How to determine input shape in keras?

I am having difficulty finding where my error is while building deep learning models, but I typically have issues when setting the input layer input shape.

This is my model:

model = Sequential([
Dense(32, activation='relu', input_shape=(1461, 75)),
Dense(32, activation='relu'),
Dense(ytrain.size),])


It is returning the following error:

 ValueError: Error when checking input: expected dense_1_input to have 3

dimensions, but got array with shape (1461, 75)


The array is the training set from the kaggle housing price competition and my dataset has 75 columns and 1461 rows. My array is 2 dimensional, so why are 3 dimensions expected? I have tried adding a redundant 3rd dimension of 1 or flattening the array before the first dense layer but the error simply becomes:

ValueError: Input 0 is incompatible with layer flatten_1: expected

min_ndim=3, found ndim=2


How do you determine what the input size should be and why do the dimensions it expects seem so arbitrary?

For reference, I attached the rest of my code:

xtrain = pd.read_csv("pricetrain.csv")
xtrain.fillna(xtrain.mean(), inplace=True)
xtrain.drop(["Alley"], axis=1, inplace=True)
xtrain.drop(["PoolQC"], axis=1, inplace=True)
xtrain.drop(["Fence"], axis=1, inplace=True)
xtrain.drop(["MiscFeature"], axis=1, inplace=True)
xtrain.drop(["PoolArea"], axis=1, inplace=True)
columns = list(xtrain)
for i in columns:
if xtrain[i].dtypes == 'object':
xtrain[i] = pd.Categorical(pd.factorize(xtrain[i])[0])
from sklearn import preprocessing

le = preprocessing.LabelEncoder()
for i in columns:
if xtrain[i].dtypes == 'object':
xtrain[i] = le.fit_transform(xtrain[i])
ytrain = xtrain["SalePrice"]
xtrain.drop(["SalePrice"], axis=1, inplace=True)
ytrain = ytrain.values
xtrain = xtrain.values
ytrain.astype("float32")

size = xtrain.size
print(ytrain)
model = Sequential(
[Flatten(),
Dense(32, activation='relu', input_shape=(109575,)),
Dense(32, activation='relu'),
Dense(ytrain.size),
])
model.fit(xtrain, ytrain, epochs=10, verbose=1)


Thank you.

input_shape=(75, )

• I changed my input shape to your suggestion and the error simply becomes Error when checking target: expected dense_3 to have shape (1461,) but got array with shape (1,) I tried adding a flatten layer but then the error became Input 0 is incompatible with layer flatten_1: expected min_ndim=3, found ndim=2  How can I fix this issue? – Josh Zwiebel Jun 12 '19 at 4:00
• In which line are you getting this error? This is not the same as previous one as that one was on checking input and this is while checking target. – bkshi Jun 12 '19 at 4:09
• what is the difference between those two notes? and the error comes from the model.compile() but it corresponds to dense_3 does that make it the third dense layer? – Josh Zwiebel Jun 12 '19 at 4:29
• Sorry for the late reply, and yes the error is now in 3rd layer. I think the size of last layer is the problem. If you are trying to predict a single value of housing price then the last layer must have 1 unit rather than ytrain.size` – bkshi Jun 13 '19 at 4:14