The infeasibility of the 'qiskit.aer' training cost function?

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I use the following dev:
dev = qml.device('qiskit.aer', wires=wires)
Training cost function:

def cost(params, features, labels):
    predictions = [variational_classifier(params, feat) for feat in features]
    return square_loss(labels, predictions)

The training function is as follows:

def TrainCost(params_init):
    opt = qml.NesterovMomentumOptimizer(0.09)
    batch_size = 30
    weights = params_init
    #bias = np.array(0.0, requires_grad=True)
    his_acc_val = []
    his_acc_train = []
    his_cost = []
    f1_train = []
    f1_test = []
    his_weights = []
    for it in range(30):

        # Update the weights by one optimizer step
        batch_index = np.random.randint(0, 2 * train_size, (batch_size,))
        feats_train_batch = feats_train[batch_index]
        Y_train_batch = Y_train[batch_index]
        #cost(params, bias, features, labels):
        weights, _, _ = opt.step(cost, weights, feats_train_batch, Y_train_batch)
        #print(bias)
        his_weights.append(weights)
        # Compute predictions on train and validation set
        predictions_train = [np.sign(variational_classifier(weights, feat)) for feat in feats_train]
        predictions_val = [np.sign(variational_classifier(weights, feat)) for feat in feats_val]
#         print(Y_train)
#         print()
#         print(predictions_train)
#         a = 1 / 0
        #print(Counter(predictions_train))
#         print(Counter(predictions_val))

        # Compute accuracy on train and validation set
        acc_train = accuracy(Y_train, predictions_train)

        acc_val = accuracy(Y_val, predictions_val)
        a = f1_score(Y_train, predictions_train)
        b = f1_score(Y_val, predictions_val)
        print(a, b)
        f1_train.append(a)
        f1_test.append(b)
        his_acc_val.append(acc_val)
        his_acc_train.append(acc_train)
        his_cost.append(cost(weights, features, Y))
        print("Iter: {:5d} | Cost: {:0.7f} | Acc train: {:0.7f} | Acc validation: {:0.7f} "
            "".format(it + 1, cost(weights, features, Y), acc_train, acc_val))

Training results:

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@isaacdevlugt @CatalinaAlbornoz @Maria_Schuld

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Hi @RX1,

Can you please share a minimal version of your code that reproduces this error? And can you please post the output of qml.about() and your full error traceback?

From what I can see in the error message it seems that you might be using some deprecated functionalities in your variational classifier.

Remember that a minimal version of your code should be complete enough so that we can run it and try to reproduce the error, but it should be as minimal as possible, so that we can actually find where the error lies.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions about this.

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This is the reference case for the source code. But I removed the trainable variable bias.

@CatalinaAlbornoz

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Hey @RX1! As @CatalinaAlbornoz mentioned, it will help us tremendously if you share a minimal version of your code that reproduces the error, the output of qml.about(), and the full error traceback. It’s difficult to see what’s going on without that information :grin: