mindcv-main/configs/xception

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

Xception

Xception: Deep Learning with Depthwise Separable Convolutions

Introduction

Xception is another improved network of InceptionV3 in addition to inceptionV4, using a deep convolutional neural
network architecture involving depthwise separable convolution, which was developed by Google researchers. Google
interprets the Inception module in convolutional neural networks as an intermediate step between regular convolution and
depthwise separable convolution operations. From this point of view, the depthwise separable convolution can be
understood as having the largest number of Inception modules, that is, the extreme idea proposed in the paper, combined
with the idea of residual network, Google proposed a new type of deep convolutional neural network inspired by Inception
Network architecture where the Inception module has been replaced by a depthwise separable convolution module.[1]

Figure 1. Architecture of Xception [1]

Results

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

Model	Context	Top-1 (%)	Top-5 (%)	Params (M)	Recipe	Download
Xception	D910x8-G	79.01	94.25	22.91	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/xception/xception_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/xception/xception_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/xception/xception_ascend.yaml --data_dir /path/to/imagenet --ckpt_path /path/to/ckpt

Deployment

Please refer to the deployment tutorial in MindCV.

References

[1] Chollet F. Xception: Deep learning with depthwise separable convolutions[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2017: 1251-1258.