Keras enables you to write custom Layers, Models, Metrics, Losses, and Optimizers that work across TensorFlow, JAX, and PyTorch with the same codebase. Let’s take a look at custom layers first.

The keras.ops namespace contains:

  • An implementation of the NumPy API, e.g. keras.ops.stack or keras.ops.matmul.
  • A set of neural network specific ops that are absent from NumPy, such as keras.ops.conv or keras.ops.binary_crossentropy. Let’s make a custom Dense layer that works with all backends:
  class MyDense(keras.layers.Layer):
    def __init__(self, units, activation=None, name=None):
        super().__init__(name=name)
        self.units = units
        self.activation = keras.activations.get(activation)

    def build(self, input_shape):
        input_dim = input_shape[-1]
        self.w = self.add_weight(
            shape=(input_dim, self.units),
            initializer=keras.initializers.GlorotNormal(),
            name="kernel",
            trainable=True,
        )

        self.b = self.add_weight(
            shape=(self.units,),
            initializer=keras.initializers.Zeros(),
            name="bias",
            trainable=True,
        )

    def call(self, inputs):
        # Use Keras ops to create backend-agnostic layers/metrics/etc.
        x = keras.ops.matmul(inputs, self.w) + self.b
        return self.activation(x)

Next, let’s make a custom Dropout layer that relies on the keras.random namespace:

  class MyDropout(keras.layers.Layer):
    def __init__(self, rate, name=None):
        super().__init__(name=name)
        self.rate = rate
        # Use seed_generator for managing RNG state.
        # It is a state element and its seed variable is
        # tracked as part of `layer.variables`.
        self.seed_generator = keras.random.SeedGenerator(1337)

    def call(self, inputs):
        # Use `keras.random` for random ops.
        return keras.random.dropout(inputs, self.rate, seed=self.seed_generator)

Next, let’s write a custom subclassed model that uses our two custom layers:

  class MyModel(keras.Model):
    def __init__(self, num_classes):
        super().__init__()
        self.conv_base = keras.Sequential(
            [
                keras.layers.Conv2D(64, kernel_size=(3, 3), activation="relu"),
                keras.layers.Conv2D(64, kernel_size=(3, 3), activation="relu"),
                keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2, 2)),
                keras.layers.Conv2D(128, kernel_size=(3, 3), activation="relu"),
                keras.layers.Conv2D(128, kernel_size=(3, 3), activation="relu"),
                keras.layers.GlobalAveragePooling2D(),
            ]
        )
        self.dp = MyDropout(0.5)
        self.dense = MyDense(num_classes, activation="softmax")

    def call(self, x):
        x = self.conv_base(x)
        x = self.dp(x)
        return self.dense(x)

Let’s compile it and fit it:

  model = MyModel(num_classes=10)
model.compile(
    loss=keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(),
    optimizer=keras.optimizers.Adam(learning_rate=1e-3),
    metrics=[
        keras.metrics.SparseCategoricalAccuracy(name="acc"),
    ],
)

model.fit(
    x_train,
    y_train,
    batch_size=batch_size,
    epochs=1,  # For speed
    validation_split=0.15,
)
  
   399/399 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 70s 174ms/step - acc: 0.5104 - loss: 1.3473 - val_acc: 0.9256 - val_loss: 0.2484

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