DenseNet
Densely Connected Convolutional Networks (CVPR 2017 Best Paper Award)
Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we embrace this observation and introduce the Dense Convolutional Network (DenseNet), which connects each layer to every other layer in a feed-forward fashion. Whereas traditional convolutional networks with L layers have L connections—one between each layer and its subsequent layer—our network has L(L+1) / 2 direct connections
Implementations
DenseNet Architecture
Before look at the implementation, lets see what is the architecture of DenseNet
If you already know and have read the paper for ResNet, then you will know what is the residual connection. DenseNet architecture is based on couple of residual blocks which are connected to each other with shotcut connection.
We can take a look at the architecture by layer configurations.
There are a lot of other important details in the paper and you can find it there.
DenseNet implementation in Pytorch Vision
import re
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
import torch.utils.checkpoint as cp
from collections import OrderedDict
from .utils import load_state_dict_from_url
__all__ = ['DenseNet', 'densenet121', 'densenet169', 'densenet201', 'densenet161']
model_urls = {
'densenet121': 'https://download.pytorch.org/models/densenet121-a639ec97.pth',
'densenet169': 'https://download.pytorch.org/models/densenet169-b2777c0a.pth',
'densenet201': 'https://download.pytorch.org/models/densenet201-c1103571.pth',
'densenet161': 'https://download.pytorch.org/models/densenet161-8d451a50.pth',
}
def _bn_function_factory(norm, relu, conv):
def bn_function(*inputs):
concated_features = torch.cat(inputs, 1)
bottleneck_output = conv(relu(norm(concated_features)))
return bottleneck_output
return bn_function
class _DenseLayer(nn.Sequential):
def __init__(self, num_input_features, growth_rate, bn_size, drop_rate, memory_efficient=False):
super(_DenseLayer, self).__init__()
self.add_module('norm1', nn.BatchNorm2d(num_input_features)),
self.add_module('relu1', nn.ReLU(inplace=True)),
self.add_module('conv1', nn.Conv2d(num_input_features, bn_size *
growth_rate, kernel_size=1, stride=1,
bias=False)),
self.add_module('norm2', nn.BatchNorm2d(bn_size * growth_rate)),
self.add_module('relu2', nn.ReLU(inplace=True)),
self.add_module('conv2', nn.Conv2d(bn_size * growth_rate, growth_rate,
kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1,
bias=False)),
self.drop_rate = drop_rate
self.memory_efficient = memory_efficient
def forward(self, *prev_features):
bn_function = _bn_function_factory(self.norm1, self.relu1, self.conv1)
if self.memory_efficient and any(prev_feature.requires_grad for prev_feature in prev_features):
bottleneck_output = cp.checkpoint(bn_function, *prev_features)
else:
bottleneck_output = bn_function(*prev_features)
new_features = self.conv2(self.relu2(self.norm2(bottleneck_output)))
if self.drop_rate > 0:
new_features = F.dropout(new_features, p=self.drop_rate,
training=self.training)
return new_features
class _DenseBlock(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, num_layers, num_input_features, bn_size, growth_rate, drop_rate, memory_efficient=False):
super(_DenseBlock, self).__init__()
for i in range(num_layers):
layer = _DenseLayer(
num_input_features + i * growth_rate,
growth_rate=growth_rate,
bn_size=bn_size,
drop_rate=drop_rate,
memory_efficient=memory_efficient,
)
self.add_module('denselayer%d' % (i + 1), layer)
def forward(self, init_features):
features = [init_features]
for name, layer in self.named_children():
new_features = layer(*features)
features.append(new_features)
return torch.cat(features, 1)
class _Transition(nn.Sequential):
def __init__(self, num_input_features, num_output_features):
super(_Transition, self).__init__()
self.add_module('norm', nn.BatchNorm2d(num_input_features))
self.add_module('relu', nn.ReLU(inplace=True))
self.add_module('conv', nn.Conv2d(num_input_features, num_output_features,
kernel_size=1, stride=1, bias=False))
self.add_module('pool', nn.AvgPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2))
class DenseNet(nn.Module):
r"""Densenet-BC model class, based on
`"Densely Connected Convolutional Networks" <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06993.pdf>`_
Args:
growth_rate (int) - how many filters to add each layer (`k` in paper)
block_config (list of 4 ints) - how many layers in each pooling block
num_init_features (int) - the number of filters to learn in the first convolution layer
bn_size (int) - multiplicative factor for number of bottle neck layers
(i.e. bn_size * k features in the bottleneck layer)
drop_rate (float) - dropout rate after each dense layer
num_classes (int) - number of classification classes
memory_efficient (bool) - If True, uses checkpointing. Much more memory efficient,
but slower. Default: *False*. See `"paper" <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06990.pdf>`_
"""
def __init__(self, growth_rate=32, block_config=(6, 12, 24, 16),
num_init_features=64, bn_size=4, drop_rate=0, num_classes=1000, memory_efficient=False):
super(DenseNet, self).__init__()
# First convolution
self.features = nn.Sequential(OrderedDict([
('conv0', nn.Conv2d(3, num_init_features, kernel_size=7, stride=2,
padding=3, bias=False)),
('norm0', nn.BatchNorm2d(num_init_features)),
('relu0', nn.ReLU(inplace=True)),
('pool0', nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=1)),
]))
# Each denseblock
num_features = num_init_features
for i, num_layers in enumerate(block_config):
block = _DenseBlock(
num_layers=num_layers,
num_input_features=num_features,
bn_size=bn_size,
growth_rate=growth_rate,
drop_rate=drop_rate,
memory_efficient=memory_efficient
)
self.features.add_module('denseblock%d' % (i + 1), block)
num_features = num_features + num_layers * growth_rate
if i != len(block_config) - 1:
trans = _Transition(num_input_features=num_features,
num_output_features=num_features // 2)
self.features.add_module('transition%d' % (i + 1), trans)
num_features = num_features // 2
# Final batch norm
self.features.add_module('norm5', nn.BatchNorm2d(num_features))
# Linear layer
self.classifier = nn.Linear(num_features, num_classes)
# Official init from torch repo.
for m in self.modules():
if isinstance(m, nn.Conv2d):
nn.init.kaiming_normal_(m.weight)
elif isinstance(m, nn.BatchNorm2d):
nn.init.constant_(m.weight, 1)
nn.init.constant_(m.bias, 0)
elif isinstance(m, nn.Linear):
nn.init.constant_(m.bias, 0)
def forward(self, x):
features = self.features(x)
out = F.relu(features, inplace=True)
out = F.adaptive_avg_pool2d(out, (1, 1))
out = torch.flatten(out, 1)
out = self.classifier(out)
return out
Originally sourced from @TorchVision