diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3fa9701f..69effde4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ I'm fortunate to be able to dedicate significant time and money of my own suppor
 
 ## What's New
 
+### 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
@@ -410,6 +416,8 @@ Model validation results can be found in the [documentation](https://rwightman.g
 
 My current [documentation](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/) for `timm` covers the basics.
 
+[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](https://fastai.github.io/timmdocs/) 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.
 
 [paperswithcode](https://paperswithcode.com/lib/timm) is a good resource for browsing the models within `timm`.
diff --git a/tests/test_models.py b/tests/test_models.py
index 11e84027..4e50de6e 100644
--- a/tests/test_models.py
+++ b/tests/test_models.py
@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ if 'GITHUB_ACTIONS' in os.environ:
     EXCLUDE_FILTERS = [
         '*efficientnet_l2*', '*resnext101_32x48d', '*in21k', '*152x4_bitm', '*101x3_bitm', '*50x3_bitm',
         '*nfnet_f3*', '*nfnet_f4*', '*nfnet_f5*', '*nfnet_f6*', '*nfnet_f7*', '*efficientnetv2_xl*',
-        '*resnetrs350*', '*resnetrs420*', 'xcit_large_24_p8*', 'vit_huge*', 'vit_gi*']
-    NON_STD_EXCLUDE_FILTERS = ['vit_huge*', 'vit_gi*']
+        '*resnetrs350*', '*resnetrs420*', 'xcit_large_24_p8*', 'vit_huge*', 'vit_gi*', 'swin*huge*',
+        'swin*giant*']
+    NON_STD_EXCLUDE_FILTERS = ['vit_huge*', 'vit_gi*', 'swin*giant*']
 else:
     EXCLUDE_FILTERS = []
     NON_STD_EXCLUDE_FILTERS = ['vit_gi*']
diff --git a/timm/models/__init__.py b/timm/models/__init__.py
index 497aa53d..45ead5dc 100644
--- a/timm/models/__init__.py
+++ b/timm/models/__init__.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ from .selecsls import *
 from .senet import *
 from .sknet import *
 from .swin_transformer import *
+from .swin_transformer_v2_cr import *
 from .tnt import *
 from .tresnet import *
 from .twins import *
diff --git a/timm/models/swin_transformer_v2_cr.py b/timm/models/swin_transformer_v2_cr.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b2915bf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/timm/models/swin_transformer_v2_cr.py
@@ -0,0 +1,931 @@
+""" Swin Transformer V2
+
+A PyTorch impl of : `Swin Transformer V2: Scaling Up Capacity and Resolution`
+    - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.09883
+
+Code adapted from https://github.com/ChristophReich1996/Swin-Transformer-V2, original copyright/license info below
+
+This implementation is experimental and subject to change in manners that will break weight compat:
+* Size of the pos embed MLP are not spelled out in paper in terms of dim, fixed for all models? vary with num_heads?
+  * currently dim is fixed, I feel it may make sense to scale with num_heads (dim per head)
+* The specifics of the memory saving 'sequential attention' are not detailed, Christoph Reich has an impl at
+  GitHub link above. It needs further investigation as throughput vs mem tradeoff doesn't appear beneficial.
+* num_heads per stage is not detailed for Huge and Giant model variants
+* 'Giant' is 3B params in paper but ~2.6B here despite matching paper dim + block counts
+
+Noteworthy additions over official Swin v1:
+* MLP relative position embedding is looking promising and adapts to different image/window sizes
+* This impl has been designed to allow easy change of image size with matching window size changes
+* Non-square image size and window size are supported
+
+Modifications and additions for timm hacked together by / Copyright 2022, Ross Wightman
+"""
+# --------------------------------------------------------
+# Swin Transformer V2 reimplementation
+# Copyright (c) 2021 Christoph Reich
+# Licensed under The MIT License [see LICENSE for details]
+# Written by Christoph Reich
+# --------------------------------------------------------
+import logging
+import math
+from copy import deepcopy
+from typing import Tuple, Optional, List, Union, Any, Type
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.utils.checkpoint as checkpoint
+
+from timm.data import IMAGENET_DEFAULT_MEAN, IMAGENET_DEFAULT_STD
+from .fx_features import register_notrace_function
+from .helpers import build_model_with_cfg, overlay_external_default_cfg, named_apply
+from .layers import DropPath, Mlp, to_2tuple, _assert
+from .registry import register_model
+from .vision_transformer import checkpoint_filter_fn
+
+_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def _cfg(url='', **kwargs):
+    return {
+        'url': url,
+        'num_classes': 1000,
+        'input_size': (3, 224, 224),
+        'pool_size': None,
+        'crop_pct': 0.9,
+        'interpolation': 'bicubic',
+        'fixed_input_size': True,
+        'mean': IMAGENET_DEFAULT_MEAN,
+        'std': IMAGENET_DEFAULT_STD,
+        'first_conv': 'patch_embed.proj',
+        'classifier': 'head',
+        **kwargs,
+    }
+
+
+default_cfgs = {
+    # patch models (my experiments)
+    'swin_v2_cr_tiny_384': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 384, 384), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_tiny_224': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 224, 224), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_small_384': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 384, 384), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_small_224': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 224, 224), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_base_384': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 384, 384), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_base_224': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 224, 224), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_large_384': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 384, 384), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_large_224': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 224, 224), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_huge_384': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 384, 384), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_huge_224': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 224, 224), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_giant_384': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 384, 384), crop_pct=1.0),
+    'swin_v2_cr_giant_224': _cfg(
+        url="", input_size=(3, 224, 224), crop_pct=1.0),
+}
+
+
+def bchw_to_bhwc(x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Permutes a tensor from the shape (B, C, H, W) to (B, H, W, C). """
+    return x.permute(0, 2, 3, 1)
+
+
+def bhwc_to_bchw(x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Permutes a tensor from the shape (B, H, W, C) to (B, C, H, W). """
+    return x.permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
+
+
+def window_partition(x, window_size: Tuple[int, int]):
+    """
+    Args:
+        x: (B, H, W, C)
+        window_size (int): window size
+
+    Returns:
+        windows: (num_windows*B, window_size, window_size, C)
+    """
+    B, H, W, C = x.shape
+    x = x.view(B, H // window_size[0], window_size[0], W // window_size[1], window_size[1], C)
+    windows = x.permute(0, 1, 3, 2, 4, 5).contiguous().view(-1, window_size[0], window_size[1], C)
+    return windows
+
+
+@register_notrace_function  # reason: int argument is a Proxy
+def window_reverse(windows, window_size: tuple[int, int], img_size: tuple[int, int]):
+    """
+    Args:
+        windows: (num_windows * B, window_size[0], window_size[1], C)
+        window_size (Tuple[int, int]): Window size
+        img_size (Tuple[int, int]): Image size
+
+    Returns:
+        x: (B, H, W, C)
+    """
+    H, W = img_size
+    B = int(windows.shape[0] / (H * W / window_size[0] / window_size[1]))
+    x = windows.view(B, H // window_size[0], W // window_size[1], window_size[0], window_size[1], -1)
+    x = x.permute(0, 1, 3, 2, 4, 5).contiguous().view(B, H, W, -1)
+    return x
+
+
+class WindowMultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
+    r"""This class implements window-based Multi-Head-Attention with log-spaced continuous position bias.
+
+    Args:
+        dim (int): Number of input features
+        window_size (int): Window size
+        num_heads (int): Number of attention heads
+        drop_attn (float): Dropout rate of attention map
+        drop_proj (float): Dropout rate after projection
+        meta_hidden_dim (int): Number of hidden features in the two layer MLP meta network
+        sequential_attn (bool): If true sequential self-attention is performed
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        dim: int,
+        num_heads: int,
+        window_size: Tuple[int, int],
+        drop_attn: float = 0.0,
+        drop_proj: float = 0.0,
+        meta_hidden_dim: int = 384,  # FIXME what's the optimal value?
+        sequential_attn: bool = False,
+    ) -> None:
+        super(WindowMultiHeadAttention, self).__init__()
+        assert dim % num_heads == 0, \
+            "The number of input features (in_features) are not divisible by the number of heads (num_heads)."
+        self.in_features: int = dim
+        self.window_size: Tuple[int, int] = window_size
+        self.num_heads: int = num_heads
+        self.sequential_attn: bool = sequential_attn
+
+        self.qkv = nn.Linear(in_features=dim, out_features=dim * 3, bias=True)
+        self.attn_drop = nn.Dropout(drop_attn)
+        self.proj = nn.Linear(in_features=dim, out_features=dim, bias=True)
+        self.proj_drop = nn.Dropout(drop_proj)
+        # meta network for positional encodings
+        self.meta_mlp = Mlp(
+            2,  # x, y
+            hidden_features=meta_hidden_dim,
+            out_features=num_heads,
+            act_layer=nn.ReLU,
+            drop=0.  # FIXME should we add stochasticity?
+        )
+        self.register_parameter("tau", torch.nn.Parameter(torch.ones(num_heads)))
+        self._make_pair_wise_relative_positions()
+
+    def _make_pair_wise_relative_positions(self) -> None:
+        """Method initializes the pair-wise relative positions to compute the positional biases."""
+        device = self.tau.device
+        coordinates = torch.stack(torch.meshgrid([
+            torch.arange(self.window_size[0], device=device),
+            torch.arange(self.window_size[1], device=device)]), dim=0).flatten(1)
+        relative_coordinates = coordinates[:, :, None] - coordinates[:, None, :]
+        relative_coordinates = relative_coordinates.permute(1, 2, 0).reshape(-1, 2).float()
+        relative_coordinates_log = torch.sign(relative_coordinates) * torch.log(
+            1.0 + relative_coordinates.abs())
+        self.register_buffer("relative_coordinates_log", relative_coordinates_log, persistent=False)
+
+    def update_input_size(self, new_window_size: int, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
+        """Method updates the window size and so the pair-wise relative positions
+
+        Args:
+            new_window_size (int): New window size
+            kwargs (Any): Unused
+        """
+        # Set new window size and new pair-wise relative positions
+        self.window_size: int = new_window_size
+        self._make_pair_wise_relative_positions()
+
+    def _relative_positional_encodings(self) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Method computes the relative positional encodings
+
+        Returns:
+            relative_position_bias (torch.Tensor): Relative positional encodings
+            (1, number of heads, window size ** 2, window size ** 2)
+        """
+        window_area = self.window_size[0] * self.window_size[1]
+        relative_position_bias = self.meta_mlp(self.relative_coordinates_log)
+        relative_position_bias = relative_position_bias.transpose(1, 0).reshape(
+            self.num_heads, window_area, window_area
+        )
+        relative_position_bias = relative_position_bias.unsqueeze(0)
+        return relative_position_bias
+
+    def _forward_sequential(
+        self,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        """
+        # FIXME TODO figure out 'sequential' attention mentioned in paper (should reduce GPU memory)
+        assert False, "not implemented"
+
+    def _forward_batch(
+        self,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """This function performs standard (non-sequential) scaled cosine self-attention.
+        """
+        Bw, L, C = x.shape
+
+        qkv = self.qkv(x).view(Bw, L, 3, self.num_heads, C // self.num_heads).permute(2, 0, 3, 1, 4)
+        query, key, value = qkv.unbind(0)
+
+        # compute attention map with scaled cosine attention
+        denom = torch.norm(query, dim=-1, keepdim=True) @ torch.norm(key, dim=-1, keepdim=True).transpose(-2, -1)
+        attn = query @ key.transpose(-2, -1) / denom.clamp(min=1e-6)
+        attn = attn / self.tau.clamp(min=0.01).reshape(1, self.num_heads, 1, 1)
+        attn = attn + self._relative_positional_encodings()
+        if mask is not None:
+            # Apply mask if utilized
+            num_win: int = mask.shape[0]
+            attn = attn.view(Bw // num_win, num_win, self.num_heads, L, L)
+            attn = attn + mask.unsqueeze(1).unsqueeze(0)
+            attn = attn.view(-1, self.num_heads, L, L)
+        attn = attn.softmax(dim=-1)
+        attn = self.attn_drop(attn)
+
+        x = (attn @ value).transpose(1, 2).reshape(Bw, L, -1)
+        x = self.proj(x)
+        x = self.proj_drop(x)
+        return x
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """ Forward pass.
+        Args:
+            x (torch.Tensor): Input tensor of the shape (B * windows, N, C)
+            mask (Optional[torch.Tensor]): Attention mask for the shift case
+
+        Returns:
+            Output tensor of the shape [B * windows, N, C]
+        """
+        if self.sequential_attn:
+            return self._forward_sequential(x, mask)
+        else:
+            return self._forward_batch(x, mask)
+
+
+class SwinTransformerBlock(nn.Module):
+    r"""This class implements the Swin transformer block.
+
+    Args:
+        dim (int): Number of input channels
+        num_heads (int): Number of attention heads to be utilized
+        feat_size (Tuple[int, int]): Input resolution
+        window_size (Tuple[int, int]): Window size to be utilized
+        shift_size (int): Shifting size to be used
+        mlp_ratio (int): Ratio of the hidden dimension in the FFN to the input channels
+        drop (float): Dropout in input mapping
+        drop_attn (float): Dropout rate of attention map
+        drop_path (float): Dropout in main path
+        extra_norm (bool): Insert extra norm on 'main' branch if True
+        sequential_attn (bool): If true sequential self-attention is performed
+        norm_layer (Type[nn.Module]): Type of normalization layer to be utilized
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        dim: int,
+        num_heads: int,
+        feat_size: Tuple[int, int],
+        window_size: Tuple[int, int],
+        shift_size: Tuple[int, int] = (0, 0),
+        mlp_ratio: float = 4.0,
+        drop: float = 0.0,
+        drop_attn: float = 0.0,
+        drop_path: float = 0.0,
+        extra_norm: bool = False,
+        sequential_attn: bool = False,
+        norm_layer: Type[nn.Module] = nn.LayerNorm,
+    ) -> None:
+        super(SwinTransformerBlock, self).__init__()
+        self.dim: int = dim
+        self.feat_size: Tuple[int, int] = feat_size
+        self.target_shift_size: Tuple[int, int] = to_2tuple(shift_size)
+        self.window_size, self.shift_size = self._calc_window_shift(to_2tuple(window_size))
+        self.window_area = self.window_size[0] * self.window_size[1]
+
+        # attn branch
+        self.attn = WindowMultiHeadAttention(
+            dim=dim,
+            num_heads=num_heads,
+            window_size=self.window_size,
+            drop_attn=drop_attn,
+            drop_proj=drop,
+            sequential_attn=sequential_attn,
+        )
+        self.norm1 = norm_layer(dim)
+        self.drop_path1 = DropPath(drop_prob=drop_path) if drop_path > 0.0 else nn.Identity()
+
+        # mlp branch
+        self.mlp = Mlp(
+            in_features=dim,
+            hidden_features=int(dim * mlp_ratio),
+            drop=drop,
+            out_features=dim,
+        )
+        self.norm2 = norm_layer(dim)
+        self.drop_path2 = DropPath(drop_prob=drop_path) if drop_path > 0.0 else nn.Identity()
+
+        # extra norm layer mentioned for Huge/Giant models in V2 paper (FIXME may be in wrong spot?)
+        self.norm3 = norm_layer(dim) if extra_norm else nn.Identity()
+
+        self._make_attention_mask()
+
+    def _calc_window_shift(self, target_window_size):
+        window_size = [f if f <= w else w for f, w in zip(self.feat_size, target_window_size)]
+        shift_size = [0 if f <= w else s for f, w, s in zip(self.feat_size, window_size, self.target_shift_size)]
+        return tuple(window_size), tuple(shift_size)
+
+    def _make_attention_mask(self) -> None:
+        """Method generates the attention mask used in shift case."""
+        # Make masks for shift case
+        if any(self.shift_size):
+            # calculate attention mask for SW-MSA
+            H, W = self.feat_size
+            img_mask = torch.zeros((1, H, W, 1))  # 1 H W 1
+            cnt = 0
+            for h in (
+                    slice(0, -self.window_size[0]),
+                    slice(-self.window_size[0], -self.shift_size[0]),
+                    slice(-self.shift_size[0], None)):
+                for w in (
+                        slice(0, -self.window_size[1]),
+                        slice(-self.window_size[1], -self.shift_size[1]),
+                        slice(-self.shift_size[1], None)):
+                    img_mask[:, h, w, :] = cnt
+                    cnt += 1
+            mask_windows = window_partition(img_mask, self.window_size)  # num_windows, window_size, window_size, 1
+            mask_windows = mask_windows.view(-1, self.window_area)
+            attn_mask = mask_windows.unsqueeze(1) - mask_windows.unsqueeze(2)
+            attn_mask = attn_mask.masked_fill(attn_mask != 0, float(-100.0)).masked_fill(attn_mask == 0, float(0.0))
+        else:
+            attn_mask = None
+        self.register_buffer("attn_mask", attn_mask, persistent=False)
+
+    def update_input_size(self, new_window_size: Tuple[int, int], new_feat_size: Tuple[int, int]) -> None:
+        """Method updates the image resolution to be processed and window size and so the pair-wise relative positions.
+
+        Args:
+            new_window_size (int): New window size
+            new_feat_size (Tuple[int, int]): New input resolution
+        """
+        # Update input resolution
+        self.feat_size: Tuple[int, int] = new_feat_size
+        self.window_size, self.shift_size = self._calc_window_shift(to_2tuple(new_window_size))
+        self.window_area = self.window_size[0] * self.window_size[1]
+        self.attn.update_input_size(new_window_size=self.window_size)
+        self._make_attention_mask()
+
+    def _shifted_window_attn(self, x):
+        H, W = self.feat_size
+        B, L, C = x.shape
+        x = x.view(B, H, W, C)
+
+        # cyclic shift
+        if any(self.shift_size):
+            shifted_x = torch.roll(x, shifts=(-self.shift_size[0], -self.shift_size[1]), dims=(1, 2))
+        else:
+            shifted_x = x
+
+        # partition windows
+        x_windows = window_partition(shifted_x, self.window_size)  # num_windows * B, window_size, window_size, C
+        x_windows = x_windows.view(-1, self.window_size[0] * self.window_size[1], C)
+
+        # W-MSA/SW-MSA
+        attn_windows = self.attn(x_windows, mask=self.attn_mask)  # num_windows * B, window_size * window_size, C
+
+        # merge windows
+        attn_windows = attn_windows.view(-1, self.window_size[0], self.window_size[1], C)
+        shifted_x = window_reverse(attn_windows, self.window_size, self.feat_size)  # B H' W' C
+
+        # reverse cyclic shift
+        if any(self.shift_size):
+            x = torch.roll(shifted_x, shifts=self.shift_size, dims=(1, 2))
+        else:
+            x = shifted_x
+
+        x = x.view(B, L, C)
+        return x
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Forward pass.
+
+        Args:
+            x (torch.Tensor): Input tensor of the shape [B, C, H, W]
+
+        Returns:
+            output (torch.Tensor): Output tensor of the shape [B, C, H, W]
+        """
+        # NOTE post-norm branches (op -> norm -> drop)
+        x = x + self.drop_path1(self.norm1(self._shifted_window_attn(x)))
+        x = x + self.drop_path2(self.norm2(self.mlp(x)))
+        x = self.norm3(x)  # main-branch norm enabled for some blocks (every 6 for Huge/Giant)
+        return x
+
+
+class PatchMerging(nn.Module):
+    """ This class implements the patch merging as a strided convolution with a normalization before.
+    Args:
+        dim (int): Number of input channels
+        norm_layer (Type[nn.Module]): Type of normalization layer to be utilized.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, dim: int, norm_layer: Type[nn.Module] = nn.LayerNorm) -> None:
+        super(PatchMerging, self).__init__()
+        self.norm = norm_layer(4 * dim)
+        self.reduction = nn.Linear(in_features=4 * dim, out_features=2 * dim, bias=False)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """ Forward pass.
+        Args:
+            x (torch.Tensor): Input tensor of the shape [B, C, H, W]
+        Returns:
+            output (torch.Tensor): Output tensor of the shape [B, 2 * C, H // 2, W // 2]
+        """
+        x = bchw_to_bhwc(x).unfold(dimension=1, size=2, step=2).unfold(dimension=2, size=2, step=2)
+        x = x.permute(0, 1, 2, 5, 4, 3).flatten(3)  # permute maintains compat with ch order in official swin impl
+        x = self.norm(x)
+        x = bhwc_to_bchw(self.reduction(x))
+        return x
+
+
+class PatchEmbed(nn.Module):
+    """ 2D Image to Patch Embedding """
+    def __init__(self, img_size=224, patch_size=16, in_chans=3, embed_dim=768, norm_layer=None):
+        super().__init__()
+        img_size = to_2tuple(img_size)
+        patch_size = to_2tuple(patch_size)
+        self.img_size = img_size
+        self.patch_size = patch_size
+        self.grid_size = (img_size[0] // patch_size[0], img_size[1] // patch_size[1])
+        self.num_patches = self.grid_size[0] * self.grid_size[1]
+
+        self.proj = nn.Conv2d(in_chans, embed_dim, kernel_size=patch_size, stride=patch_size)
+        self.norm = norm_layer(embed_dim) if norm_layer else nn.Identity()
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        B, C, H, W = x.shape
+        _assert(H == self.img_size[0], f"Input image height ({H}) doesn't match model ({self.img_size[0]}).")
+        _assert(W == self.img_size[1], f"Input image width ({W}) doesn't match model ({self.img_size[1]}).")
+        x = self.proj(x)
+        x = self.norm(x.permute(0, 2, 3, 1)).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
+        return x
+
+
+class SwinTransformerStage(nn.Module):
+    r"""This class implements a stage of the Swin transformer including multiple layers.
+
+    Args:
+        embed_dim (int): Number of input channels
+        depth (int): Depth of the stage (number of layers)
+        downscale (bool): If true input is downsampled (see Fig. 3 or V1 paper)
+        feat_size (Tuple[int, int]): input feature map size (H, W)
+        num_heads (int): Number of attention heads to be utilized
+        window_size (int): Window size to be utilized
+        mlp_ratio (int): Ratio of the hidden dimension in the FFN to the input channels
+        drop (float): Dropout in input mapping
+        drop_attn (float): Dropout rate of attention map
+        drop_path (float): Dropout in main path
+        norm_layer (Type[nn.Module]): Type of normalization layer to be utilized. Default: nn.LayerNorm
+        grad_checkpointing (bool): If true checkpointing is utilized
+        extra_norm_period (int): Insert extra norm layer on main branch every N (period) blocks
+        sequential_attn (bool): If true sequential self-attention is performed
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        embed_dim: int,
+        depth: int,
+        downscale: bool,
+        num_heads: int,
+        feat_size: Tuple[int, int],
+        window_size: Tuple[int, int],
+        mlp_ratio: float = 4.0,
+        drop: float = 0.0,
+        drop_attn: float = 0.0,
+        drop_path: Union[List[float], float] = 0.0,
+        norm_layer: Type[nn.Module] = nn.LayerNorm,
+        grad_checkpointing: bool = False,
+        extra_norm_period: int = 0,
+        sequential_attn: bool = False,
+    ) -> None:
+        super(SwinTransformerStage, self).__init__()
+        self.downscale: bool = downscale
+        self.grad_checkpointing: bool = grad_checkpointing
+        self.feat_size: Tuple[int, int] = (feat_size[0] // 2, feat_size[1] // 2) if downscale else feat_size
+
+        self.downsample = PatchMerging(embed_dim, norm_layer=norm_layer) if downscale else nn.Identity()
+
+        embed_dim = embed_dim * 2 if downscale else embed_dim
+        self.blocks = nn.Sequential(*[
+            SwinTransformerBlock(
+                dim=embed_dim,
+                num_heads=num_heads,
+                feat_size=self.feat_size,
+                window_size=window_size,
+                shift_size=tuple([0 if ((index % 2) == 0) else w // 2 for w in window_size]),
+                mlp_ratio=mlp_ratio,
+                drop=drop,
+                drop_attn=drop_attn,
+                drop_path=drop_path[index] if isinstance(drop_path, list) else drop_path,
+                extra_norm=not (index + 1) % extra_norm_period if extra_norm_period else False,
+                sequential_attn=sequential_attn,
+                norm_layer=norm_layer,
+            )
+            for index in range(depth)]
+        )
+
+    def update_input_size(self, new_window_size: int, new_feat_size: Tuple[int, int]) -> None:
+        """Method updates the resolution to utilize and the window size and so the pair-wise relative positions.
+
+        Args:
+            new_window_size (int): New window size
+            new_feat_size (Tuple[int, int]): New input resolution
+        """
+        self.feat_size: Tuple[int, int] = (
+            (new_feat_size[0] // 2, new_feat_size[1] // 2) if self.downscale else new_feat_size
+        )
+        for block in self.blocks:
+            block.update_input_size(new_window_size=new_window_size, new_feat_size=self.feat_size)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Forward pass.
+        Args:
+            x (torch.Tensor): Input tensor of the shape [B, C, H, W] or [B, L, C]
+        Returns:
+            output (torch.Tensor): Output tensor of the shape [B, 2 * C, H // 2, W // 2]
+        """
+        x = self.downsample(x)
+        B, C, H, W = x.shape
+        L = H * W
+
+        x = bchw_to_bhwc(x).reshape(B, L, C)
+        for block in self.blocks:
+            # Perform checkpointing if utilized
+            if self.grad_checkpointing and not torch.jit.is_scripting():
+                x = checkpoint.checkpoint(block, x)
+            else:
+                x = block(x)
+        x = bhwc_to_bchw(x.reshape(B, H, W, -1))
+        return x
+
+
+class SwinTransformerV2Cr(nn.Module):
+    r""" Swin Transformer V2
+        A PyTorch impl of : `Swin Transformer V2: Scaling Up Capacity and Resolution`  -
+          https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.09883
+
+    Args:
+        img_size (Tuple[int, int]): Input resolution.
+        window_size (Optional[int]): Window size. If None, img_size // window_div. Default: None
+        img_window_ratio (int): Window size to image size ratio. Default: 32
+        patch_size (int | tuple(int)): Patch size. Default: 4
+        in_chans (int): Number of input channels.
+        depths (int): Depth of the stage (number of layers).
+        num_heads (int): Number of attention heads to be utilized.
+        embed_dim (int): Patch embedding dimension. Default: 96
+        num_classes (int): Number of output classes. Default: 1000
+        mlp_ratio (int):  Ratio of the hidden dimension in the FFN to the input channels. Default: 4
+        drop_rate (float): Dropout rate. Default: 0.0
+        attn_drop_rate (float): Dropout rate of attention map. Default: 0.0
+        drop_path_rate (float): Stochastic depth rate. Default: 0.0
+        norm_layer (Type[nn.Module]): Type of normalization layer to be utilized. Default: nn.LayerNorm
+        grad_checkpointing (bool): If true checkpointing is utilized. Default: False
+        sequential_attn (bool): If true sequential self-attention is performed. Default: False
+        use_deformable (bool): If true deformable block is used. Default: False
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        img_size: Tuple[int, int] = (224, 224),
+        patch_size: int = 4,
+        window_size: Optional[int] = None,
+        img_window_ratio: int = 32,
+        in_chans: int = 3,
+        num_classes: int = 1000,
+        embed_dim: int = 96,
+        depths: Tuple[int, ...] = (2, 2, 6, 2),
+        num_heads: Tuple[int, ...] = (3, 6, 12, 24),
+        mlp_ratio: float = 4.0,
+        drop_rate: float = 0.0,
+        attn_drop_rate: float = 0.0,
+        drop_path_rate: float = 0.0,
+        norm_layer: Type[nn.Module] = nn.LayerNorm,
+        grad_checkpointing: bool = False,
+        extra_norm_period: int = 0,
+        sequential_attn: bool = False,
+        global_pool: str = 'avg',
+        **kwargs: Any
+    ) -> None:
+        super(SwinTransformerV2Cr, self).__init__()
+        img_size = to_2tuple(img_size)
+        window_size = tuple([
+            s // img_window_ratio for s in img_size]) if window_size is None else to_2tuple(window_size)
+
+        self.num_classes: int = num_classes
+        self.patch_size: int = patch_size
+        self.img_size: Tuple[int, int] = img_size
+        self.window_size: int = window_size
+        self.num_features: int = int(embed_dim * 2 ** (len(depths) - 1))
+
+        self.patch_embed: nn.Module = PatchEmbed(
+            img_size=img_size, patch_size=patch_size, in_chans=in_chans,
+            embed_dim=embed_dim, norm_layer=norm_layer)
+        patch_grid_size: Tuple[int, int] = self.patch_embed.grid_size
+
+        drop_path_rate = torch.linspace(0.0, drop_path_rate, sum(depths)).tolist()
+        stages = []
+        for index, (depth, num_heads) in enumerate(zip(depths, num_heads)):
+            stage_scale = 2 ** max(index - 1, 0)
+            stages.append(
+                SwinTransformerStage(
+                    embed_dim=embed_dim * stage_scale,
+                    depth=depth,
+                    downscale=index != 0,
+                    feat_size=(patch_grid_size[0] // stage_scale, patch_grid_size[1] // stage_scale),
+                    num_heads=num_heads,
+                    window_size=window_size,
+                    mlp_ratio=mlp_ratio,
+                    drop=drop_rate,
+                    drop_attn=attn_drop_rate,
+                    drop_path=drop_path_rate[sum(depths[:index]):sum(depths[:index + 1])],
+                    grad_checkpointing=grad_checkpointing,
+                    extra_norm_period=extra_norm_period,
+                    sequential_attn=sequential_attn,
+                    norm_layer=norm_layer,
+                )
+            )
+        self.stages = nn.Sequential(*stages)
+
+        self.global_pool: str = global_pool
+        self.head: nn.Module = nn.Linear(
+            in_features=self.num_features, out_features=num_classes) if num_classes else nn.Identity()
+
+        # FIXME weight init TBD, PyTorch default init appears to be working well,
+        # but differs from usual ViT or Swin init.
+        # named_apply(init_weights, self)
+
+    def update_input_size(
+            self,
+            new_img_size: Optional[Tuple[int, int]] = None,
+            new_window_size: Optional[int] = None,
+            img_window_ratio: int = 32,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Method updates the image resolution to be processed and window size and so the pair-wise relative positions.
+
+        Args:
+            new_window_size (Optional[int]): New window size, if None based on new_img_size // window_div
+            new_img_size (Optional[Tuple[int, int]]): New input resolution, if None current resolution is used
+            img_window_ratio (int): divisor for calculating window size from image size
+        """
+        # Check parameters
+        if new_img_size is None:
+            new_img_size = self.img_size
+        else:
+            new_img_size = to_2tuple(new_img_size)
+        if new_window_size is None:
+            new_window_size = tuple([s // img_window_ratio for s in new_img_size])
+        # Compute new patch resolution & update resolution of each stage
+        new_patch_grid_size = (new_img_size[0] // self.patch_size, new_img_size[1] // self.patch_size)
+        for index, stage in enumerate(self.stages):
+            stage_scale = 2 ** max(index - 1, 0)
+            stage.update_input_size(
+                new_window_size=new_window_size,
+                new_img_size=(new_patch_grid_size[0] // stage_scale, new_patch_grid_size[1] // stage_scale),
+            )
+
+    def get_classifier(self) -> nn.Module:
+        """Method returns the classification head of the model.
+        Returns:
+            head (nn.Module): Current classification head
+        """
+        head: nn.Module = self.head
+        return head
+
+    def reset_classifier(self, num_classes: int, global_pool: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
+        """Method results the classification head
+
+        Args:
+            num_classes (int): Number of classes to be predicted
+            global_pool (str): Unused
+        """
+        self.num_classes: int = num_classes
+        if global_pool is not None:
+            self.global_pool = global_pool
+        self.head: nn.Module = nn.Linear(
+            in_features=self.num_features, out_features=num_classes) if num_classes > 0 else nn.Identity()
+
+    def forward_features(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        x = self.patch_embed(x)
+        x = self.stages(x)
+        return x
+
+    def forward_head(self, x, pre_logits: bool = False):
+        if self.global_pool == 'avg':
+            x = x.mean(dim=(2, 3))
+        return x if pre_logits else self.head(x)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        x = self.forward_features(x)
+        x = self.forward_head(x)
+        return x
+
+
+def init_weights(module: nn.Module, name: str = ''):
+    # FIXME WIP
+    if isinstance(module, nn.Linear):
+        if 'qkv' in name:
+            # treat the weights of Q, K, V separately
+            val = math.sqrt(6. / float(module.weight.shape[0] // 3 + module.weight.shape[1]))
+            nn.init.uniform_(module.weight, -val, val)
+        else:
+            nn.init.xavier_uniform_(module.weight)
+        if module.bias is not None:
+            nn.init.zeros_(module.bias)
+
+
+def _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr(variant, pretrained=False, default_cfg=None, **kwargs):
+    if default_cfg is None:
+        default_cfg = deepcopy(default_cfgs[variant])
+    overlay_external_default_cfg(default_cfg, kwargs)
+    default_num_classes = default_cfg['num_classes']
+    default_img_size = default_cfg['input_size'][-2:]
+
+    num_classes = kwargs.pop('num_classes', default_num_classes)
+    img_size = kwargs.pop('img_size', default_img_size)
+    if kwargs.get('features_only', None):
+        raise RuntimeError('features_only not implemented for Vision Transformer models.')
+
+    model = build_model_with_cfg(
+        SwinTransformerV2Cr,
+        variant,
+        pretrained,
+        default_cfg=default_cfg,
+        img_size=img_size,
+        num_classes=num_classes,
+        pretrained_filter_fn=checkpoint_filter_fn,
+        **kwargs
+    )
+
+    return model
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_tiny_384(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-T V2 CR @ 384x384, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=96,
+        depths=(2, 2, 6, 2),
+        num_heads=(3, 6, 12, 24),
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_tiny_384', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_tiny_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-T V2 CR @ 224x224, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=96,
+        depths=(2, 2, 6, 2),
+        num_heads=(3, 6, 12, 24),
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_tiny_224', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_small_384(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-S V2 CR @ 384x384, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=96,
+        depths=(2, 2, 18, 2),
+        num_heads=(3, 6, 12, 24),
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_small_384', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs
+    )
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_small_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-S V2 CR @ 224x224, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=96,
+        depths=(2, 2, 18, 2),
+        num_heads=(3, 6, 12, 24),
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_small_224', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_base_384(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-B V2 CR @ 384x384, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=128,
+        depths=(2, 2, 18, 2),
+        num_heads=(4, 8, 16, 32),
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_base_384', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_base_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-B V2 CR @ 224x224, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=128,
+        depths=(2, 2, 18, 2),
+        num_heads=(4, 8, 16, 32),
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_base_224', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_large_384(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-L V2 CR @ 384x384, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=192,
+        depths=(2, 2, 18, 2),
+        num_heads=(6, 12, 24, 48),
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_large_384', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs
+    )
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_large_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-L V2 CR @ 224x224, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=192,
+        depths=(2, 2, 18, 2),
+        num_heads=(6, 12, 24, 48),
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_large_224', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_huge_384(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-H V2 CR @ 384x384, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=352,
+        depths=(2, 2, 18, 2),
+        num_heads=(11, 22, 44, 88),  # head count not certain for Huge, 384 & 224 trying diff values
+        extra_norm_period=6,
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_huge_384', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_huge_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-H V2 CR @ 224x224, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=352,
+        depths=(2, 2, 18, 2),
+        num_heads=(8, 16, 32, 64),  # head count not certain for Huge, 384 & 224 trying diff values
+        extra_norm_period=6,
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_huge_224', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_giant_384(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-G V2 CR @ 384x384, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=512,
+        depths=(2, 2, 42, 2),
+        num_heads=(16, 32, 64, 128),
+        extra_norm_period=6,
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_giant_384', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs
+    )
+
+
+@register_model
+def swin_v2_cr_giant_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
+    """Swin-G V2 CR @ 224x224, trained ImageNet-1k"""
+    model_kwargs = dict(
+        embed_dim=512,
+        depths=(2, 2, 42, 2),
+        num_heads=(16, 32, 64, 128),
+        extra_norm_period=6,
+        **kwargs
+    )
+    return _create_swin_transformer_v2_cr('swin_v2_cr_giant_224', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)