How to switch from GradientDescent Optimizer to Adam in Tensorflow - tensorflow

Question

My code is running perfectly with Gradient Descent, but I want to compare the effectiveness of my algorithm using Adam Optimizer, so I tried to modify the following code:
# Import MNIST data
#import input_data
#mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("/tmp/data/", one_hot=True)
from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("MNIST_data/", one_hot=True)
#fashion_mnist = input_data.read_data_sets('data/fashion')
import tensorflow as tf
# Set parameters
learning_rate = 0.01 #1e-4
training_iteration = 30
batch_size = 100
display_step = 2
# TF graph input
x = tf.placeholder("float", [None, 784]) # mnist data image of shape 28*28=784
y = tf.placeholder("float", [None, 10]) # 0-9 digits recognition => 10 classes
#regularizer = tf.reduce_sum(tf.square(y))
# Create a model
# Set model weights
W = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([784, 10]))
b = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([10]))
with tf.name_scope("Wx_b") as scope:
# Construct a linear model
model = tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(x, W) + b) # Softmax
# Add summary ops to collect data
w_h = tf.summary.histogram("weights", W)
b_h = tf.summary.histogram("biases", b)
# More name scopes will clean up graph representation
with tf.name_scope("cost_function") as scope:
# Minimize error using cross entropy
# Cross entropy
cost_function = -tf.reduce_sum(y*tf.log(model))
# Create a summary to monitor the cost function
tf.summary.scalar("cost_function", cost_function)
with tf.name_scope("train") as scope:
# Gradient descent
optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(learning_rate).minimize(cost_function)
# Initializing the variables
#init = tf.initialize_all_variables()
init = tf.global_variables_initializer()
# Merge all summaries into a single operator
merged_summary_op = tf.summary.merge_all()
# Launch the graph
with tf.Session() as sess:
sess.run(init)
summary_writer = tf.summary.FileWriter('/home/raed/Tensorflow/tensorflow_demo', graph_def =sess.graph_def)
#writer.add_graph(sess.graph_def)
# Training cycle
for iteration in range(training_iteration):
avg_cost = 0.
total_batch = int(mnist.train.num_examples/batch_size)
# Loop over all batches
for i in range(total_batch):
batch_xs, batch_ys = mnist.train.next_batch(batch_size)
# Fit training using batch data
sess.run(optimizer, feed_dict={x: batch_xs, y: batch_ys})
# Compute the average loss
avg_cost += sess.run(cost_function, feed_dict={x: batch_xs, y: batch_ys})/total_batch
# Write logs for each iteration
summary_str = sess.run(merged_summary_op, feed_dict={x: batch_xs, y: batch_ys})
summary_writer.add_summary(summary_str, iteration*total_batch + i)
# Display logs per iteration step
if iteration % display_step == 0:
print ("Iteration:" "%04d" % (iteration + 1), "cost=", "{:.9f}".format(avg_cost))
print ("Tuning completed!")
# Test the model
predictions = tf.equal(tf.argmax(model, 1), tf.argmax(y, 1))
# Calculate accuracy
accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(predictions, "float"))
print ("Accuracy:", accuracy.eval({x: mnist.test.images, y: mnist.test.labels}))
to use Adam Optimizer I tried to change the following line :
optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(learning_rate).minimize(cost_function)
and replace it with the AdamOptimizer :
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate).minimize(cost_function)
when I ran the code , I got few iteration and then it stopped with the following error.
InvalidArgumentError (see above for traceback): Nan in summary histogram for: weights
[[Node: weights = HistogramSummary[T=DT_FLOAT, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0"](weights/tag, Variable/read)]]
could you please help me understnad the problem , thanks in advance

Answer 1

the problem is weights are initialized to zero W = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([784, 10])) that`s why you re get Nan as weights.
you need to inialize them with some initializer i.e normal distribution as follow
W = tf.Variable(tf.random_normal([784, 10], stddev=0.35),
name="weights")