pytorch-image-models/hfdocs/source/models/big-transfer.mdx

# Big Transfer (BiT)

**Big Transfer (BiT)** is a type of pretraining recipe that pre-trains  on a large supervised source dataset, and fine-tunes the weights on the target task. Models are trained on the JFT-300M dataset. The finetuned models contained in this collection are finetuned on ImageNet.

## How do I use this model on an image?

To load a pretrained model:

```py
>>> import timm
>>> model = timm.create_model('resnetv2_101x1_bitm', pretrained=True)
>>> model.eval()
```

To load and preprocess the image:

```py 
>>> import urllib
>>> from PIL import Image
>>> from timm.data import resolve_data_config
>>> from timm.data.transforms_factory import create_transform

>>> config = resolve_data_config({}, model=model)
>>> transform = create_transform(**config)

>>> url, filename = ("https://github.com/pytorch/hub/raw/master/images/dog.jpg", "dog.jpg")
>>> urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename)
>>> img = Image.open(filename).convert('RGB')
>>> tensor = transform(img).unsqueeze(0) # transform and add batch dimension
```

To get the model predictions:

```py
>>> import torch
>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     out = model(tensor)
>>> probabilities = torch.nn.functional.softmax(out[0], dim=0)
>>> print(probabilities.shape)
>>> # prints: torch.Size([1000])
```

To get the top-5 predictions class names:

```py
>>> # Get imagenet class mappings
>>> url, filename = ("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pytorch/hub/master/imagenet_classes.txt", "imagenet_classes.txt")
>>> urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename) 
>>> with open("imagenet_classes.txt", "r") as f:
...     categories = [s.strip() for s in f.readlines()]

>>> # Print top categories per image
>>> top5_prob, top5_catid = torch.topk(probabilities, 5)
>>> for i in range(top5_prob.size(0)):
...     print(categories[top5_catid[i]], top5_prob[i].item())
>>> # prints class names and probabilities like:
>>> # [('Samoyed', 0.6425196528434753), ('Pomeranian', 0.04062102362513542), ('keeshond', 0.03186424449086189), ('white wolf', 0.01739676296710968), ('Eskimo dog', 0.011717947199940681)]
```

Replace the model name with the variant you want to use, e.g. `resnetv2_101x1_bitm`. You can find the IDs in the model summaries at the top of this page.

To extract image features with this model, follow the [timm feature extraction examples](../feature_extraction), just change the name of the model you want to use.

## How do I finetune this model?

You can finetune any of the pre-trained models just by changing the classifier (the last layer).

```py
>>> model = timm.create_model('resnetv2_101x1_bitm', pretrained=True, num_classes=NUM_FINETUNE_CLASSES)
```
To finetune on your own dataset, you have to write a training loop or adapt [timm's training
script](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/blob/master/train.py) to use your dataset.

## How do I train this model?

You can follow the [timm recipe scripts](../training_script) for training a new model afresh.

## Citation

```BibTeX
@misc{kolesnikov2020big,
      title={Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learning}, 
      author={Alexander Kolesnikov and Lucas Beyer and Xiaohua Zhai and Joan Puigcerver and Jessica Yung and Sylvain Gelly and Neil Houlsby},
      year={2020},
      eprint={1912.11370},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
```

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    - ReLU
    - Residual Block
    - Residual Connection
    - Softmax
    - Weight Standardization
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    Training Techniques:
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    - Weight Decay
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    Image Size: '480'
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    Interpolation: bilinear
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    - Residual Connection
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    - Weight Decay
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    Metrics:
      Top 1 Accuracy: 84.38%
      Top 5 Accuracy: 97.37%
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  In Collection: Big Transfer
  Metadata:
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    Parameters: 236340000
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    Architecture:
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    - Bottleneck Residual Block
    - Convolution
    - Global Average Pooling
    - Group Normalization
    - Max Pooling
    - ReLU
    - Residual Block
    - Residual Connection
    - Softmax
    - Weight Standardization
    Tasks:
    - Image Classification
    Training Techniques:
    - Mixup
    - SGD with Momentum
    - Weight Decay
    Training Data:
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    Crop Pct: '1.0'
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  - Task: Image Classification
    Dataset: ImageNet
    Metrics:
      Top 1 Accuracy: 84.4%
      Top 5 Accuracy: 97.43%
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  In Collection: Big Transfer
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    Architecture:
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    - Bottleneck Residual Block
    - Convolution
    - Global Average Pooling
    - Group Normalization
    - Max Pooling
    - ReLU
    - Residual Block
    - Residual Connection
    - Softmax
    - Weight Standardization
    Tasks:
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    Training Techniques:
    - Mixup
    - SGD with Momentum
    - Weight Decay
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    Training Resources: Cloud TPUv3-512
    ID: resnetv2_152x4_bitm
    Crop Pct: '1.0'
    Image Size: '480'
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  Results:
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    Dataset: ImageNet
    Metrics:
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      Top 5 Accuracy: 97.45%
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  In Collection: Big Transfer
  Metadata:
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    Parameters: 25550000
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    Architecture:
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    - Residual Connection
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    - Weight Decay
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  Weights: https://storage.googleapis.com/bit_models/BiT-M-R50x1-ILSVRC2012.npz
  Results:
  - Task: Image Classification
    Dataset: ImageNet
    Metrics:
      Top 1 Accuracy: 80.19%
      Top 5 Accuracy: 95.63%
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  In Collection: Big Transfer
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    Parameters: 217320000
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    - Global Average Pooling
    - Group Normalization
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    - Residual Connection
    - Softmax
    - Weight Standardization
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    - SGD with Momentum
    - Weight Decay
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    Momentum: 0.9
    Batch Size: 4096
    Image Size: '480'
    Weight Decay: 0.0001
    Interpolation: bilinear
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  Weights: https://storage.googleapis.com/bit_models/BiT-M-R50x3-ILSVRC2012.npz
  Results:
  - Task: Image Classification
    Dataset: ImageNet
    Metrics:
      Top 1 Accuracy: 83.75%
      Top 5 Accuracy: 97.12%
-->