Loss: NaN in Keras while performing regression

Question

I am trying to predict a continuous value (using a Neural Network for the first time). I have normalized the input data. I can't figure out why I am getting a loss: nan output starting with the first epoch.

I read and tried many suggestions from previous answers to the same question but that none of them helped me. My training data shape is: (201917, 64). Here's my code:

model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(100, input_dim=X.shape[1], activation='relu'))
model.add(Dense(100, activation='relu'))
model.add(Dense(100, activation='relu'))

# Output layer
model.add(Dense(1, activation='linear'))

# Construct the neural network inside of TensorFlow
model.compile(loss='mean_squared_error', optimizer='Adam')

# train the model
model.fit(X_train, y_train, epochs=10, batch_size=32,
shuffle=True, verbose=2)

Answer 1

These are the steps that you can take to find the cause of your problem:

1. Make sure that your dataset is what it should be:

   • Look for any nan/inf in your dataset and fix it.
   • Incorrect encoding (convert it to UTF-8).
   • Invalid values in your column or rows.

2. Normalize your model using Dropout, BatchNormalization, L1/L2 regularization, change your batch_size, or scale your data to other ranges (e.g. [-1, 1]).

3. Reduce the size of your network.

4. Change other hyper-parameters (e.g. optimizer or activation function).

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