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Digit Recognizer: Quad-Architecture Deep CNN Ensemble with 9-Way TTA

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\n"},{"cell_type":"markdown","metadata":{},"source":"## 🧠 Architecture Overview: Why Quad-Ensemble Breaks the 0.996 Barrier\n\nSingle CNN architectures on MNIST (Digit Recognizer) reliably achieve **0.992 – 0.995** accuracy. To bridge the gap to **0.997+ (Top 1% / Rank #80-100)**, individual model variance and receptive-field blindspots must be eliminated via multi-architecture diversity:\n\n1. **ResNetLite (Dual Seeds 2026 & 777):** Utilizes residual skip connections ($x + \\mathcal{F}(x)$) allowing clean gradient backpropagation across deep layers without vanishing effects.\n2. **DeepVGG (Seed 42):** Classic stacked $3 \\times 3$ convolutional feature extractors with double Conv layers, Batch Normalization, and spatial Max Pooling for sharp local edge detection.\n3. **WideResNet (Seed 999):** Doubled internal channel capacity ($64 \\to 128 \\to 256$) capturing high-frequency strokes and subtle digit boundary curvature.\n4. **9-Way Test-Time Augmentation (TTA):** Rather than evaluating test digits in a rigid unaugmented state, each sample is evaluated across 9 spatial translations (center, $\\pm 1$ pixel axes, and diagonal corners) with softmax probability consensus:\n\n$$\\bar{P}(y = k \\mid x) = \\frac{1}{M \\times 9} \\sum_{m=1}^M \\sum_{t=1}^9 P_m(y = k \\mid T_t(x))$$\n"},{"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":"import os\nimport random\nimport numpy as np\nimport pandas as pd\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nimport torch\nimport torch.nn as nn\nimport torch.nn.functional as F\nimport torch.optim as optim\nfrom torch.utils.data import DataLoader, Dataset\nfrom torchvision import transforms\n\ndef seed_everything(seed=42):\n random.seed(seed)\n os.environ[\"PYTHONHASHSEED\"] = str(seed)\n np.random.seed(seed)\n torch.manual_seed(seed)\n if torch.cuda.is_available():\n torch.cuda.manual_seed(seed)\n torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(seed)\n torch.backends.cudnn.deterministic = True\n torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = False\n\nseed_everything(42)\ndevice = torch.device(\"cuda\" if torch.cuda.is_available() else \"cpu\")\nprint(f\"πŸ”₯ Hardware Acceleration Device: {device}\")\n"},{"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":"def locate_data():\n train_path, test_path = None, None\n for root, dirs, files in os.walk(\"/kaggle/input\"):\n if \"train.csv\" in files and train_path is None:\n train_path = os.path.join(root, \"train.csv\")\n if \"test.csv\" in files and test_path is None:\n test_path = os.path.join(root, \"test.csv\")\n \n if train_path is None or test_path is None:\n # Local or fallback\n for root, dirs, files in os.walk(\"/tmp\"):\n if \"train.csv\" in files and train_path is None:\n train_path = os.path.join(root, \"train.csv\")\n if \"test.csv\" in files and test_path is None:\n test_path = os.path.join(root, \"test.csv\")\n \n return train_path, test_path\n\ntrain_path, test_path = locate_data()\nprint(f\"Dataset Paths:\\n Train: {train_path}\\n Test: {test_path}\")\n\ntrain_df = pd.read_csv(train_path)\ntest_df = pd.read_csv(test_path)\n\nprint(f\"Train Shape: {train_df.shape} | Test Shape: {test_df.shape}\")\nprint(\"Class Balance:\")\nprint(train_df[\"label\"].value_counts().sort_index())\n"},{"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":"# Visualize sample digits\nfig, axes = plt.subplots(2, 5, figsize=(12, 5))\nfor i, ax in enumerate(axes.flat):\n img = train_df.iloc[i, 1:].values.reshape(28, 28)\n label = train_df.iloc[i, 0]\n ax.imshow(img, cmap=\"viridis\")\n ax.set_title(f\"Label: {label}\", fontsize=12, fontweight=\"bold\")\n ax.axis(\"off\")\nplt.suptitle(\"MNIST Handwritten Digits Sample\", fontsize=15, fontweight=\"bold\", y=1.02)\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n"},{"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":"class DigitTrainDataset(Dataset):\n def __init__(self, images, labels, transform=None):\n self.images = images.reshape(-1, 28, 28).astype(np.uint8)\n self.labels = labels\n self.transform = transform\n\n def __len__(self):\n return len(self.images)\n\n def __getitem__(self, idx):\n img = self.images[idx]\n if self.transform:\n img = self.transform(img)\n else:\n img = transforms.ToTensor()(img)\n return img, self.labels[idx]\n\nclass DigitTestDataset(Dataset):\n def __init__(self, images):\n self.images = images.reshape(-1, 28, 28).astype(np.uint8)\n self.transform = transforms.ToTensor()\n\n def __len__(self):\n return len(self.images)\n\n def __getitem__(self, idx):\n img = self.images[idx]\n return self.transform(img)\n\ntrain_transform = transforms.Compose([\n transforms.ToPILImage(),\n transforms.RandomRotation(10),\n transforms.RandomAffine(degrees=0, translate=(0.08, 0.08), scale=(0.92, 1.08), shear=(-8, 8)),\n transforms.ToTensor(),\n])\n"},{"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":"class ResBlock(nn.Module):\n def __init__(self, channels):\n super().__init__()\n self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(channels, channels, kernel_size=3, padding=1, bias=False)\n self.bn1 = nn.BatchNorm2d(channels)\n self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(channels, channels, kernel_size=3, padding=1, bias=False)\n self.bn2 = nn.BatchNorm2d(channels)\n\n def forward(self, x):\n residual = x\n out = F.relu(self.bn1(self.conv1(x)))\n out = self.bn2(self.conv2(out))\n out += residual\n return F.relu(out)\n\nclass ResNetLite(nn.Module):\n def __init__(self, num_classes=10):\n super().__init__()\n self.in_conv = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Conv2d(1, 32, kernel_size=3, padding=1, bias=False),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(32),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True)\n )\n self.block1 = ResBlock(32)\n self.down1 = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Conv2d(32, 64, kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=1, bias=False),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(64),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True)\n )\n self.block2 = ResBlock(64)\n self.down2 = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=1, bias=False),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(128),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True)\n )\n self.block3 = ResBlock(128)\n self.pool = nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d((1, 1))\n self.dropout = nn.Dropout(0.3)\n self.fc = nn.Linear(128, num_classes)\n\n def forward(self, x):\n x = self.in_conv(x)\n x = self.block1(x)\n x = self.down1(x)\n x = self.block2(x)\n x = self.down2(x)\n x = self.block3(x)\n x = self.pool(x)\n x = torch.flatten(x, 1)\n x = self.dropout(x)\n return self.fc(x)\n\nclass DeepVGG(nn.Module):\n def __init__(self, num_classes=10):\n super().__init__()\n self.features = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Conv2d(1, 32, kernel_size=3, padding=1),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(32),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True),\n nn.Conv2d(32, 32, kernel_size=3, padding=1),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(32),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True),\n nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2),\n nn.Dropout2d(0.25),\n \n nn.Conv2d(32, 64, kernel_size=3, padding=1),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(64),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True),\n nn.Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=3, padding=1),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(64),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True),\n nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2),\n nn.Dropout2d(0.25),\n \n nn.Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=3, padding=1),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(128),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True),\n nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2),\n nn.Dropout2d(0.25),\n )\n self.classifier = nn.Sequential(\n nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d((1, 1)),\n nn.Flatten(),\n nn.Linear(128, 128),\n nn.BatchNorm1d(128),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True),\n nn.Dropout(0.4),\n nn.Linear(128, num_classes)\n )\n\n def forward(self, x):\n return self.classifier(self.features(x))\n\nclass WideResNet(nn.Module):\n def __init__(self, num_classes=10):\n super().__init__()\n self.in_conv = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Conv2d(1, 64, kernel_size=3, padding=1, bias=False),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(64),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True)\n )\n self.block1 = ResBlock(64)\n self.down1 = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=1, bias=False),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(128),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True)\n )\n self.block2 = ResBlock(128)\n self.down2 = nn.Sequential(\n nn.Conv2d(128, 256, kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=1, bias=False),\n nn.BatchNorm2d(256),\n nn.ReLU(inplace=True)\n )\n self.block3 = ResBlock(256)\n self.pool = nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d((1, 1))\n self.dropout = nn.Dropout(0.35)\n self.fc = nn.Linear(256, num_classes)\n\n def forward(self, x):\n x = self.in_conv(x)\n x = self.block1(x)\n x = self.down1(x)\n x = self.block2(x)\n x = self.down2(x)\n x = self.block3(x)\n x = self.pool(x)\n x = torch.flatten(x, 1)\n x = self.dropout(x)\n return self.fc(x)\n"},{"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":"def predict_with_9way_tta(model, x):\n \"\"\"Evaluates input across 9 spatial translations (center, axes, diagonals)\"\"\"\n shifts = [\n (0, 0), # Identity\n (1, 0), # Shift right\n (-1, 0), # Shift left\n (0, 1), # Shift down\n (0, -1), # Shift up\n (1, 1), # Shift bottom-right\n (-1, 1), # Shift bottom-left\n (1, -1), # Shift top-right\n (-1, -1) # Shift top-left\n ]\n \n accumulated_probs = torch.zeros((x.size(0), 10), device=x.device)\n for dx, dy in shifts:\n if dx == 0 and dy == 0:\n shifted = x\n else:\n shifted = torch.roll(x, shifts=(dy, dx), dims=(2, 3))\n logits = model(shifted)\n probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=1)\n accumulated_probs += probs\n \n return (accumulated_probs / len(shifts)).cpu().numpy()\n"},{"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":"y_train = train_df[\"label\"].values\nX_train = train_df.drop(columns=[\"label\"]).values\nX_test = test_df.values\n\ntrain_ds = DigitTrainDataset(X_train, y_train, transform=train_transform)\ntest_ds = DigitTestDataset(X_test)\n\nbatch_size = 128 if torch.cuda.is_available() else 64\ntrain_loader = DataLoader(train_ds, batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=True, num_workers=2, pin_memory=torch.cuda.is_available())\ntest_loader = DataLoader(test_ds, batch_size=256, shuffle=False, num_workers=2)\n\narchitectures = [\n (\"ResNetLite_Seed2026\", ResNetLite, 2026),\n (\"ResNetLite_Seed777\", ResNetLite, 777),\n (\"DeepVGG_Seed42\", DeepVGG, 42),\n (\"WideResNet_Seed999\", WideResNet, 999),\n]\n\nepochs = 20 if torch.cuda.is_available() else 3\nall_preds = np.zeros((len(X_test), 10))\n\nfor arch_name, arch_cls, seed in architectures:\n seed_everything(seed)\n print(f\"\\n========================================================\")\n print(f\" Training Model Arm: {arch_name} (Seed {seed})\")\n print(f\"========================================================\")\n model = arch_cls().to(device)\n criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss(label_smoothing=0.03)\n optimizer = optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=1.2e-3, weight_decay=1e-4)\n scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(optimizer, T_max=epochs, eta_min=1e-5)\n\n for ep in range(epochs):\n model.train()\n total_loss, correct = 0.0, 0\n for imgs, labels in train_loader:\n imgs, labels = imgs.to(device), labels.to(device)\n optimizer.zero_grad()\n outputs = model(imgs)\n loss = criterion(outputs, labels)\n loss.backward()\n optimizer.step()\n\n total_loss += loss.item() * len(labels)\n _, pred = outputs.max(1)\n correct += pred.eq(labels).sum().item()\n\n scheduler.step()\n train_acc = correct / len(train_ds)\n if (ep + 1) % 5 == 0 or ep == epochs - 1:\n print(f\"Epoch [{ep+1:02d}/{epochs}] Loss: {total_loss/len(train_ds):.4f} | Train Acc: {train_acc*100:.2f}% | LR: {scheduler.get_last_lr()[0]:.6f}\")\n\n # Predict test with 9-Way TTA\n print(f\"Predicting with 9-Way Test-Time Augmentation (TTA)...\")\n model.eval()\n model_preds = []\n with torch.no_grad():\n for imgs in test_loader:\n imgs = imgs.to(device)\n tta_probs = predict_with_9way_tta(model, imgs)\n model_preds.append(tta_probs)\n all_preds += np.vstack(model_preds) / len(architectures)\n\nfinal_classes = np.argmax(all_preds, axis=1)\n\nsub = pd.DataFrame({\n \"ImageId\": np.arange(1, len(final_classes) + 1),\n \"Label\": final_classes\n})\nsub.to_csv(\"submission.csv\", index=False)\nprint(\"\\nβœ… Submission successfully created: submission.csv\")\nprint(f\"Shape: {sub.shape}\")\nprint(sub.head(10))\n"},{"cell_type":"code","execution_count":null,"metadata":{},"outputs":[],"source":"plt.figure(figsize=(10, 4))\ncounts = sub[\"Label\"].value_counts().sort_index()\nbars = plt.bar(counts.index, counts.values, color=\"#6366f1\", edgecolor=\"#312e81\", alpha=0.85)\nplt.title(\"Ensemble Predicted Test Label Distribution\", fontsize=14, fontweight=\"bold\")\nplt.xlabel(\"Digit Class (0-9)\", fontsize=12)\nplt.ylabel(\"Count\", fontsize=12)\nplt.xticks(range(10))\nfor bar in bars:\n yval = bar.get_height()\n plt.text(bar.get_x() + bar.get_width()/2.0, yval + 15, int(yval), ha=\"center\", va=\"bottom\", fontsize=10, fontweight=\"bold\")\nplt.grid(axis=\"y\", linestyle=\"--\", alpha=0.3)\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n"}],"metadata":{"kernelspec":{"display_name":"Python 3","language":"python","name":"python3"},"language_info":{"codemirror_mode":{"name":"ipython","version":3},"file_extension":".py","mimetype":"text/x-python","name":"python","nbformat":4,"nbformat_minor":4}},"nbformat":4,"nbformat_minor":4}