Attempting to Combine Numeric and Text Features in Tensorflow: ValueError: Layer model expects 2 inp-CodePudding

I am attempting to do a sandbox project using the wine reviews dataset and want to combine both text data as well as some engineered numeric features into the neural network, but I am receiving a value error.

The three sets of features I have are the description (the actual reviews), scaled price, and scaled number of words (length of description). The y target variable I converted into a dichotomous variable representing good or bad reviews turning it into a classification problem.

Whether or not these are the best features to use is not the point, but I am hoping to try to combine NLP with meta or numeric data. When I run the code with just the description it works fine, but adding the additional variables is causing a value error.

y = df['y']
X = df.drop('y', axis=1)

# split up the data
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.33)

X_train.head();
description_train = X_train['description']
description_test = X_test['description']

#subsetting the numeric variables
numeric_train = X_train[['scaled_price','scaled_num_words']].to_numpy()
numeric_test = X_test[['scaled_price','scaled_num_words']].to_numpy()

MAX_VOCAB_SIZE = 60000
tokenizer = Tokenizer(num_words=MAX_VOCAB_SIZE)
tokenizer.fit_on_texts(description_train)
sequences_train = tokenizer.texts_to_sequences(description_train)
sequences_test = tokenizer.texts_to_sequences(description_test)

word2idx = tokenizer.word_index
V = len(word2idx)
print('Found %s unique tokens.' % V)
Found 31598 unique tokens.

nlp_train = pad_sequences(sequences_train)
print('Shape of data train tensor:', nlp_train.shape)
Shape of data train tensor: (91944, 136)

# get sequence length
T = nlp_train.shape[1]

nlp_test = pad_sequences(sequences_test, maxlen=T)
print('Shape of data test tensor:', nlp_test.shape)
Shape of data test tensor: (45286, 136)

data_train = np.concatenate((nlp_train,numeric_train), axis=1)
data_test = np.concatenate((nlp_test,numeric_test), axis=1)



# Choosing embedding dimensionality
D = 20

# Hidden state dimensionality
M = 40

nlp_input = Input(shape=(T,),name= 'nlp_input')
meta_input = Input(shape=(2,), name='meta_input')
emb = Embedding(V   1, D)(nlp_input)
emb = Bidirectional(LSTM(64, return_sequences=True))(emb)
emb = Dropout(0.40)(emb)
emb = Bidirectional(LSTM(128))(emb)
nlp_out = Dropout(0.40)(emb)
x = tf.concat([nlp_out, meta_input], 1)
x = Dense(64, activation='swish')(x)
x = Dropout(0.40)(x)
x = Dense(1, activation='sigmoid')(x)

model = Model(inputs=[nlp_input, meta_input], outputs=[x])

#next, create a custom optimizer
optimizer1 = RMSprop(learning_rate=0.0001)

# Compile and fit
model.compile(
  loss='binary_crossentropy',
  optimizer='adam',
  metrics=['accuracy']
)


print('Training model...')
r = model.fit(
  data_train,
  y_train,
  epochs=5, 
  validation_data=(data_test, y_test))

I apologize if that was over-kill but wanted to make sure I didn't leave out any relevant clues or information that would potentially be helpful. The error I get from running the code is

ValueError: Layer model expects 2 input(s), but it received 1 input tensors. Inputs received: [<tf.Tensor 'IteratorGetNext:0' shape=(None, 138) dtype=float32>]

How do I resolve that error?

CodePudding user response：

Thank you for posting all your code. These two lines are the problem:

data_train = np.concatenate((nlp_train,numeric_train), axis=1)
data_test = np.concatenate((nlp_test,numeric_test), axis=1)

A numpy array is interpreted as one input regardless of its shape. Either use tf.data.Dataset and feed your dataset directly to your model:

train_dataset = tf.data.Dataset.from_tensor_slices((nlp_train, numeric_train))
labels = tf.data.Dataset.from_tensor_slices(y_train)
dataset = tf.data.Dataset.zip((train_dataset, train_dataset))
r = model.fit(dataset, epochs=5)

Or just feed your data directly to model.fit() as a list of inputs:

r = model.fit(
  [nlp_train, numeric_train],
  y_train,
  epochs=5, 
  validation_data=([nlp_test, numeric_test], y_test))