Getting a ValueError in tensorflow saying that my shapes are incompatible

Question

Error:

return K.categorical_crossentropy(y_true, y_pred, from_logits=from_logits)
    C:\Users\selvaa\miniconda3\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\keras\backend.py:4619 categorical_crossentropy
        target.shape.assert_is_compatible_with(output.shape)
    C:\Users\selvaa\miniconda3\envs\tensorflow\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\framework\tensor_shape.py:1128 assert_is_compatible_with
        raise ValueError("Shapes %s and %s are incompatible" % (self, other))

    ValueError: Shapes (None, 1) and (None, 151) are incompatible

My model:

x = np.array(x)
y = np.array(y)

x = x/255.0

model = Sequential()
model.add(Conv2D(3, (3,3), input_shape=(128,128,3), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2,2)))

model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Dense(302, activation='relu'))
model.add(Dense(151, activation='softmax'))

model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='adam', metrics=['accuracy'])
model.fit(x, y, batch_size=32, epochs=5, verbose=1, validation_split=0.1)

I'm trying to train a model to identify different pokemon, I have two pictures of each 151 pokemon for my datasets (correctly labeled and all). Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Here is what happens when I print x.shape and y.shape:

(301, 128, 128, 3) (301,)

Answer 1

Use the loss tf.keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossEntropy , as shown in the code example below.

The loss function tf.keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossEntropy accepts reference labels in the shape (n_samples,) and predicted labels in the shape (n_samples, n_classes) , which would work for your data. You cannot use categorical_crossentropy because that expects your labels to be one-hot encoded (see bottom of answer).

x = np.array(x)
y = np.array(y)

x = x / 255.0

model = Sequential()
model.add(Conv2D(3, (3,3), input_shape=(128,128,3), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2,2)))
model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Dense(302, activation='relu'))
model.add(Dense(151, activation='softmax'))

model.compile(
    loss=tf.keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(), 
    optimizer='adam', 
    metrics=['accuracy'])

model.fit(x, y, batch_size=32, epochs=5, verbose=1, validation_split=0.1)

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Another solution is to one-hot encode your labels prior to training, for example using the function tf.one_hot . If you use this approach, then you can use categorical_crossentropy .