A ECA-NFNet-Lite (Lightweight NFNet w/ ECA attention) image classification model. Trained in timm by Ross Wightman.
Normalization Free Networks are (pre-activation) ResNet-like models without any normalization layers. Instead of Batch Normalization or alternatives, they use Scaled Weight Standardization and specifically placed scalar gains in residual path and at non-linearities based on signal propagation analysis.
Lightweight NFNets are timm specific variants that reduce the SE and bottleneck ratio from 0.5 -> 0.25 (reducing widths) and use a smaller group size while maintaining the same depth. SiLU activations used instead of GELU.
This NFNet variant also uses ECA (Efficient Channel Attention) instead of SE (Squeeze-and-Excitation).
@article{brock2021high,
author={Andrew Brock and Soham De and Samuel L. Smith and Karen Simonyan},
title={High-Performance Large-Scale Image Recognition Without Normalization},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06171},
year={2021}
}
@inproceedings{brock2021characterizing,
author={Andrew Brock and Soham De and Samuel L. Smith},
title={Characterizing signal propagation to close the performance gap in
unnormalized ResNets},
booktitle={9th International Conference on Learning Representations, {ICLR}},
year={2021}
}
@misc{rw2019timm,
author = {Ross Wightman},
title = {PyTorch Image Models},
year = {2019},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4414861},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models}}
}
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