Was that with pytorch? I’m finding DPN slow. Inception-resnet-2 is looking hopeful. Planning to try Xception next. I’m planning to create a preact-resnet and yolov3 backbone for pytorch to try do - I’ll create a new thread soon for that in case someone else wants to have a go at it.
I’m getting about 12 hours for rn50 on 8*GPU on volta with half precision. I believe pascal is 3x slower. So that sounds like maybe 12 days on a 1080ti. Possibly with 1cycle learning you can make it 5x faster.
No, that’s the full set. You want the competition subset of 1000 categories, which is called ILSVRC2017 (for classification it’s been the same since 2012 AFAIK, so you can also look for ILSVRC2012).