where can i download the pretrained model?

[TingquanGao]

[hunto]

Sorry @TingquanGao ,

The trained checkpoints of our method were lost. Is it convenient for you to train the models using the code?

[TingquanGao]

thx for your reply. i want to reproduce this model, so it is best if the pretrained could be provided. i would retrain using the code.

[TingquanGao]

hi, because want to reproduce this work, i tried to train the resnet18 using image_classification_sota and the top1 acc got is 70.8 that is better than proposed in the paper(69.54). i dont know if my setting is wrong. waiting for your reply, thx.

script is:

python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=4 tools/train.py -c configs/strategies/resnet/resnet.yaml --model resnet18 --experiment imagenet_res18

because of 4 gpus used, i set the batch size of per gpu to 64. and others hyper-parameters are set by default.

btw, i found the settings of dyrep-resnet18 and resnet18 are different , such as learning rate decay, color jitter. is there any reasons for this?

[hunto]

Hi @TingquanGao ,

In our paper, we directly report the baseline ACC (69.54) trained by DBB[1]. For training strategy, the baseline, DBB, and DyRep models are all trained using the same strategy (configs/strategies/DyRep/resnet.yaml), which is different to the official strategy in torchvision (configs/strategies/resnet/resnet.yaml); e.g., cosine lr decay and color jitter. We just follow DBB for fair comparisons.

For the reason why DBB authors used a stronger strategy, it is not explained in DBB paper. Personally, I guess a stronger strategy can show the superiority of DBB in representation ability better.

[1] Ding, X., Zhang, X., Han, J. and Ding, G., 2021. Diverse branch block: Building a convolution as an inception-like unit. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 10886-10895).