mindcv-2023/configs/mobilenetv3

• MobileNetV3
• • Introduction
  • Results
  • • • Notes
  • Quick Start
  • • Preparation
    • • Installation
      • Dataset Preparation
    • Training
    • Validation
    • Deployment
  • References

MobileNetV3

Searching for MobileNetV3

Introduction

MobileNet v3 was published in 2019, and this v3 version combines the deep separable convolution of v1, the Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottleneck of v2, and the SE module to search the configuration and parameters of the network using NAS (Neural Architecture Search).MobileNetV3 first uses MnasNet to perform a coarse structure search, and then uses reinforcement learning to select the optimal configuration from a set of discrete choices. Afterwards, MobileNetV3 then fine-tunes the architecture using NetAdapt, which exemplifies NetAdapt's complementary capability to tune underutilized activation channels with a small drop.

mobilenet-v3 offers two versions, mobilenet-v3 large and mobilenet-v3 small, for situations with different resource requirements. The paper mentions that mobilenet-v3 small, for the imagenet classification task, has an accuracy The paper mentions that mobilenet-v3 small achieves about 3.2% better accuracy and 15% less time than mobilenet-v2 for the imagenet classification task, mobilenet-v3 large achieves about 4.6% better accuracy and 5% less time than mobilenet-v2 for the imagenet classification task, mobilenet-v3 large achieves the same accuracy and 25% faster speedup in COCO compared to v2 The improvement in the segmentation algorithm is also observed.[1]

Figure 1. Architecture of MobileNetV3 [1]

Results

Our reproduced model performance on ImageNet-1K is reported as follows.

Model	Context	Top-1 (%)	Top-5 (%)	Params (M)	Recipe	Download
MobileNetV3_small_100	D910x8-G	67.34	87.49	2.55	yaml	weights
MobileNetV3_large_100	D910x8-G	75.14	92.33	5.51	yaml	weights

Notes

• Context: Training context denoted as {device}x{pieces}-{MS mode}, where mindspore mode can be G - graph mode or F - pynative mode with ms function. For example, D910x8-G is for training on 8 pieces of Ascend 910 NPU using graph mode.
• Top-1 and Top-5: Accuracy reported on the validation set of ImageNet-1K.

Quick Start

Preparation

Installation

Please refer to the installation instruction in MindCV.

Dataset Preparation

Please download the ImageNet-1K dataset for model training and validation.

Training

• Distributed Training

It is easy to reproduce the reported results with the pre-defined training recipe. For distributed training on multiple Ascend 910 devices, please run

# distributed training on multiple GPU/Ascend devices
mpirun -n 8 python train.py --config configs/mobilenetv3/mobilenet_v3_small_ascend.yaml --data_dir /path/to/imagenet

If the script is executed by the root user, the --allow-run-as-root parameter must be added to mpirun.

Similarly, you can train the model on multiple GPU devices with the above mpirun command.

For detailed illustration of all hyper-parameters, please refer to config.py.

Note: As the global batch size (batch_size x num_devices) is an important hyper-parameter, it is recommended to keep the global batch size unchanged for reproduction or adjust the learning rate linearly to a new global batch size.

• Standalone Training

If you want to train or finetune the model on a smaller dataset without distributed training, please run:

# standalone training on a CPU/GPU/Ascend device
python train.py --config configs/mobilenetv3/mobilenet_v3_small_ascend.yaml --data_dir /path/to/dataset --distribute False

Validation

To validate the accuracy of the trained model, you can use validate.py and parse the checkpoint path with --ckpt_path.

python validate.py -c configs/mobilenetv3/mobilenet_v3_small_ascend.yaml --data_dir /path/to/imagenet --ckpt_path /path/to/ckpt

Deployment

Please refer to the deployment tutorial in MindCV.

References

[1] Howard A, Sandler M, Chu G, et al. Searching for mobilenetv3[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision. 2019: 1314-1324.