vulpex 0.1.1

A lightweight deep learning framework built on NumPy. Low-level customizability and high-level usability in one.

Vulpex

A lightweight deep learning framework built on NumPy. Low-level customizability and high-level usability in one.

Quick Start

Install Vulpex and build your first model in minutes.

pip install vulpex

import numpy as np
import vulpex as vpx

# Create a simple classifier
model = vpx.Model(
  vpx.Sequential(
    vpx.Linear(784, 128),
    vpx.ReLU(),
    vpx.Linear(128, 10),
    vpx.Softmax()
  )
)

# Generate some data
X_train = np.random.randn(1000, 784)
y_train = np.eye(10)[np.random.randint(0, 10, 1000)]

# Train — one line, sklearn-style
history = model.fit(
  X_train, y_train,
  epochs=20,
  batch_size=32,
  optimizer=vpx.Adam(lr=0.001),
  loss=vpx.CrossEntropy()
)

# Predict
predictions = model.predict(X_train[:5])

Two Ways to Train

High-Level usage

For when you want simplicity:

model = vpx.Model(
  vpx.Sequential(
    vpx.Linear(4, 16), vpx.ReLU(),
    vpx.Linear(16, 3), vpx.Softmax()
  )
)

history = model.fit(
  X_train, y_train,
  epochs=50,
  batch_size=32,
  optimizer=vpx.Adam(lr=0.001),
  loss=vpx.CrossEntropy(),
  validation_data=(X_val, y_val),
  scheduler=vpx.ReduceOnPlateau(optimizer, patience=5),
  early_stopping=vpx.EarlyStopping(patience=10)
)

Low-Level usage

For when you want full control:

model = vpx.Model(
  vpx.Sequential(
    vpx.Linear(4, 16), vpx.ReLU(),
    vpx.Linear(16, 3), vpx.Softmax()
  )
)

optimizer = vpx.Adam(lr=0.001)
loss_fn = vpx.CrossEntropy()
loader = vpx.DataLoader(X_train, y_train, batch_size=32, shuffle=True)

for epoch in range(50):
  for X_batch, y_batch in loader:
    model.zero_grad()
    pred = model.forward(X_batch)
    loss = loss_fn.forward(y_batch, pred)
    grad = loss_fn.backward()
    model.backward(grad)
    optimizer.step(model.parameters())

CNN Example

model = vpx.Model(
  vpx.Sequential(
    vpx.Conv2D(1, 16, kernel_size=3, padding=1),
    vpx.BatchNorm2D(16),
    vpx.ReLU(),
    vpx.MaxPool2D(2),

    vpx.Conv2D(16, 32, kernel_size=3, padding=1),
    vpx.BatchNorm2D(32),
    vpx.ReLU(),
    vpx.MaxPool2D(2),

    vpx.Flatten(),
    vpx.Linear(32 * 7 * 7, 128),
    vpx.ReLU(),
    vpx.Dropout(0.5),
    vpx.Linear(128, 10),
    vpx.Softmax()
  )
)

model.summary((1, 28, 28))

Features

Layers

Linear, Conv1D, Conv2D, Conv3D, MaxPool1D, MaxPool2D, MaxPool3D, AvgPool1D, AvgPool2D, AvgPool3D, AdaptiveAvgPool1D, AdaptiveAvgPool2D, AdaptiveAvgPool3D, BatchNorm1D, BatchNorm2D, BatchNorm3D, LayerNorm, Dropout, Flatten, Embedding, ZeroPad1D, ZeroPad2D, ZeroPad3D, Sequential

Activations

ReLU, LeakyReLU, PReLU, ELU, SELU, GeLU, SiLU, Sigmoid, Tanh, Softmax, LogSoftmax

Loss Functions

MSE, MAE, BCE, BCEWithLogits, CrossEntropy, CrossEntropyWithLogits, NLLLoss, HuberLoss, HingeLoss, KLDivergence, CosineEmbeddingLoss, SmoothL1Loss

All loss functions support reduction='mean', 'sum', or 'none'. CrossEntropy and CrossEntropyWithLogits support class weights for imbalanced datasets.

Optimizers

Adam, AdamW, SGD, MomentumSGD, RMSProp

Training Utilities

DataLoader, train_test_val_split, StepLR, ReduceOnPlateau, EarlyStopping, clip_grad_norm, clip_grad_value

Weight Initialization

xavier_uniform, xavier_normal, he_uniform, he_normal, zeros, ones

Model Tools

# Architecture overview
model.summary((784,))

# Total trainable parameters
model.count_params()

# Save and load
model.save("my_model.vpx")
model.load("my_model.vpx")

# Train and evaluate
history = model.fit(X_train, y_train, epochs=20, batch_size=32, optimizer=optimizer, loss=loss_fn)
loss = model.evaluate(X_test, y_test, loss_fn)
preds = model.predict(X_test)

Data Utilities

# Split with optional validation set and stratified splitting
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = vpx.train_test_val_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, seed=42)

X_train, X_test, X_val, y_train, y_test, y_val = vpx.train_test_val_split(
  X, y, test_size=0.2, val_size=0.1, stratify=True, seed=42
)

# DataLoader for batching and shuffling
loader = vpx.DataLoader(X_train, y_train, batch_size=32, shuffle=True, drop_last=True, seed=42)

Training with Callbacks

optimizer = vpx.Adam(lr=0.01)

history = model.fit(
  X_train, y_train,
  epochs=100,
  batch_size=32,
  optimizer=optimizer,
  loss=vpx.CrossEntropy(),
  validation_data=(X_val, y_val),
  scheduler=vpx.StepLR(optimizer, step_size=20, gamma=0.1),
  early_stopping=vpx.EarlyStopping(patience=10, min_delta=0.001)
)

# Access training history
print(history["loss"])      # training loss per epoch
print(history["val_loss"])  # validation loss per epoch

Gradient Clipping

for X_batch, y_batch in loader:
  model.zero_grad()
  pred = model.forward(X_batch)
  loss = loss_fn.forward(y_batch, pred)
  grad = loss_fn.backward()
  model.backward(grad)

  vpx.clip_grad_norm(model.parameters(), max_norm=1.0)
  # or
  vpx.clip_grad_value(model.parameters(), clip_value=0.5)

  optimizer.step(model.parameters())

Custom Weight Initialization

layer = vpx.Linear(784, 256)
layer.weights.data = vpx.xavier_uniform((784, 256))

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• NumPy

License

BSD-3-Clause