Xception convolutional neural network - training error (crash after two weeks)

I was runnig Xception convolutional neural network for image classification of large dataset (around 1,500,000 images).

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, 128 Gb of RAM (Crucial Desktop DDR5-4800 UDIMM 1.1V CL40, CT2K32G48C40U5 x2; Crucial Japan, Micron, Tokyo, Japan), and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card (ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX® 4090 OC Edition 24GB GDDR6X

Matlab r2023b update 10

Windows 10

Standard setup, solver sgdm, learning rate 0.001, minibath size 128, validation freq 50.

I was following the training/validation using the training plot that updates itself. After 2 weeks I was reaching the plateu, after 3 epochs. And was planning to stop at 5 epochs. However, the following day in the morning I found the training had stopped prematurely.

First I blamed windows 10 (had it reboot?) or a small earthquake (electromagnetic pulse?). But the log file tells different.

Faulting application name: MATLABWindow.exe, version: 23.2.0.0, time stamp: 0xe60e8bb5

Faulting module name: libcef.dll, version: 104.4.34.0, time stamp: 0x62fa72be

Maybe the system was reaching its limit and a better hardware is necessary.

Any idea?

As I understand, Matlab is not keeping safety "images" of the training process in case the program is closed prior completion.

It is fine as I am running it again, but I "wasted" two weeks of training.

Thank you.

Log Name: Application

Source: Application Error

Date: 2025/07/24 21:44:07

Event ID: 1000

Task Category: Application Crashing Events

Level: Error

Keywords:

User: S-1-5-21-3219398866-3575950627-3689656050-1001

Computer: DESKTOP-HNQCUK8

Description:

Faulting application name: MATLABWindow.exe, version: 23.2.0.0, time stamp: 0xe60e8bb5

Faulting module name: libcef.dll, version: 104.4.34.0, time stamp: 0x62fa72be

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x000000000229c84c

Faulting process id: 0x0x2908

Faulting application start time: 0x0x1dbf2380b93f22e

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2023b\bin\win64\MATLABWindow.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2023b\bin\win64\libcef.dll

Report Id: 43229cdb-1fa4-409f-9582-d234a55cf224

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

Event Xml:

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>

<Provider Name="Application Error" Guid="{a0e9b465-b939-57d7-b27d-95d8e925ff57}" />

<EventID>1000</EventID>

<Version>0</Version>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>100</Task>

<Opcode>0</Opcode>

<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated SystemTime="2025-07-24T12:44:07.7995586Z" />

<EventRecordID>9796</EventRecordID>

<Correlation />

<Execution ProcessID="6980" ThreadID="6736" />

<Channel>Application</Channel>

<Computer>DESKTOP-HNQCUK8</Computer>

<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-3219398866-3575950627-3689656050-1001" />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data Name="AppName">MATLABWindow.exe</Data>

<Data Name="AppVersion">23.2.0.0</Data>

<Data Name="AppTimeStamp">e60e8bb5</Data>

<Data Name="ModuleName">libcef.dll</Data>

<Data Name="ModuleVersion">104.4.34.0</Data>

<Data Name="ModuleTimeStamp">62fa72be</Data>

<Data Name="ExceptionCode">c0000005</Data>

<Data Name="FaultingOffset">000000000229c84c</Data>

<Data Name="ProcessId">0x2908</Data>

<Data Name="ProcessCreationTime">0x1dbf2380b93f22e</Data>

<Data Name="AppPath">C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2023b\bin\win64\MATLABWindow.exe</Data>

<Data Name="ModulePath">C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2023b\bin\win64\libcef.dll</Data>

<Data Name="IntegratorReportId">43229cdb-1fa4-409f-9582-d234a55cf224</Data>

<Data Name="PackageFullName">

</Data>

<Data Name="PackageRelativeAppId">

</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>

Answer 1

[Jacob Mathew]

Hey @ジュアキム カレーラス,

You can check out the crash logs by following the steps in the below MATLAB Answers post:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/100816-how-do-i-locate-the-crash-dump-files-generated-by-matlab

Share this crash log file with MathWorks Customer Support:

https://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us.html