## Usage of callbacks

A callback is a set of functions to be applied at given stages of the training procedure. You can use callbacks to get a view on internal states and statistics of the model during training. You can pass a list of callbacks (as the keyword argument `callbacks`) to the `.fit()` method of the `Sequential` or `Model` classes. The relevant methods of the callbacks will then be called at each stage of the training. 

---

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L275)</span>
### Callback

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.Callback()
```

Abstract base class used to build new callbacks.

__Properties__

- __params__: dict. Training parameters
    (eg. verbosity, batch size, number of epochs...).
- __model__: instance of `keras.models.Model`.
    Reference of the model being trained.

The `logs` dictionary that callback methods
take as argument will contain keys for quantities relevant to
the current batch or epoch.

Currently, the `.fit()` method of the `Sequential` model class
will include the following quantities in the `logs` that
it passes to its callbacks:

on_epoch_end: logs include `acc` and `loss`, and
optionally include `val_loss`
(if validation is enabled in `fit`), and `val_acc`
(if validation and accuracy monitoring are enabled).
on_batch_begin: logs include `size`,
the number of samples in the current batch.
on_batch_end: logs include `loss`, and optionally `acc`
(if accuracy monitoring is enabled).

----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L477)</span>
### BaseLogger

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.BaseLogger(stateful_metrics=None)
```

Callback that accumulates epoch averages of metrics.

This callback is automatically applied to every Keras model.

__Arguments__

- __stateful_metrics__: Iterable of string names of metrics that
    should *not* be averaged over an epoch.
    Metrics in this list will be logged as-is in `on_epoch_end`.
    All others will be averaged in `on_epoch_end`.
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L524)</span>
### TerminateOnNaN

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.TerminateOnNaN()
```

Callback that terminates training when a NaN loss is encountered.

----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L537)</span>
### ProgbarLogger

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.ProgbarLogger(count_mode='samples', stateful_metrics=None)
```

Callback that prints metrics to stdout.

__Arguments__

- __count_mode__: One of "steps" or "samples".
    Whether the progress bar should
    count samples seen or steps (batches) seen.
- __stateful_metrics__: Iterable of string names of metrics that
    should *not* be averaged over an epoch.
    Metrics in this list will be logged as-is.
    All others will be averaged over time (e.g. loss, etc).

__Raises__

- __ValueError__: In case of invalid `count_mode`.
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L614)</span>
### History

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.History()
```

Callback that records events into a `History` object.

This callback is automatically applied to
every Keras model. The `History` object
gets returned by the `fit` method of models.

----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L633)</span>
### ModelCheckpoint

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.ModelCheckpoint(filepath, monitor='val_loss', verbose=0, save_best_only=False, save_weights_only=False, mode='auto', period=1)
```

Save the model after every epoch.

`filepath` can contain named formatting options,
which will be filled with the values of `epoch` and
keys in `logs` (passed in `on_epoch_end`).

For example: if `filepath` is `weights.{epoch:02d}-{val_loss:.2f}.hdf5`,
then the model checkpoints will be saved with the epoch number and
the validation loss in the filename.

__Arguments__

- __filepath__: string, path to save the model file.
- __monitor__: quantity to monitor.
- __verbose__: verbosity mode, 0 or 1.
- __save_best_only__: if `save_best_only=True`,
    the latest best model according to
    the quantity monitored will not be overwritten.
- __save_weights_only__: if True, then only the model's weights will be
    saved (`model.save_weights(filepath)`), else the full model
    is saved (`model.save(filepath)`).
- __mode__: one of {auto, min, max}.
    If `save_best_only=True`, the decision
    to overwrite the current save file is made
    based on either the maximization or the
    minimization of the monitored quantity. For `val_acc`,
    this should be `max`, for `val_loss` this should
    be `min`, etc. In `auto` mode, the direction is
    automatically inferred from the name of the monitored quantity.
- __period__: Interval (number of epochs) between checkpoints.
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L733)</span>
### EarlyStopping

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.EarlyStopping(monitor='val_loss', min_delta=0, patience=0, verbose=0, mode='auto', baseline=None, restore_best_weights=False)
```

Stop training when a monitored quantity has stopped improving.

__Arguments__

- __monitor__: quantity to be monitored.
- __min_delta__: minimum change in the monitored quantity
    to qualify as an improvement, i.e. an absolute
    change of less than min_delta, will count as no
    improvement.
- __patience__: number of epochs that produced the monitored
    quantity with no improvement after which training will
    be stopped.
    Validation quantities may not be produced for every
    epoch, if the validation frequency
    (`model.fit(validation_freq=5)`) is greater than one.
- __verbose__: verbosity mode.
- __mode__: one of {auto, min, max}. In `min` mode,
    training will stop when the quantity
    monitored has stopped decreasing; in `max`
    mode it will stop when the quantity
    monitored has stopped increasing; in `auto`
    mode, the direction is automatically inferred
    from the name of the monitored quantity.
- __baseline__: Baseline value for the monitored quantity to reach.
    Training will stop if the model doesn't show improvement
    over the baseline.
- __restore_best_weights__: whether to restore model weights from
    the epoch with the best value of the monitored quantity.
    If False, the model weights obtained at the last step of
    training are used.
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L851)</span>
### RemoteMonitor

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.RemoteMonitor(root='http://localhost:9000', path='/publish/epoch/end/', field='data', headers=None, send_as_json=False)
```

Callback used to stream events to a server.

Requires the `requests` library.
Events are sent to `root + '/publish/epoch/end/'` by default. Calls are
HTTP POST, with a `data` argument which is a
JSON-encoded dictionary of event data.
If send_as_json is set to True, the content type of the request will be
application/json. Otherwise the serialized JSON will be send within a form

__Arguments__

- __root__: String; root url of the target server.
- __path__: String; path relative to `root` to which the events will be sent.
- __field__: String; JSON field under which the data will be stored.
    The field is used only if the payload is sent within a form
    (i.e. send_as_json is set to False).
- __headers__: Dictionary; optional custom HTTP headers.
- __send_as_json__: Boolean; whether the request should be send as
    application/json.
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L910)</span>
### LearningRateScheduler

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.LearningRateScheduler(schedule, verbose=0)
```

Learning rate scheduler.

__Arguments__

- __schedule__: a function that takes an epoch index as input
    (integer, indexed from 0) and current learning rate
    and returns a new learning rate as output (float).
- __verbose__: int. 0: quiet, 1: update messages.
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L946)</span>
### ReduceLROnPlateau

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.ReduceLROnPlateau(monitor='val_loss', factor=0.1, patience=10, verbose=0, mode='auto', min_delta=0.0001, cooldown=0, min_lr=0)
```

Reduce learning rate when a metric has stopped improving.

Models often benefit from reducing the learning rate by a factor
of 2-10 once learning stagnates. This callback monitors a
quantity and if no improvement is seen for a 'patience' number
of epochs, the learning rate is reduced.

__Example__


```python
reduce_lr = ReduceLROnPlateau(monitor='val_loss', factor=0.2,
                              patience=5, min_lr=0.001)
model.fit(X_train, Y_train, callbacks=[reduce_lr])
```

__Arguments__

- __monitor__: quantity to be monitored.
- __factor__: factor by which the learning rate will
    be reduced. new_lr = lr * factor
- __patience__: number of epochs that produced the monitored
    quantity with no improvement after which training will
    be stopped.
    Validation quantities may not be produced for every
    epoch, if the validation frequency
    (`model.fit(validation_freq=5)`) is greater than one.
- __verbose__: int. 0: quiet, 1: update messages.
- __mode__: one of {auto, min, max}. In `min` mode,
    lr will be reduced when the quantity
    monitored has stopped decreasing; in `max`
    mode it will be reduced when the quantity
    monitored has stopped increasing; in `auto`
    mode, the direction is automatically inferred
    from the name of the monitored quantity.
- __min_delta__: threshold for measuring the new optimum,
    to only focus on significant changes.
- __cooldown__: number of epochs to wait before resuming
    normal operation after lr has been reduced.
- __min_lr__: lower bound on the learning rate.
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L1071)</span>
### CSVLogger

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.CSVLogger(filename, separator=',', append=False)
```

Callback that streams epoch results to a csv file.

Supports all values that can be represented as a string,
including 1D iterables such as np.ndarray.

__Example__


```python
csv_logger = CSVLogger('training.log')
model.fit(X_train, Y_train, callbacks=[csv_logger])
```

__Arguments__

- __filename__: filename of the csv file, e.g. 'run/log.csv'.
- __separator__: string used to separate elements in the csv file.
- __append__: True: append if file exists (useful for continuing
    training). False: overwrite existing file,
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/callbacks.py#L1159)</span>
### LambdaCallback

```python
keras.callbacks.callbacks.LambdaCallback(on_epoch_begin=None, on_epoch_end=None, on_batch_begin=None, on_batch_end=None, on_train_begin=None, on_train_end=None)
```

Callback for creating simple, custom callbacks on-the-fly.

This callback is constructed with anonymous functions that will be called
at the appropriate time. Note that the callbacks expects positional
arguments, as:

- `on_epoch_begin` and `on_epoch_end` expect two positional arguments:
`epoch`, `logs`
- `on_batch_begin` and `on_batch_end` expect two positional arguments:
`batch`, `logs`
- `on_train_begin` and `on_train_end` expect one positional argument:
`logs`

__Arguments__

- __on_epoch_begin__: called at the beginning of every epoch.
- __on_epoch_end__: called at the end of every epoch.
- __on_batch_begin__: called at the beginning of every batch.
- __on_batch_end__: called at the end of every batch.
- __on_train_begin__: called at the beginning of model training.
- __on_train_end__: called at the end of model training.

__Example__


```python
# Print the batch number at the beginning of every batch.
batch_print_callback = LambdaCallback(
    on_batch_begin=lambda batch,logs: print(batch))

# Stream the epoch loss to a file in JSON format. The file content
# is not well-formed JSON but rather has a JSON object per line.
import json
json_log = open('loss_log.json', mode='wt', buffering=1)
json_logging_callback = LambdaCallback(
    on_epoch_end=lambda epoch, logs: json_log.write(
        json.dumps({'epoch': epoch, 'loss': logs['loss']}) + '\n'),
    on_train_end=lambda logs: json_log.close()
)

# Terminate some processes after having finished model training.
processes = ...
cleanup_callback = LambdaCallback(
    on_train_end=lambda logs: [
        p.terminate() for p in processes if p.is_alive()])

model.fit(...,
          callbacks=[batch_print_callback,
                     json_logging_callback,
                     cleanup_callback])
```
    
----

<span style="float:right;">[[source]](https://github.com/keras-team/keras/blob/master/keras/callbacks/tensorboard_v1.py#L20)</span>
### TensorBoard

```python
keras.callbacks.tensorboard_v1.TensorBoard(log_dir='./logs', histogram_freq=0, batch_size=32, write_graph=True, write_grads=False, write_images=False, embeddings_freq=0, embeddings_layer_names=None, embeddings_metadata=None, embeddings_data=None, update_freq='epoch')
```

TensorBoard basic visualizations.

[TensorBoard](https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/summaries_and_tensorboard)
is a visualization tool provided with TensorFlow.

This callback writes a log for TensorBoard, which allows
you to visualize dynamic graphs of your training and test
metrics, as well as activation histograms for the different
layers in your model.

If you have installed TensorFlow with pip, you should be able
to launch TensorBoard from the command line:
```sh
tensorboard --logdir=/full_path_to_your_logs
```

When using a backend other than TensorFlow, TensorBoard will still work
(if you have TensorFlow installed), but the only feature available will
be the display of the losses and metrics plots.

__Arguments__

- __log_dir__: the path of the directory where to save the log
    files to be parsed by TensorBoard.
- __histogram_freq__: frequency (in epochs) at which to compute activation
    and weight histograms for the layers of the model. If set to 0,
    histograms won't be computed. Validation data (or split) must be
    specified for histogram visualizations.
- __batch_size__: size of batch of inputs to feed to the network
    for histograms computation.
- __write_graph__: whether to visualize the graph in TensorBoard.
    The log file can become quite large when
    write_graph is set to True.
- __write_grads__: whether to visualize gradient histograms in TensorBoard.
    `histogram_freq` must be greater than 0.
- __write_images__: whether to write model weights to visualize as
    image in TensorBoard.
- __embeddings_freq__: frequency (in epochs) at which selected embedding
    layers will be saved. If set to 0, embeddings won't be computed.
    Data to be visualized in TensorBoard's Embedding tab must be passed
    as `embeddings_data`.
- __embeddings_layer_names__: a list of names of layers to keep eye on. If
    None or empty list all the embedding layer will be watched.
- __embeddings_metadata__: a dictionary which maps layer name to a file name
    in which metadata for this embedding layer is saved. See the
    [details](https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/embedding#metadata)
    about metadata files format. In case if the same metadata file is
    used for all embedding layers, string can be passed.
- __embeddings_data__: data to be embedded at layers specified in
    `embeddings_layer_names`. Numpy array (if the model has a single
    input) or list of Numpy arrays (if the model has multiple inputs).
    Learn [more about embeddings](
    https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/embedding).
- __update_freq__: `'batch'` or `'epoch'` or integer. When using `'batch'`, writes
    the losses and metrics to TensorBoard after each batch. The same
    applies for `'epoch'`. If using an integer, let's say `10000`,
    the callback will write the metrics and losses to TensorBoard every
    10000 samples. Note that writing too frequently to TensorBoard
    can slow down your training.
    

---


# Create a callback

You can create a custom callback by extending the base class `keras.callbacks.Callback`. A callback has access to its associated model through the class property `self.model`.

Here's a simple example saving a list of losses over each batch during training:
```python
class LossHistory(keras.callbacks.Callback):
    def on_train_begin(self, logs={}):
        self.losses = []

    def on_batch_end(self, batch, logs={}):
        self.losses.append(logs.get('loss'))
```

---

### Example: recording loss history

```python
class LossHistory(keras.callbacks.Callback):
    def on_train_begin(self, logs={}):
        self.losses = []

    def on_batch_end(self, batch, logs={}):
        self.losses.append(logs.get('loss'))

model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(10, input_dim=784, kernel_initializer='uniform'))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='rmsprop')

history = LossHistory()
model.fit(x_train, y_train, batch_size=128, epochs=20, verbose=0, callbacks=[history])

print(history.losses)
# outputs
'''
[0.66047596406559383, 0.3547245744908703, ..., 0.25953155204159617, 0.25901699725311789]
'''
```

---

### Example: model checkpoints

```python
from keras.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint

model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(10, input_dim=784, kernel_initializer='uniform'))
model.add(Activation('softmax'))
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='rmsprop')

'''
saves the model weights after each epoch if the validation loss decreased
'''
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='/tmp/weights.hdf5', verbose=1, save_best_only=True)
model.fit(x_train, y_train, batch_size=128, epochs=20, verbose=0, validation_data=(X_test, Y_test), callbacks=[checkpointer])
```