python - Keras not training on entire dataset

Question

So I've been following Google's official tensorflow guide and trying to build a simple neural network using Keras. But when it comes to training the model, it does not use the entire dataset (with 60000 entries) and instead uses only 1875 entries for training. Any possible fix?

import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow import keras
import numpy as np

fashion_mnist = keras.datasets.fashion_mnist
(train_images, train_labels), (test_images, test_labels) = fashion_mnist.load_data()

train_images = train_images / 255.0
test_images = test_images / 255.0

class_names = ['T-shirt', 'Trouser', 'Pullover', 'Dress', 'Coat', 'Sandal', 'Shirt', 'Sneaker', 'Bag', 'Ankle Boot']

model = keras.Sequential([
                          keras.layers.Flatten(input_shape=(28, 28)),
                          keras.layers.Dense(128, activation='relu'), 
                          keras.layers.Dense(10)
])

model.compile(optimizer='adam',
              loss= tf.keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(from_logits=True),
              metrics=['accuracy'])

model.fit(train_images, train_labels, epochs=10)

Output:

Epoch 1/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3183 - accuracy: 0.8866
Epoch 2/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3169 - accuracy: 0.8873
Epoch 3/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3144 - accuracy: 0.8885
Epoch 4/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3130 - accuracy: 0.8885
Epoch 5/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3110 - accuracy: 0.8883
Epoch 6/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3090 - accuracy: 0.8888
Epoch 7/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3073 - accuracy: 0.8895
Epoch 8/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3057 - accuracy: 0.8900
Epoch 9/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3040 - accuracy: 0.8905
Epoch 10/10
1875/1875 [==============================] - 3s 2ms/step - loss: 0.3025 - accuracy: 0.8915

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Here's the original google colab notebook where I've been working on this: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NdtzXHEpiNnelcMaJeEm6zmp34JMcN38

Answer 1

The number 1875 shown during fitting the model is not the training samples; it is the number of batches.

model.fit includes an optional argument batch_size, which, according to the documentation:

If unspecified, batch_size will default to 32.

So, what happens here is - you fit with the default batch size of 32 (since you have not specified anything different), so the total number of batches for your data is

60000/32 = 1875