DS & ML with Mac M1

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This is my personal list of to-do things for a new Macbook.

👉 Note: Mac fresh start.
👉 Note: Python installation.
👉 Note: Docker 101.

👉 My dockerfiles on Github.

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Updated on 22/Mar/22: There is no way to install Tensorflow with Docker on Mac M1.

Installation

# Install XCode (from Appstore)

# Install XCode Command Line Tolls
xcode-select --install

# Download & install miniforge3
# https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge
# (Choose "MacOSX-arm64" version)

chmod +x ~/Downloads/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh
sh ~/Downloads/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh
source ~/miniforge3/bin/activate

# Restart terminal and check
which python
# /Users/thi/miniforge3/bin/python
which pip
# /Users/thi/miniforge3/bin/pip
# Init conda with zsh?
conda init zsh
source ~/.zshrc

With PyTorch

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Updated on 22/Mar/22: M1 GPU support is under working.

Make sure the package on anaconda supports osx-arm64 and try:

conda install -c pytorch pytorch
# If not working, try
pip3 install torch torchvision

Note: not guarantee it will work!

# Verification
import torch
x = torch.rand(5, 3)
print(x)

With Tensorflow + virtual environnement

👉 Getting Started with tensorflow-metal PluggableDevice | Apple Official doc (required macOS 12.0+)

# Create virtual env
conda create -n ds-tf2.5 python=3.9.5
conda activate ds-tf2.5

# Install Tensorflow dependencies
conda install -c apple tensorflow-deps

# Install base tensorflow
python -m pip install tensorflow-macos

# Install metal plugin
python -m pip install tensorflow-metal
# Install needed packages
conda install --file requirements.txt

# single package
conda install -y scikit-learn
# check after installing
pip show scikit-learn

👉 Install scikit-learn on M1 (official note).
👉 Note: Python installation.

Verifying Installation

With Tensorflow

python

# In python environement
import tensorflow as tf
print(tf.__version__)

Or checking the working of GPU, CPU,...

# Jupyter Notebook
jupyter lab

Then in the notebook,

import tensorflow as tf
import tensorflow_datasets as tfds
print("TensorFlow version:", tf.__version__)
print("Num GPUs Available: ", len(tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('GPU')))
print("Num CPUs Available: ", len(tf.config.experimental.list_physical_devices('CPU')))

# Returns
TensorFlow version: 2.5.0
Num GPUs Available: 1
Num CPUs Available: 1
Example code
# Make sure these packages are installed
pip install tensorflow-datasets pandas jupyterlab
(ds_train, ds_test), ds_info = tfds.load(
'mnist',
split=['train', 'test'],
shuffle_files=True,
as_supervised=True,
with_info=True,
)

def normalize_img(image, label):
"""Normalizes images: `uint8` -> `float32`."""
return tf.cast(image, tf.float32) / 255., label

batch_size = 128
ds_train = ds_train.map(
normalize_img, num_parallel_calls=tf.data.experimental.AUTOTUNE)
ds_train = ds_train.cache()
ds_train = ds_train.shuffle(ds_info.splits['train'].num_examples)
ds_train = ds_train.batch(batch_size)
ds_train = ds_train.prefetch(tf.data.experimental.AUTOTUNE)
ds_test = ds_test.map(
normalize_img, num_parallel_calls=tf.data.experimental.AUTOTUNE)

ds_test = ds_test.batch(batch_size)
ds_test = ds_test.cache()
ds_test = ds_test.prefetch(tf.data.experimental.AUTOTUNE)

model = tf.keras.models.Sequential([
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(32, kernel_size=(3, 3),
activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(64, kernel_size=(3, 3),
activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2, 2)),
tf.keras.layers.Flatten(),
tf.keras.layers.Dense(128, activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.Dense(10, activation='softmax')
])

model.compile(
loss='sparse_categorical_crossentropy',
optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(0.001),
metrics=['accuracy'],
)

model.fit(
ds_train,
epochs=12,
validation_data=ds_test,
)

Troubleshooting

✳️ RuntimeError: module compiled against API version 0x10 but this version of numpy is 0xe

pip install numpy --upgrade

References

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