mmclassification/configs/hornet

• HorNet
• • Abstract
  • Results and models
  • • ImageNet-1k
    • Pre-trained Models
  • Citation

HorNet

HorNet: Efficient High-Order Spatial Interactions with Recursive Gated Convolutions

Abstract

Recent progress in vision Transformers exhibits great success in various tasks driven by the new spatial modeling mechanism based on dot-product self-attention. In this paper, we show that the key ingredients behind the vision Transformers, namely input-adaptive, long-range and high-order spatial interactions, can also be efficiently implemented with a convolution-based framework. We present the Recursive Gated Convolution (g nConv) that performs high-order spatial interactions with gated convolutions and recursive designs. The new operation is highly flexible and customizable, which is compatible with various variants of convolution and extends the two-order interactions in self-attention to arbitrary orders without introducing significant extra computation. g nConv can serve as a plug-and-play module to improve various vision Transformers and convolution-based models. Based on the operation, we construct a new family of generic vision backbones named HorNet. Extensive experiments on ImageNet classification, COCO object detection and ADE20K semantic segmentation show HorNet outperform Swin Transformers and ConvNeXt by a significant margin with similar overall architecture and training configurations. HorNet also shows favorable scalability to more training data and a larger model size. Apart from the effectiveness in visual encoders, we also show g nConv can be applied to task-specific decoders and consistently improve dense prediction performance with less computation. Our results demonstrate that g nConv can be a new basic module for visual modeling that effectively combines the merits of both vision Transformers and CNNs. Code is available at https://github.com/raoyongming/HorNet.

Results and models

ImageNet-1k

Model	Pretrain	resolution	Params(M)	Flops(G)	Top-1 (%)	Top-5 (%)	Config	Download
HorNet-T*	From scratch	224x224	22.41	3.98	82.84	96.24	config	model
HorNet-T-GF*	From scratch	224x224	22.99	3.9	82.98	96.38	config	model
HorNet-S*	From scratch	224x224	49.53	8.83	83.79	96.75	config	model
HorNet-S-GF*	From scratch	224x224	50.4	8.71	83.98	96.77	config	model
HorNet-B*	From scratch	224x224	87.26	15.59	84.24	96.94	config	model
HorNet-B-GF*	From scratch	224x224	88.42	15.42	84.32	96.95	config	model

*Models with * are converted from the official repo. The config files of these models are only for validation. We don't ensure these config files' training accuracy and welcome you to contribute your reproduction results.

Pre-trained Models

The pre-trained models on ImageNet-21k are used to fine-tune on the downstream tasks.

Model	Pretrain	resolution	Params(M)	Flops(G)	Download
HorNet-L*	ImageNet-21k	224x224	194.54	34.83	model
HorNet-L-GF*	ImageNet-21k	224x224	196.29	34.58	model
HorNet-L-GF384*	ImageNet-21k	384x384	201.23	101.63	model

*Models with * are converted from the official repo.

Citation

@article{rao2022hornet,
  title={HorNet: Efficient High-Order Spatial Interactions with Recursive Gated Convolutions},
  author={Rao, Yongming and Zhao, Wenliang and Tang, Yansong and Zhou, Jie and Lim, Ser-Lam and Lu, Jiwen},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.14284},
  year={2022}
}