These hparams (or similar) work well for a wide range of ResNet architecture, generally a good idea to increase the epoch # as the model size increases... ie approx 180-200 for ResNe(X)t50, and 220+ for larger. Increase batch size and LR proportionally for better GPUs or with AMP enabled. These params were for 2 1080Ti cards:
The training of this model started with the same command line as EfficientNet-B2 w/ RA above. After almost three weeks of training the process crashed. The results weren't looking amazing so I resumed the training several times with tweaks to a few params (increase RE prob, decrease rand-aug, increase ema-decay). Nothing looked great. I ended up averaging the best checkpoints from all restarts. The result is mediocre at default res/crop but oddly performs much better with a full image test crop of 1.0.
[Michael Klachko](https://github.com/michaelklachko) achieved these results with the command line for B2 adapted for larger batch size, with the recommended B0 dropout rate of 0.2.
Trained on two older 1080Ti cards, this took a while. Only slightly, non statistically better ImageNet validation result than my first good AugMix training of 78.99. However, these weights are more robust on tests with ImageNetV2, ImageNet-Sketch, etc. Unlike my first AugMix runs, I've enabled SplitBatchNorm, disabled random erasing on the clean split, and cranked up random erasing prob on the 2 augmented paths.
Trained by [Andrew Lavin](https://github.com/andravin) with 8 V100 cards. Model EMA was not used, final checkpoint is the average of 8 best checkpoints during training.
These params will also work well for SE-ResNeXt-50 and SK-ResNeXt-50 and likely 101. I used them for the SK-ResNeXt-50 32x4d that I trained with 2 GPU using a slightly higher LR per effective batch size (lr=0.18, b=192 per GPU). The cmd line below are tuned for 8 GPU training.
