# ConvNeXT: image classification with Transformers

This page is the Transformers contract of the ConvNeXT MIC and also a usage example. [doc-builder](https://github.com/huggingface/doc-builder/blob/main/docs/runnable-code-blocks.md) renders the `runnable` blocks below as documentation, and its pytest plugin runs them as written against `facebook/convnext-tiny-224`. The MIC runner runs the same blocks against each slim fixture and each checkpoint in [`integration.json`](../../integration.json). Lines marked `# doc-builder: hide` only matter there: they swap in the pinned checkpoint or variant and print the result record.

## Classify images

```py runnable:classify
import torch
from transformers import AutoImageProcessor, AutoModelForImageClassification, set_seed
import json  # doc-builder: hide
import os  # doc-builder: hide

model_id = "facebook/convnext-tiny-224"
model_id = os.environ.get("MIC_MODEL", model_id)  # doc-builder: hide
variant = json.loads(os.environ.get("MIC_MODEL_KWARGS", "{}"))  # doc-builder: hide
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
set_seed(0)  # seeds torch, NumPy, and Python: loading and dropout draw random numbers

processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained(model_id).to(device)
if variant:  # doc-builder: hide
    del model  # doc-builder: hide
    model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained(model_id, **variant).to(device)  # doc-builder: hide

# Two genuinely different synthetic images: a bright diagonal ramp and a dark
# horizontal ramp. Distinct structure and brightness keep the batch perturbation
# (roll, channel swap, reverse, halve) meaningful for a randomly initialized model.
# Two textured images with different colours: global pooling averages a texture
# away, so random noise alone looks the same to the classifier; colour does not.
tint = torch.tensor([[0.9, 0.2, 0.1], [0.1, 0.3, 0.9]]).view(2, 3, 1, 1)
# uint8 images: the processor rescales by 1/255, which would flatten floats in [0, 1].
images = list(((0.7 * tint + 0.3 * torch.rand(2, 3, 224, 224)).clamp(0, 1) * 255).byte())
inputs = processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
inputs = inputs.to(device, dtype=model.dtype)

model.eval()
with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(**inputs).logits

predicted = logits.argmax(dim=-1)
print([model.config.id2label[i] for i in predicted.tolist()])
```

## One training step

```py runnable:classify:2
labels = torch.tensor([0, 1], device=device)

model.train()
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=0.01)
loss = model(**inputs, labels=labels).loss
loss.backward()
before = {n: p.detach().cpu().clone() for n, p in model.named_parameters() if p.requires_grad}  # doc-builder: hide
optimizer.step()
print(f"loss: {loss.item():.4f}")

if os.environ.get("MIC_RUNNER"):  # doc-builder: hide
    named = dict(model.named_parameters())
    checked = ("convnext.encoder.stages.0.layers.0.pwconv1.weight", "classifier.weight")
    result = {
        "runtime": {
            "device": model.device.type,
            "dtype": str(model.dtype).removeprefix("torch."),
            "attn_implementation": model.config._attn_implementation,
        },
        "predicted_labels": predicted.tolist(),
        "logits": {"probe": logits[:, :5].float().tolist()},
        "training": {
            "loss": loss.item(),
            "gradients": {n: bool(named[n].grad is not None and torch.count_nonzero(named[n].grad) > 0 and torch.isfinite(named[n].grad).all()) for n in checked},
            "updated": any(not torch.equal(p.detach().cpu(), before[n]) for n, p in model.named_parameters() if n in before),
        },
    }
    print(json.dumps(result))
```