Week 3 assignment: bug in the test

[paulinpaloalto]

Hi, Suleman.

Sorry that the grader can’t tell you which function is the one with the problem here. Apparently this is some kind of limitation of the underlying grading platform.

I helped another student recently who had this exact symptom: 88/100 and a message about a hidden test failing. In that case, it turned out to be that they had used A2.shape in the compute_cost function to substitute for the m value (the number of samples) in the cost code. That’s at least one thing to check. If that doesn’t help, let us know!

Regards,
Paul

[SULEMAN_JAVED]

Hi, @paulinpaloalto, thank you for reply.
I think there is some other problem because I used Y.shape[1] in compute_cost.

regards,
Suleman

[paulinpaloalto]

Meaning you used the value of m that they already defined for you in the template code? Or that you used Y.shape[1] directly in the cost code?

[SULEMAN_JAVED]

Yes, I used the value of m that they already defined in the template code.

[paulinpaloalto]

Ok, that probably means there is something else wrong with your code then. Please check your DMs for a message from me.

[Soumak_Banerjee]

Hi @Mubsi ,
Facing the similar issue.
My file id is nbpypdhd. Please suggest

4.2 - Initialize the model’s parameters

Exercise 3 - initialize_parameters

[paulinpaloalto]

You have the dimensions backward on both the W values, right? The number of rows is the number of output neurons and the number of columns is the number of input neurons (or features in layer 1).

If n_x = 2 and n_h = 4, then W1 should be 4 x 2, not 2 x 4, right?

[Soumak_Banerjee]

Hi @paulinpaloalto
Z is calculated by taking transpose of W1 (Z=W1T . X +b) . So, in that case W1 should be of shape (n_x, n_h). Isn’t it?

[Rashmi]

Hi Soumak,

Have a look at the shape of the weight matrix for W1 again and what parameters will you return?
Paul sir is right

[paulinpaloalto]

There is no transpose in the Week 3 forward propagation formula. Look again at the instructions or at the lectures. That is only in the Week 2 Logistic Regression case.

Here is a recent thread which goes through the derivation of the shape of the W matrices in Week 3.

[Soumak_Banerjee]

Got it… thanks @Rashmi

[Soumak_Banerjee]

Thanks @paulinpaloalto … understood the issue of my code.

[Soumak_Banerjee]

Hi @paulinpaloalto , @Rashmi

Now I have changed the code

 W1 = np.random.rand(n_h, n_x)*0.01
    b1 = (np.zeros((n_h,1)))
where n_h = n[1] and n_x = n[0]

So, the initialization has the following values for W1 when called for the test method

[[0.00435995 0.00025926 0.00549662]
 [0.00435322 0.00420368 0.00330335]
 [0.00204649 0.00619271 0.00299655]
 [0.00266827 0.00621134 0.00529142]
 [0.0013458  0.00513578 0.0018444 ]]

with
n_x → 3
n_h – > 5
n_y —> 2
But the expected value is

W1 = [[-0.00416758 -0.00056267]
 [-0.02136196  0.01640271]
 [-0.01793436 -0.00841747]
 [ 0.00502881 -0.01245288]]

which is 2X4 array
I am getting the below error now

~/work/release/W3A1/public_tests.py in initialize_parameters_test(target)
     57     assert parameters["b2"].shape == expected_output["b2"].shape, f"Wrong shape for b2."
     58 
---> 59     assert np.allclose(parameters["W1"], expected_output["W1"]), "Wrong values for W1"
     60     assert np.allclose(parameters["b1"], expected_output["b1"]), "Wrong values for b1"
     61     assert np.allclose(parameters["W2"], expected_output["W2"]), "Wrong values for W2"

AssertionError: Wrong values for W1

The expected value in the test cases are

expected_output = {'W1': np.array(
        [[-0.00416758, -0.00056267, -0.02136196],
         [ 0.01640271, -0.01793436, -0.00841747],
         [ 0.00502881, -0.01245288, -0.01057952],
         [-0.00909008,  0.00551454,  0.02292208],
         [ 0.00041539, -0.01117925,  0.00539058]]), 
                       'b1': np.array([[0.], [0.], [0.], [0.], [0.]]), 
                       'W2': np.array([[-5.96159700e-03, -1.91304965e-04,  1.17500122e-02,
        -7.47870949e-03,  9.02525097e-05],
       [-8.78107893e-03, -1.56434170e-03,  2.56570452e-03,
        -9.88779049e-03, -3.38821966e-03]]), 
                       'b2': np.array([[0.], [0.]])}

But the value created by the method, does not match. Value created by the method
are

W1 = [[0.00435995 0.00025926 0.00549662]
 [0.00435322 0.00420368 0.00330335]
 [0.00204649 0.00619271 0.00299655]
 [0.00266827 0.00621134 0.00529142]
 [0.0013458  0.00513578 0.0018444 ]]
b1 = [[0.]
 [0.]
 [0.]
 [0.]
 [0.]]
W2 = [[0.00785335 0.00853975 0.00494237 0.00846561 0.00079645]
 [0.00505246 0.00065287 0.00428122 0.00096531 0.0012716 ]]
b2 = [[0.]
 [0.]]

Can you please check if I am doing something wrong?

[Rashmi]

Hi Soumak,

Are you applying this formula correctly?

. Have a look and modify the changes.

Also, if you want to learn more on the why do we use this formula, here is a clear picture available on this thread.

[Soumak_Banerjee]

OMG…
Used below
W1 = np.random.rand(n_h, n_x)*0.01

Corrected the code and now working.

Thanks a lot @Rashmi and @paulinpaloalto

[paulinpaloalto]

If it’s any comfort, you are not the first person to make this mistake. That little “n” on the end there makes a big difference. The key clue is that all your values are positive, whereas the “normal” or Gaussian distribution gives both negative and positive values.

[Sahar_Sheikhi]

I double checked everything I could not find my code problem
in week 3 assignment all cells passed tests except nn_model cell
It has the same error mentioned in this topic(“wrong W1 shape”)
I do not know what else to check?(except hard code/randn/… which mentioned above)

when a cell fails and all its previous cells pass the test , I just have to modify the current cell? or in some cases some changes in previous cells might be needed too?

This is my lab ID : zcmteuhg

[Rashmi]

Hi Sahar,

Welcome to the community.

Please share the traceback and the error you are receiving.

[ai_curious]

@Sahar_Sheikhi

when a cell fails and all its previous cells pass the test , I just have to modify the current cell? or in some cases some changes in previous cells might be needed too?

You can think of a graded cell passing unit tests as ‘necessary but not sufficient’ for both passing subsequent local unit tests and the overall grader. Unit tests do not, and cannot, prove code is completely correct for all inputs. Rather, they prove that the code is not incorrect for one specific set of inputs passed to or embedded in that unit test. If you fail a unit test due to shape, you need to work backwards through the code to where that shape was created. You can rule out statements that impact values only, but not shape (eg the difference between rand() and randn())

BTW, if you haven’t ever read it, I highly recommend the book Aspects of Scientific Explanation to deeply understand the limits of provability. Something I think all programmers and scientists should have in their mental toolbox. Cheers.

Aspects of Scientific Explanation - Wikipedia.

[paulinpaloalto]

Interesting! Haven’t looked at the actual book yet, but here’s the Wikipedia page about the Raven Paradox. Thinking is hard work. I need another cup of coffee …