A **ResNeXt** repeats a [building block](https://paperswithcode.com/method/resnext-block) that aggregates a set of transformations with the same topology. Compared to a [ResNet](https://paperswithcode.com/method/resnet), it exposes a new dimension, *cardinality* (the size of the set of transformations) $C$, as an essential factor in addition to the dimensions of depth and width.
This model was trained on billions of Instagram images using thousands of distinct hashtags as labels exhibit excellent transfer learning performance.
Please note the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license on theses weights, non-commercial use only.
## How do I use this model on an image?
To load a pretrained model:
```py
>>> import timm
>>> model = timm.create_model('ig_resnext101_32x16d', pretrained=True)
>>> model.eval()
```
To load and preprocess the image:
```py
>>> import urllib
>>> from PIL import Image
>>> from timm.data import resolve_data_config
>>> from timm.data.transforms_factory import create_transform
Replace the model name with the variant you want to use, e.g. `ig_resnext101_32x16d`. You can find the IDs in the model summaries at the top of this page.
To extract image features with this model, follow the [timm feature extraction examples](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/feature_extraction/), just change the name of the model you want to use.
## How do I finetune this model?
You can finetune any of the pre-trained models just by changing the classifier (the last layer).
```py
>>> model = timm.create_model('ig_resnext101_32x16d', pretrained=True, num_classes=NUM_FINETUNE_CLASSES)
```
To finetune on your own dataset, you have to write a training loop or adapt [timm's training
script](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/blob/master/train.py) to use your dataset.
title={Exploring the Limits of Weakly Supervised Pretraining},
author={Dhruv Mahajan and Ross Girshick and Vignesh Ramanathan and Kaiming He and Manohar Paluri and Yixuan Li and Ashwin Bharambe and Laurens van der Maaten},
year={2018},
eprint={1805.00932},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
```
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Title: Exploring the Limits of Weakly Supervised Pretraining
