squared_error' ('validation' is the default name of the Evaluator extension).

Parameters:

• values (dict) – Dictionary of observed values.
• observer – Observer object. Its object ID is used to retrieve the observer name, which is used as the prefix of the registration name of the observed value.