Layer Groups

Part 1 (2018)
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Hi,

What is the logic behind splitting a model into layer groups?

In the old version of fastai there was this piece of code:

model_meta = {
resnet34:[8,6] … vgg16:[0,22]

Why resnet is cut (for lr purposes) at 6th layer and vgg16 at 22nd?

For example full vgg16 model (after replacing fc layer) looks like this:

(0): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(3, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(1): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(2): ReLU(inplace)
(3): Conv2d(64, 64, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(4): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(5): ReLU(inplace)
(6): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
(7): Conv2d(64, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(8): BatchNorm2d(128, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(9): ReLU(inplace)
(10): Conv2d(128, 128, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(11): BatchNorm2d(128, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(12): ReLU(inplace)
(13): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
(14): Conv2d(128, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(15): BatchNorm2d(256, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(16): ReLU(inplace)
(17): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(18): BatchNorm2d(256, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(19): ReLU(inplace)
(20): Conv2d(256, 256, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(21): BatchNorm2d(256, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(22): ReLU(inplace)
(23): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
(24): Conv2d(256, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(25): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(26): ReLU(inplace)
(27): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(28): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(29): ReLU(inplace)
(30): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(31): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(32): ReLU(inplace)
(33): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
(34): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(35): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(36): ReLU(inplace)
(37): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(38): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(39): ReLU(inplace)
(40): Conv2d(512, 512, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), padding=(1, 1))
(41): BatchNorm2d(512, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
(42): ReLU(inplace)
(43): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, padding=0, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
)

Why 22nd position is special, why not 12th or 32nd? What is the intuition / logic behind this?

If this is something that was discussed in lessons, please refer me to the lesson (I really worked hard to find this, and did not manage to)

Thank you

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Guess there are several good answers:

  1. all models from pytorch are groupped på nn.sequential (https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html?highlight=nn%20sequential#torch.nn.Sequential). This grouping corresponds well to the buildblocks you see in papers.

  2. fastai splits models into a header and a body in the process of replacing the header so that i matches number of output classes. birds cars, dogs etc. model_meta in the new version of fastai looks like setting of where to cut/split in order to remove the head - and replace it with a fully connected layer that match the number of classes