Tensorflow no change in parameter value for a simple softmax model
<p>I am trying to build a softmax model using tensorflow on my image data, inspired from the MNIST example. When I am trying to train the model, I see that there is no reduction in loss. I also see that there is no change in parameter(W,b) values after first iteration. Do I need to explicitly update my parameter values after each iteration? </p>

<p>Code:-</p>

<pre><code>######### Model Graph ###################
with tf.device('/cpu:0'):

x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32,shape = [None, IMAGE_HEIGHT, IMAGE_WIDTH, 3])
y_ = tf.placeholder(tf.float32,shape = [None,35])

########### Weight for each softmax sigmod function##############
initialW = tf.truncated_normal([IMAGE_HEIGHT*IMAGE_WIDTH*3, 35], stddev=0.1)
W = tf.Variable(initialW,trainable=True);
b = tf.Variable(tf.zeros([35]),trainable=True)


x_flat = tf.reshape(x, [-1,IMAGE_HEIGHT*IMAGE_WIDTH*3])
y=tf.nn.softmax(tf.matmul(x_flat,W)+b)

cross_entropy = tf.reduce_mean(-tf.reduce_sum(y_*tf.log(y+1e-10),reduction_indices=[1]))
cross_entropy = tf.Print(cross_entropy, [cross_entropy], "cost") #print to the console tensorflow

#train_step = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.5).minimize(cross_entropy)
train_step = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(0.1).minimize(cross_entropy)

#### Model evaluation ######### Evaluating model
is_predicted_correctly = tf.equal(tf.argmax(y,1), tf.argmax(y_,1))
accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(is_predicted_correctly,tf.float32))
ops = tf.initialize_all_variables();


### Running graph ###
### Initialzing variable ####
config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.log_device_placement=True
sess = tf.Session(config=config)
sess.run(ops)
###Training####
for it in range(nIterations):
  labels, images = d.getNextBatch(nBatchSize)
  while(images is not None):
    sess.run(train_step, feed_dict = {x: images, y_ : labels})
    labels, images = d.getNextBatch(nBatchSize)
</code></pre>

<p>Cost always remains similar:</p>

<pre><code>I tensorflow/core/kernels/logging_ops.cc:79] cost[22.211819]
I tensorflow/core/kernels/logging_ops.cc:79] cost[22.095526]
I tensorflow/core/kernels/logging_ops.cc:79] cost[22.676987]
I tensorflow/core/kernels/logging_ops.cc:79] cost[22.563032]
</code></pre>

<p>Update: Code for batch size</p>

<pre><code>def getNextBatch(self,cnt):
    if(self.dataSet is None):
        return None, None;

    if(self.curr&gt;=len(self.dataSet)):
        return None, None

    end = self.curr+cnt;

    if(end&gt;len(self.dataSet)):
        end = len(self.dataSet)

    batchData = self.dataSet[self.curr:end]
    labelRaw = [];
    images = [];
    for dataPoint in batchData:
        try:
            image = self.getImageFromPath(dataPoint['image']);
            if(not self.isSizeCorrect(image)):
                print("Wrong image shape:"+str(image.shape));
                raise ValueError("Wrong image shape");

            labelRaw.append(dataPoint['label']);
            images.append(image);
        except (OSError, ValueError):
            k=0;

    labels = self.onEnc.transform((self.lEnc.transform(labelRaw)).reshape(-1,1))
    self.curr = end

    return labels, np.array(images)

def getImageFromPath(self,imageFile):
    img = misc.imread(imageFile)
    resizedImg = misc.imresize(img,(IMAGE_HEIGHT,IMAGE_WIDTH))
    return resizedImg;
</code></pre>