Checkpoints of the Ablation study

[chuong98]

Hi, thanks for your amazing work.
I am reading the Tab 6, and I am surprised because the method is so simple and very effective, especially when the Pooling is replaced with Identity Mapping. Top1 74.3 on ImageNet-1k with only Conv1x1 and Norm layer. I am thrilled...
Can you release this checkpoint so that we can verify. Thanks again.

[chuong98]

If the baseline implementation is:

 def forward(self,x):
            x = x + self.drop_path(self.token_mixer(self.norm1(x)))
            x = x + self.drop_path(self.mlp(self.norm2(x)))

Is one of the following implementation correct for the Identity Case ?:
Case A:

  def forward(self,x):
            x = x + self.drop_path(self.norm1(x))
            return x + self.drop_path(self.mlp(self.norm2(x)))

Case B:

  def forward(self,x):
          x = x + self.drop_path(self.norm1(x)-x)
          return  x + self.drop_path(self.mlp(self.norm2(x)))

Case C:

  def forward(self,x):
          return  x + self.drop_path(self.mlp(self.norm2(x)))

[yuweihao]

Hi @chuong98 ,

There is a simple way to implement it. You just need to modify self.token_mixer = Pooling(pool_size=pool_size) to self.token_mixer = nn.Identity().

The checkpoint is shown in:
poolformer_id_s12.pth.tar

[chuong98]

Wonderful! I evaluated the ckpt ang got 74.336.

But when I inspect the speed, the sp_12 is about 3x slower than ResNet 18. I inspect the model, and when I replace the GroupNorm with BatchNorm, the inference time reduces 1/2.
Would you mind release the ckpts of Using BatchNorm/and/or ReLU ? Thank you so much.

[chuong98]

Regarding to using Identity instead of pooling, I can't explain why it works. Because pooling is the only mechanism to learn the spatial information, and connect the neighbors. Now we even drop the pooling. Can you share your thoughts?

[yuweihao]

Hi @chuong98 ,

The checkpoints of BatchNorm or ReLU are in poolformer_bn_s12.pth.tar, poolformer_relu_s12.pth.tar.

The reason why the identity token mixer still works is that sometimes local information is enough to predict. For example, for humans, our faces are largely different from other animals.