add EsViT, by popular request, an alternative to Dino that is compatible with efficient ViTs with accounting for regional self-supervised loss

Author: lucidrains

README.md

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 - [Parallel ViT](#parallel-vit)
 - [Learnable Memory ViT](#learnable-memory-vit)
 - [Dino](#dino)
+- [EsViT](#esvit)
 - [Accessing Attention](#accessing-attention)
 - [Research Ideas](#research-ideas)
   * [Efficient Attention](#efficient-attention)
@@ -1076,6 +1077,80 @@ for _ in range(100):
 torch.save(model.state_dict(), './pretrained-net.pt')
 ```
 
+## EsViT
+
+<img src="./images/esvit.png" width="350px"></img>
+
+<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09785">`EsViT`</a> is a variant of Dino (from above) re-engineered to support efficient `ViT`s with patch merging / downsampling by taking into an account an extra regional loss between the augmented views. To quote the abstract, it `outperforms its supervised counterpart on 17 out of 18 datasets` at 3 times higher throughput.
+
+Even though it is named as though it were a new `ViT` variant, it actually is just a strategy for training any multistage `ViT` (in the paper, they focused on Swin). The example below will show how to use it with `CvT`. You'll need to set the `hidden_layer` to the name of the layer within your efficient ViT that outputs the non-average pooled visual representations, just before the global pooling and projection to logits.
+
+```python
+import torch
+from vit_pytorch.cvt import CvT
+from vit_pytorch.es_vit import EsViTTrainer
+
+cvt = CvT(
+    num_classes = 1000,
+    s1_emb_dim = 64,
+    s1_emb_kernel = 7,
+    s1_emb_stride = 4,
+    s1_proj_kernel = 3,
+    s1_kv_proj_stride = 2,
+    s1_heads = 1,
+    s1_depth = 1,
+    s1_mlp_mult = 4,
+    s2_emb_dim = 192,
+    s2_emb_kernel = 3,
+    s2_emb_stride = 2,
+    s2_proj_kernel = 3,
+    s2_kv_proj_stride = 2,
+    s2_heads = 3,
+    s2_depth = 2,
+    s2_mlp_mult = 4,
+    s3_emb_dim = 384,
+    s3_emb_kernel = 3,
+    s3_emb_stride = 2,
+    s3_proj_kernel = 3,
+    s3_kv_proj_stride = 2,
+    s3_heads = 4,
+    s3_depth = 10,
+    s3_mlp_mult = 4,
+    dropout = 0.
+)
+
+learner = EsViTTrainer(
+    cvt,
+    image_size = 256,
+    hidden_layer = 'layers',           # hidden layer name or index, from which to extract the embedding
+    projection_hidden_size = 256,      # projector network hidden dimension
+    projection_layers = 4,             # number of layers in projection network
+    num_classes_K = 65336,             # output logits dimensions (referenced as K in paper)
+    student_temp = 0.9,                # student temperature
+    teacher_temp = 0.04,               # teacher temperature, needs to be annealed from 0.04 to 0.07 over 30 epochs
+    local_upper_crop_scale = 0.4,      # upper bound for local crop - 0.4 was recommended in the paper
+    global_lower_crop_scale = 0.5,     # lower bound for global crop - 0.5 was recommended in the paper
+    moving_average_decay = 0.9,        # moving average of encoder - paper showed anywhere from 0.9 to 0.999 was ok
+    center_moving_average_decay = 0.9, # moving average of teacher centers - paper showed anywhere from 0.9 to 0.999 was ok
+)
+
+opt = torch.optim.AdamW(learner.parameters(), lr = 3e-4)
+
+def sample_unlabelled_images():
+    return torch.randn(8, 3, 256, 256)
+
+for _ in range(1000):
+    images = sample_unlabelled_images()
+    loss = learner(images)
+    opt.zero_grad()
+    loss.backward()
+    opt.step()
+    learner.update_moving_average() # update moving average of teacher encoder and teacher centers
+
+# save your improved network
+torch.save(cvt.state_dict(), './pretrained-net.pt')
+```
+
 ## Accessing Attention
 
 If you would like to visualize the attention weights (post-softmax) for your research, just follow the procedure below
@@ -1584,6 +1659,16 @@ Coming from computer vision and new to transformers? Here are some resources tha
 }
 ```
 
+```bibtex
+@article{Li2021EfficientSV,
+    title   = {Efficient Self-supervised Vision Transformers for Representation Learning},
+    author  = {Chunyuan Li and Jianwei Yang and Pengchuan Zhang and Mei Gao and Bin Xiao and Xiyang Dai and Lu Yuan and Jianfeng Gao},
+    journal = {ArXiv},
+    year    = {2021},
+    volume  = {abs/2106.09785}
+}
+```
+
 ```bibtex
 @misc{vaswani2017attention,
     title   = {Attention Is All You Need},

images/esvit.png

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 setup(
   name = 'vit-pytorch',
   packages = find_packages(exclude=['examples']),
-  version = '0.33.2',
+  version = '0.34.1',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'Vision Transformer (ViT) - Pytorch',
   author = 'Phil Wang',

setup.py

@@ -164,12 +164,14 @@ def __init__(
 
             dim = config['emb_dim']
 
-        self.layers = nn.Sequential(
-            *layers,
+        self.layers = nn.Sequential(*layers)
+
+        self.to_logits = nn.Sequential(
             nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d(1),
             Rearrange('... () () -> ...'),
             nn.Linear(dim, num_classes)
         )
 
     def forward(self, x):
-        return self.layers(x)
+        latents = self.layers(x)
+        return self.to_logits(latents)