test/configs/senet

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

SENet

Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks

Introduction

In this work, the authors focus instead on the channel relationship and propose a novel architectural unit, which the
authors term the "Squeeze-and-Excitation" (SE) block, that adaptively recalibrates channel-wise feature responses by
explicitly modelling interdependencies between channels. The results show that these blocks can be stacked together to
form SENet architectures that generalise extremely effectively across different datasets. The authors further
demonstrate that SE blocks bring significant improvements in performance for existing state-of-the-art CNNs at slight
additional computational cost.[1]

Figure 1. Architecture of SENet [1]

Results

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

Model	Context	Top-1 (%)	Top-5 (%)	Params (M)	Recipe	Download
SEResNet18	D910x8-G	71.81	90.49	11.80	yaml	weights
SEResNet34	D910x8-G	75.38	92.50	21.98	yaml	weights
SEResNet50	D910x8-G	78.32	94.07	28.14	yaml	weights
SEResNeXt26_32x4d	D910x8-G	77.17	93.42	16.83	yaml	weights
SEResNeXt50_32x4d	D910x8-G	78.71	94.36	27.63	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/senet/seresnet50_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/senet/seresnet50_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/senet/seresnet50_ascend.yaml --data_dir /path/to/imagenet --ckpt_path /path/to/ckpt

Deployment

Please refer to the deployment tutorial in MindCV.

References

[1] Hu J, Shen L, Sun G. Squeeze-and-excitation networks[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2018: 7132-7141.