mindcv_xcit/configs/convit

• ConViT
• • Introduction
  • Benchmark
  • Examples
  • • Train
    • Eval

ConViT

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ConViT: Improving Vision Transformers with Soft Convolutional Inductive Biases

Introduction

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ConViT combines e the strengths of convolutional architectures and Vision Transformers (ViTs). ConViT introduce gated positional self-attention (GPSA), a form of positional self-attention which can be equipped with a “soft” convolutional inductive bias. ConViT initialize the GPSA layers to mimic the locality of convolutional layers, then give each attention head the freedom to escape locality by adjusting a gating parameter regulating the attention paid to position versus content information. ConViT, outperforms the DeiT (Touvron et al., 2020) on ImageNet, while offering a much improved sample efficiency.

Benchmark

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				Pynative	Pynative	Graph	Graph
	Model	Top-1 (%)	Top-5 (%)	train (s/epoch)	Infer (ms)	train(s/epoch)	Infer (ms)	Download	Config
GPU	convit_tiny
Ascend	convit_tiny
GPU	convit_tiny_plus
Ascend	convit_tiny_plus
GPU	convit_small
Ascend	convit_small
GPU	convit_small_plus
Ascend	convit_small_plus
GPU	convit_base
Ascend	convit_base
GPU	convit_base_plus
Ascend	convit_base_plus

Examples

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Train

• The yaml config files that yield competitive results on ImageNet for different models are listed in the config folder. To trigger training using preset yaml config.

  export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
  mpirun -n 8 python train.py -c config/convit/convit_tiny_gpu.yaml --data_dir /path/to/imagenet
  

• Here is the example for finetuning a pretrained convit_tiny on CIFAR10 dataset using Adam optimizer.

  python train.py --model=convit_tiny --pretrained --opt=momentum --lr=0.001 dataset=cifar10 --num_classes=10 --dataset_download
  

Detailed adjustable parameters and their default value can be seen in config.py.

Eval

• To validate the model, you can use validate.py. Here is an example for convit_tiny to verify the accuracy of pretrained weights.

  python validate.py --model=convit_tiny --dataset=imagenet --val_split=val --pretrained
  

• To validate the model, you can use validate.py. Here is an example for convit_tiny to verify the accuracy of your training.

  python validate.py --model=convit_tiny --dataset=imagenet --val_split=val --ckpt_path='./ckpt/convit.ckpt'