# Res2Net **Res2Net** is an image model that employs a variation on bottleneck residual blocks, [Res2Net Blocks](https://paperswithcode.com/method/res2net-block). The motivation is to be able to represent features at multiple scales. This is achieved through a novel building block for CNNs that constructs hierarchical residual-like connections within one single residual block. This represents multi-scale features at a granular level and increases the range of receptive fields for each network layer. {% include 'code_snippets.md' %} ## How do I train this model? You can follow the [timm recipe scripts](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/scripts/) for training a new model afresh. ## Citation ```BibTeX @article{Gao_2021, title={Res2Net: A New Multi-Scale Backbone Architecture}, volume={43}, ISSN={1939-3539}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2938758}, DOI={10.1109/tpami.2019.2938758}, number={2}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, author={Gao, Shang-Hua and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Zhao, Kai and Zhang, Xin-Yu and Yang, Ming-Hsuan and Torr, Philip}, year={2021}, month={Feb}, pages={652–662} } ```