mobilenetv3

MobileNetV3

Searching for MobileNetV3

Introduction

MobileNet v3 was published in 2019, and this v3 version combines the deep separable convolution of v1, the Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottleneck of v2, and the SE module to search the configuration and parameters of the network using NAS (Neural Architecture Search).MobileNetV3 first uses MnasNet to perform a coarse structure search, and then uses reinforcement learning to select the optimal configuration from a set of discrete choices. Afterwards, MobileNetV3 then fine-tunes the architecture using NetAdapt, which exemplifies NetAdapt's complementary capability to tune underutilized activation channels with a small drop.

mobilenet-v3 offers two versions, mobilenet-v3 large and mobilenet-v3 small, for situations with different resource requirements. The paper mentions that mobilenet-v3 small, for the imagenet classification task, has an accuracy The paper mentions that mobilenet-v3 small achieves about 3.2% better accuracy and 15% less time than mobilenet-v2 for the imagenet classification task, mobilenet-v3 large achieves about 4.6% better accuracy and 5% less time than mobilenet-v2 for the imagenet classification task, mobilenet-v3 large achieves the same accuracy and 25% faster speedup in COCO compared to v2 The improvement in the segmentation algorithm is also observed.[1]

Figure 1. Architecture of MobileNetV3 [1]

Requirements

mindspore	ascend driver	firmware	cann toolkit/kernel
2.3.1	24.1.RC2	7.3.0.1.231	8.0.RC2.beta1

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 NPU devices
msrun --bind_core=True --worker_num 8 python train.py --config configs/mobilenetv3/mobilenet_v3_small_ascend.yaml --data_dir /path/to/imagenet

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 single NPU device
python train.py --config configs/mobilenetv3/mobilenet_v3_small_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/mobilenetv3/mobilenet_v3_small_ascend.yaml --data_dir /path/to/imagenet --ckpt_path /path/to/ckpt

Performance

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

Experiments are tested on ascend 910* with mindspore 2.3.1 graph mode.

model name	params(M)	cards	batch size	resolution	jit level	graph compile	ms/step	img/s	acc@top1	acc@top5	recipe	weight
mobilenet_v3_small_100	2.55	8	75	224x224	O2	184s	52.38	11454.75	68.07	87.77	yaml	weights
mobilenet_v3_large_100	5.51	8	75	224x224	O2	354s	55.89	10735.37	75.59	92.57	yaml	weights

Experiments are tested on ascend 910 with mindspore 2.3.1 graph mode.

model name	params(M)	cards	batch size	resolution	jit level	graph compile	ms/step	img/s	acc@top1	acc@top5	recipe	weight
mobilenet_v3_small_100	2.55	8	75	224x224	O2	145s	48.14	12463.65	68.10	87.86	yaml	weights
mobilenet_v3_large_100	5.51	8	75	224x224	O2	271s	47.49	12634.24	75.23	92.31	yaml	weights

Notes

• top-1 and top-5: Accuracy reported on the validation set of ImageNet-1K.

References

[1] Howard A, Sandler M, Chu G, et al. Searching for mobilenetv3[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision. 2019: 1314-1324.