Pytorch: multi-target error with CrossEntropyLoss
So I was training a Conv. Neural Network. Following are the essential details:


original label dim  = torch.Size([64, 1])
output from the net dim = torch.Size([64, 2])
loss type = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
error = RuntimeError: multi-target not supported at /pytorch/aten/src/THCUNN/generic/ClassNLLCriterion.cu:15


WHERE AM I WRONG..?

training:

EPOCHS        = 5
LEARNING_RATE = 0.0001
BATCH_SIZE    = 64

net = Net().to(device)
optimizer = optim.Adam(net.parameters(), lr=LEARNING_RATE)

loss_log = []
loss_log = train(net, trainSet, loss_log, EPOCHS, LEARNING_RATE, BATCH_SIZE)


train function:

def train(net, train_set, loss_log=[], EPOCHS=5, LEARNING_RATE=0.001, BATCH_SIZE=32):
  print('Initiating Training..')  
  loss_func = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

  # Iteration Begins
  for epoch in tqdm(range(EPOCHS)):
    # Iterate over every sample in the batch
    for data in tqdm(trainSet, desc=f'Iteration &gt; {epoch+1}/{EPOCHS} : ', leave=False):
        x, y = data
        net.zero_grad()

        #Compute the output
        output, sm = net(x)

        # Compute Train Loss
        loss = loss_func(output, y.to(device))

        # Backpropagate
        loss.backward()

        # Update Parameters
        optimizer.step()

        # LEARNING_RATE -= LEARNING_RATE*0.0005

    loss_log.append(loss)
    lr_log.append(LEARNING_RATE)

  return loss_log, lr_log


FULL ERROR:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)

&lt;ipython-input-20-8deb9a27d3b4&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
     13 
     14 total_epochs += EPOCHS
---&gt; 15 loss_log = train(net, trainSet, loss_log, EPOCHS, LEARNING_RATE, BATCH_SIZE)
     16 
     17 plt.plot(loss_log)

4 frames

&lt;ipython-input-9-59e1d2cf0c84&gt; in train(net, train_set, loss_log, EPOCHS, LEARNING_RATE, BATCH_SIZE)
     21         # Compute Train Loss
     22         # print(output, y.to(device))
---&gt; 23         loss = loss_func(output, y.to(device))
     24 
     25         # Backpropagate

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py in __call__(self, *input, **kwargs)
    530             result = self._slow_forward(*input, **kwargs)
    531         else:
--&gt; 532             result = self.forward(*input, **kwargs)
    533         for hook in self._forward_hooks.values():
    534             hook_result = hook(self, input, result)

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torch/nn/modules/loss.py in forward(self, input, target)
    914     def forward(self, input, target):
    915         return F.cross_entropy(input, target, weight=self.weight,
--&gt; 916                                ignore_index=self.ignore_index, reduction=self.reduction)
    917 
    918 

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torch/nn/functional.py in cross_entropy(input, target, weight, size_average, ignore_index, reduce, reduction)
   2019     if size_average is not None or reduce is not None:
   2020         reduction = _Reduction.legacy_get_string(size_average, reduce)
-&gt; 2021     return nll_loss(log_softmax(input, 1), target, weight, None, ignore_index, None, reduction)
   2022 
   2023 

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/torch/nn/functional.py in nll_loss(input, target, weight, size_average, ignore_index, reduce, reduction)
   1836                          .format(input.size(0), target.size(0)))
   1837     if dim == 2:
-&gt; 1838         ret = torch._C._nn.nll_loss(input, target, weight, _Reduction.get_enum(reduction), ignore_index)
   1839     elif dim == 4:
   1840         ret = torch._C._nn.nll_loss2d(input, target, weight, _Reduction.get_enum(reduction), ignore_index)

RuntimeError: multi-target not supported at /pytorch/aten/src/THCUNN/generic/ClassNLLCriterion.cu:15


The problem is that your target tensor is 2-dimensional ([64,1] instead of [64]), which makes PyTorch think that you have more than 1 ground truth label per data. This is easily fixed via loss_func(output, y.flatten().to(device)). Hope this helps!
