ValueError: Input 0 of layer "sequential" is incompatible with the layer: expected shape=(None, 223461, 5), found shape=(None, 5)

Question

i use a model with a combinaison of GRu and Conv1D .And when i want to fit the model i get an error in ValueError: Input 0 of layer "sequential_8" is incompatible with the layer: expected shape=(None, 223461, 5), found shape=(None, 5). this is my code : the shape of X_train is (223461, 5) , whereas the y_train is (223461,)

  verbose, epochs, batch_size = 0, 100, 64
    n_timesteps, n_features, n_outputs = X_train.shape[0], X_train.shape[1], y_train.shape[0]
    model = Sequential()
    model.add(Conv1D(filters=64, kernel_size=3, activation='relu', input_shape=(n_timesteps,n_features)))
    model.add(MaxPooling1D(pool_size=2))
    model.add(GRU(64))
    model.add(Dropout(0.4))
    model.add(Flatten())
    model.add(Dense(128, activation='relu'))
    model.add(Dropout(0.4))
    model.add(Dense(n_outputs, activation='softmax'))
    opt = Adam(learning_rate=0.01)
    model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer=opt , metrics=['accuracy'])
    model.summary()

the output of summary is :

Model: "sequential_8"
_________________________________________________________________  Layer (type)                Output Shape              Param #   
=================================================================  conv1d_8 (Conv1D)           (None, 223459, 64)        1024      
                                                                   max_pooling1d_8 (MaxPooling  (None, 111729, 64)       0           1D) 

                                                                   gru_7 (GRU)                 (None, 64)                24960     
                                                                   dropout_14 (Dropout)        (None, 64)                0         
                                                                   flatten_6 (Flatten)         (None, 64)                0         
                                                                   dense_14 (Dense)            (None, 128)               8320      
                                                                   dropout_15 (Dropout)        (None, 128)               0         
                                                                   dense_15 (Dense)            (None, 223461)            28826469  
                                                                 
================================================================= Total params: 28,860,773 Trainable params: 28,860,773 Non-trainable params: 0
_________________________________________________________________

and here where I face the error:

model.fit(X_train, y_train, epochs=epochs, batch_size=batch_size, verbose=verbose)
_, accuracy = model.evaluate(X_test, y_test, batch_size=batch_size, verbose=0)

Answer 1

According to your model, your training data x_train and y_train is just a piece of data.

So your training data have to expand the dimension, like this:

X_train = X_train[None,:]
y_train = y_train[None,:]

Or use tensorflow function to do this :

X_train = tf.expand_dims(X_train, axis=0)
y_train = tf.expand_dims(y_train, axis=0)

The output shape of the model will be (1,223461)

If the output is not what you expected, it means your model design is wrong.