sayannath / convmixer-tensorflow

Implementation of ConvMixer-Patches Are All You Need? in TensorFlow and Keras

Patches Are All You Need? - ConvMixer

ConvMixer, an extremely simple model that is similar in spirit to the ViT and the even-more-basic MLP-Mixer in that it operates directly on patches as input, separates the mixing of spatial and channel dimensions, and maintains equal size and resolution throughout the network. In contrast, however, the ConvMixer uses only standard convolutions to achieve the mixing steps. Despite its simplicity, we show that the ConvMixer outperforms the ViT, MLP-Mixer, and some of their variants for similar parameter counts and data set sizes, in addition to outperforming classical vision models such as the ResNet.

Official GitHub Link: https://github.com/tmp-iclr/convmixer

Paper Link: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=TVHS5Y4dNvM

Note: Paper is under review for ICLR 2022

Model Architechture

Installation

pip install -q tensorflow-addons

Note: We are using TensorFlow-Addons for using the AdamW optimizer and GeLU activation function.

Results

TensorBoard Link: https://tensorboard.dev/experiment/bkhqOz0RQ1Cv5dwrDQySMQ/

Note: Trained 25 Epochs and got a top-5-accuracy of 64.41%

Future Work

• To train on 150 epochs
• To train model on ImageNet dataset

Citation

@inproceedings{
anonymous2022patches,
title={Patches Are All You Need?},
author={Anonymous},
booktitle={Submitted to The Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations },
year={2022},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=TVHS5Y4dNvM},
note={under review}
}

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Sayan Nath

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