* ConvNeXt-V2 models and weights added to existing `convnext.py`
* Paper: [ConvNeXt V2: Co-designing and Scaling ConvNets with Masked Autoencoders](http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00808)
* Reference impl: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ConvNeXt-V2 (NOTE: weights currently CC-BY-NC)
### Dec 23, 2022 🎄☃
* Add FlexiViT models and weights from https://github.com/google-research/big_vision (check out paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08013)
* NOTE currently resizing is static on model creation, on-the-fly dynamic / train patch size sampling is a WIP
* Many more models updated to multi-weight and downloadable via HF hub now (convnext, efficientnet, mobilenet, vision_transformer*, beit)
* More model pretrained tag and adjustments, some model names changed (working on deprecation translations, consider main branch DEV branch right now, use 0.6.x for stable use)
* More ImageNet-12k (subset of 22k) pretrain models popping up:
* Add 'EVA l' to `vision_transformer.py`, MAE style ViT-L/14 MIM pretrain w/ EVA-CLIP targets, FT on ImageNet-1k (w/ ImageNet-22k intermediate for some)
* original source: https://github.com/baaivision/EVA
* Port of MaxViT Tensorflow Weights from official impl at https://github.com/google-research/maxvit
* There was larger than expected drops for the upscaled 384/512 in21k fine-tune weights, possible detail missing, but the 21k FT did seem sensitive to small preprocessing
* NOTE: official MaxVit weights (in1k) have been released at https://github.com/google-research/maxvit -- some extra work is needed to port and adapt since my impl was created independently of theirs and has a few small differences + the whole TF same padding fun.
### Sept 23, 2022
* LAION-2B CLIP image towers supported as pretrained backbones for fine-tune or features (no classifier)
* vit_base_patch32_224_clip_laion2b
* vit_large_patch14_224_clip_laion2b
* vit_huge_patch14_224_clip_laion2b
* vit_giant_patch14_224_clip_laion2b
### Sept 7, 2022
* Hugging Face [`timm` docs](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/timm) home now exists, look for more here in the future
* Add BEiT-v2 weights for base and large 224x224 models from https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/beit2
* Add more weights in `maxxvit` series incl a `pico` (7.5M params, 1.9 GMACs), two `tiny` variants:
* CoAtNet (https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04803) and MaxVit (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01697) `timm` original models
* both found in [`maxxvit.py`](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/blob/master/timm/models/maxxvit.py) model def, contains numerous experiments outside scope of original papers
* an unfinished Tensorflow version from MaxVit authors can be found https://github.com/google-research/maxvit
* Initial CoAtNet and MaxVit timm pretrained weights (working on more):
*`cs3`, `darknet`, and `vit_*relpos` weights above all trained on TPU thanks to TRC program! Rest trained on overheating GPUs.
* Hugging Face Hub support fixes verified, demo notebook TBA
* Pretrained weights / configs can be loaded externally (ie from local disk) w/ support for head adaptation.
* Add support to change image extensions scanned by `timm` datasets/parsers. See (https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/pull/1274#issuecomment-1178303103)
* Default ConvNeXt LayerNorm impl to use `F.layer_norm(x.permute(0, 2, 3, 1), ...).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)` via `LayerNorm2d` in all cases.
* a bit slower than previous custom impl on some hardware (ie Ampere w/ CL), but overall fewer regressions across wider HW / PyTorch version ranges.
* previous impl exists as `LayerNormExp2d` in `models/layers/norm.py`
* Numerous bug fixes
* Currently testing for imminent PyPi 0.6.x release
* LeViT pretraining of larger models still a WIP, they don't train well / easily without distillation. Time to add distill support (finally)?
* ImageNet-22k weight training + finetune ongoing, work on multi-weight support (slowly) chugging along (there are a LOT of weights, sigh) ...
### May 13, 2022
* Official Swin-V2 models and weights added from (https://github.com/microsoft/Swin-Transformer). Cleaned up to support torchscript.
* Some refactoring for existing `timm` Swin-V2-CR impl, will likely do a bit more to bring parts closer to official and decide whether to merge some aspects.
* More Vision Transformer relative position / residual post-norm experiments (all trained on TPU thanks to TRC program)
*`vit_relpos_small_patch16_224` - 81.5 @ 224, 82.5 @ 320 -- rel pos, layer scale, no class token, avg pool
*`vit_relpos_medium_patch16_rpn_224` - 82.3 @ 224, 83.1 @ 320 -- rel pos + res-post-norm, no class token, avg pool
*`vit_relpos_medium_patch16_224` - 82.5 @ 224, 83.3 @ 320 -- rel pos, layer scale, no class token, avg pool
*`vit_relpos_base_patch16_gapcls_224` - 82.8 @ 224, 83.9 @ 320 -- rel pos, layer scale, class token, avg pool (by mistake)
* Bring 512 dim, 8-head 'medium' ViT model variant back to life (after using in a pre DeiT 'small' model for first ViT impl back in 2020)
* Add ViT relative position support for switching btw existing impl and some additions in official Swin-V2 impl for future trials
* Sequencer2D impl (https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01972), added via PR from author (https://github.com/okojoalg)
### May 2, 2022
* Vision Transformer experiments adding Relative Position (Swin-V2 log-coord) (`vision_transformer_relpos.py`) and Residual Post-Norm branches (from Swin-V2) (`vision_transformer*.py`)
*`vit_relpos_base_patch32_plus_rpn_256` - 79.5 @ 256, 80.6 @ 320 -- rel pos + extended width + res-post-norm, no class token, avg pool
*`vit_relpos_base_patch16_224` - 82.5 @ 224, 83.6 @ 320 -- rel pos, layer scale, no class token, avg pool
*`vit_base_patch16_rpn_224` - 82.3 @ 224 -- rel pos + res-post-norm, no class token, avg pool
* Vision Transformer refactor to remove representation layer that was only used in initial vit and rarely used since with newer pretrain (ie `How to Train Your ViT`)
*`vit_*` models support removal of class token, use of global average pool, use of fc_norm (ala beit, mae).
### April 22, 2022
*`timm` models are now officially supported in [fast.ai](https://www.fast.ai/)! Just in time for the new Practical Deep Learning course. `timmdocs` documentation link updated to [timm.fast.ai](http://timm.fast.ai/).
* Two more model weights added in the TPU trained [series](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/releases/tag/v0.1-tpu-weights). Some In22k pretrain still in progress.
* Add `ParallelBlock` and `LayerScale` option to base vit models to support model configs in [Three things everyone should know about ViT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09795)
*`convnext_tiny_hnf` (head norm first) weights trained with (close to) A2 recipe, 82.2% top-1, could do better with more epochs.
### March 21, 2022
* Merge `norm_norm_norm`. **IMPORTANT** this update for a coming 0.6.x release will likely de-stabilize the master branch for a while. Branch [`0.5.x`](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/tree/0.5.x) or a previous 0.5.x release can be used if stability is required.
* Significant weights update (all TPU trained) as described in this [release](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/releases/tag/v0.1-tpu-weights)
* HuggingFace hub support fixed w/ initial groundwork for allowing alternative 'config sources' for pretrained model definitions and weights (generic local file / remote url support soon)
* SwinTransformer-V2 implementation added. Submitted by [Christoph Reich](https://github.com/ChristophReich1996). Training experiments and model changes by myself are ongoing so expect compat breaks.
* Swin-S3 (AutoFormerV2) models / weights added from https://github.com/microsoft/Cream/tree/main/AutoFormerV2
* MobileViT models w/ weights adapted from https://github.com/apple/ml-cvnets
* PoolFormer models w/ weights adapted from https://github.com/sail-sg/poolformer
* VOLO models w/ weights adapted from https://github.com/sail-sg/volo
* Significant work experimenting with non-BatchNorm norm layers such as EvoNorm, FilterResponseNorm, GroupNorm, etc
* Enhance support for alternate norm + act ('NormAct') layers added to a number of models, esp EfficientNet/MobileNetV3, RegNet, and aligned Xception
* Grouped conv support added to EfficientNet family
* Add 'group matching' API to all models to allow grouping model parameters for application of 'layer-wise' LR decay, lr scale added to LR scheduler
* Gradient checkpointing support added to many models
*`forward_head(x, pre_logits=False)` fn added to all models to allow separate calls of `forward_features` + `forward_head`
* All vision transformer and vision MLP models update to return non-pooled / non-token selected features from `foward_features`, for consistency with CNN models, token selection or pooling now applied in `forward_head`
### Feb 2, 2022
* [Chris Hughes](https://github.com/Chris-hughes10) posted an exhaustive run through of `timm` on his blog yesterday. Well worth a read. [Getting Started with PyTorch Image Models (timm): A Practitioner’s Guide](https://towardsdatascience.com/getting-started-with-pytorch-image-models-timm-a-practitioners-guide-4e77b4bf9055)
* I'm currently prepping to merge the `norm_norm_norm` branch back to master (ver 0.6.x) in next week or so.
* The changes are more extensive than usual and may destabilize and break some model API use (aiming for full backwards compat). So, beware `pip install git+https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models` installs!
*`0.5.x` releases and a `0.5.x` branch will remain stable with a cherry pick or two until dust clears. Recommend sticking to pypi install for a bit if you want stable.
### Jan 14, 2022
* Version 0.5.4 w/ release to be pushed to pypi. It's been a while since last pypi update and riskier changes will be merged to main branch soon....
* Add ConvNeXT models /w weights from official impl (https://github.com/facebookresearch/ConvNeXt), a few perf tweaks, compatible with timm features
* Tried training a few small (~1.8-3M param) / mobile optimized models, a few are good so far, more on the way...
*`mnasnet_small` - 65.6 top-1
*`mobilenetv2_050` - 65.9
*`lcnet_100/075/050` - 72.1 / 68.8 / 63.1
*`semnasnet_075` - 73
*`fbnetv3_b/d/g` - 79.1 / 79.7 / 82.0
* TinyNet models added by [rsomani95](https://github.com/rsomani95)
