mlp.py

"""
a simple multilayer perceptron
"""
import mxnet as mx

def get_symbol(num_classes=10, **kwargs):
    data = mx.symbol.Variable('data')
    data = mx.sym.Flatten(data=data)
    fc1  = mx.symbol.FullyConnected(data = data, name='fc1', num_hidden=128)
    act1 = mx.symbol.Activation(data = fc1, name='relu1', act_type="relu")
    fc2  = mx.symbol.FullyConnected(data = act1, name = 'fc2', num_hidden = 64)
    act2 = mx.symbol.Activation(data = fc2, name='relu2', act_type="relu")
    fc3  = mx.symbol.FullyConnected(data = act2, name='fc3', num_hidden=num_classes)
    mlp  = mx.symbol.SoftmaxOutput(data = fc3, name = 'softmax')
    return mlp