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* 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.
* 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):
* Add support to change image extensions scanned by `timm` datasets/readers. See (https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/pull/1274#issuecomment-1178303103)
* 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.
* 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).
*`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.
* 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.
* 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`
* [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.
*`resnet50` - 80.7 @ 224, 80.9 @ 288 (trained at 176, not replacing current a1 weights as default since these don't scale as well to higher res, [weights](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/releases/download/v0.1-rsb-weights/resnet50_a1h2_176-001a1197.pth))
* ResNet strikes back (https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00476) weights added, plus any extra training components used. Model weights and some more details here (https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/releases/tag/v0.1-rsb-weights)
* BCE loss and Repeated Augmentation support for RSB paper
* 4 series of ResNet based attention model experiments being added (implemented across byobnet.py/byoanet.py). These include all sorts of attention, from channel attn like SE, ECA to 2D QKV self-attention layers such as Halo, Bottlneck, Lambda. Details here (https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/releases/tag/v0.1-attn-weights)
* Working implementations of the following 2D self-attention modules (likely to be differences from paper or eventual official impl):
* A RegNetZ series of models with some attention experiments (being added to). These do not follow the paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06877) in any way other than block architecture, details of official models are not available. See more here (https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/releases/tag/v0.1-attn-weights)
* Add LAMB and LARS optimizers, incl trust ratio clipping options. Tweaked to work properly in PyTorch XLA (tested on TPUs w/ `timm bits` [branch](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/tree/bits_and_tpu/timm/bits))
* Add MADGRAD from FB research w/ a few tweaks (decoupled decay option, step handling that works with PyTorch XLA)
* Some cleanup on all optimizers and factory. No more `.data`, a bit more consistency, unit tests for all!
* SGDP and AdamP still won't work with PyTorch XLA but others should (have yet to test Adabelief, Adafactor, Adahessian myself).
* EfficientNet-V2 XL TF ported weights added, but they don't validate well in PyTorch (L is better). The pre-processing for the V2 TF training is a bit diff and the fine-tuned 21k -> 1k weights are very sensitive and less robust than the 1k weights.
* Added PyTorch trained EfficientNet-V2 'Tiny' w/ GlobalContext attn weights. Only .1-.2 top-1 better than the SE so more of a curiosity for those interested.
Py**T**orch **Im**age **M**odels (`timm`) is a collection of image models, layers, utilities, optimizers, schedulers, data-loaders / augmentations, and reference training / validation scripts that aim to pull together a wide variety of SOTA models with ability to reproduce ImageNet training results.
The work of many others is present here. I've tried to make sure all source material is acknowledged via links to github, arxiv papers, etc in the README, documentation, and code docstrings. Please let me know if I missed anything.
All model architecture families include variants with pretrained weights. There are specific model variants without any weights, it is NOT a bug. Help training new or better weights is always appreciated. Here are some example [training hparams](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/training_hparam_examples) to get you started.
Several (less common) features that I often utilize in my projects are included. Many of their additions are the reason why I maintain my own set of models, instead of using others' via PIP:
* doing a forward pass on just the features - `forward_features` (see [documentation](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/feature_extraction/))
* All models support multi-scale feature map extraction (feature pyramids) via create_model (see [documentation](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/feature_extraction/))
*`out_indices` creation arg specifies which feature maps to return, these indices are 0 based and generally correspond to the `C(i + 1)` feature level.
*`output_stride` creation arg controls output stride of the network by using dilated convolutions. Most networks are stride 32 by default. Not all networks support this.
* High performance [reference training, validation, and inference scripts](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/scripts/) that work in several process/GPU modes:
* NVIDIA DDP w/ a single GPU per process, multiple processes with APEX present (AMP mixed-precision optional)
* PyTorch DistributedDataParallel w/ multi-gpu, single process (AMP disabled as it crashes when enabled)
* PyTorch w/ single GPU single process (AMP optional)
* A dynamic global pool implementation that allows selecting from average pooling, max pooling, average + max, or concat([average, max]) at model creation. All global pooling is adaptive average by default and compatible with pretrained weights.
* A 'Test Time Pool' wrapper that can wrap any of the included models and usually provides improved performance doing inference with input images larger than the training size. Idea adapted from original DPN implementation when I ported (https://github.com/cypw/DPNs)
* AutoAugment (https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09501) and RandAugment (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13719) ImageNet configurations modeled after impl for EfficientNet training (https://github.com/tensorflow/tpu/blob/master/models/official/efficientnet/autoaugment.py)
* Space-to-Depth by [mrT23](https://github.com/mrT23/TResNet/blob/master/src/models/tresnet/layers/space_to_depth.py) (https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04590) -- original paper?
Model validation results can be found in the [documentation](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/results/) and in the [results tables](results/README.md)
Hugging Face [`timm` docs](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/timm) will be the documentation focus going forward and will eventually replace the `github.io` docs above.
[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) by [Chris Hughes](https://github.com/Chris-hughes10) is an extensive blog post covering many aspects of `timm` in detail.
[timmdocs](http://timm.fast.ai/) is quickly becoming a much more comprehensive set of documentation for `timm`. A big thanks to [Aman Arora](https://github.com/amaarora) for his efforts creating timmdocs.
The root folder of the repository contains reference train, validation, and inference scripts that work with the included models and other features of this repository. They are adaptable for other datasets and use cases with a little hacking. See [documentation](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/scripts/) for some basics and [training hparams](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/training_hparam_examples) for some train examples that produce SOTA ImageNet results.
One of the greatest assets of PyTorch is the community and their contributions. A few of my favourite resources that pair well with the models and components here are listed below.
The code here is licensed Apache 2.0. I've taken care to make sure any third party code included or adapted has compatible (permissive) licenses such as MIT, BSD, etc. I've made an effort to avoid any GPL / LGPL conflicts. That said, it is your responsibility to ensure you comply with licenses here and conditions of any dependent licenses. Where applicable, I've linked the sources/references for various components in docstrings. If you think I've missed anything please create an issue.
So far all of the pretrained weights available here are pretrained on ImageNet with a select few that have some additional pretraining (see extra note below). ImageNet was released for non-commercial research purposes only (https://image-net.org/download). It's not clear what the implications of that are for the use of pretrained weights from that dataset. Any models I have trained with ImageNet are done for research purposes and one should assume that the original dataset license applies to the weights. It's best to seek legal advice if you intend to use the pretrained weights in a commercial product.
Several weights included or references here were pretrained with proprietary datasets that I do not have access to. These include the Facebook WSL, SSL, SWSL ResNe(Xt) and the Google Noisy Student EfficientNet models. The Facebook models have an explicit non-commercial license (CC-BY-NC 4.0, https://github.com/facebookresearch/semi-supervised-ImageNet1K-models, https://github.com/facebookresearch/WSL-Images). The Google models do not appear to have any restriction beyond the Apache 2.0 license (and ImageNet concerns). In either case, you should contact Facebook or Google with any questions.
