""" Title: Compact Convolutional Transformers Author: [Sayak Paul](https://twitter.com/RisingSayak) Date created: 2021/06/30 Last modified: 2023/08/07 Description: Compact Convolutional Transformers for efficient image classification. Accelerator: GPU Converted to Keras 3 by: [Muhammad Anas Raza](https://anasrz.com), [Guillaume Baquiast](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-baquiast-478965ba/) """ """ As discussed in the [Vision Transformers (ViT)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929) paper, a Transformer-based architecture for vision typically requires a larger dataset than usual, as well as a longer pre-training schedule. [ImageNet-1k](http://imagenet.org/) (which has about a million images) is considered to fall under the medium-sized data regime with respect to ViTs. This is primarily because, unlike CNNs, ViTs (or a typical Transformer-based architecture) do not have well-informed inductive biases (such as convolutions for processing images). This begs the question: can't we combine the benefits of convolution and the benefits of Transformers in a single network architecture? These benefits include parameter-efficiency, and self-attention to process long-range and global dependencies (interactions between different regions in an image). In [Escaping the Big Data Paradigm with Compact Transformers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05704), Hassani et al. present an approach for doing exactly this. They proposed the **Compact Convolutional Transformer** (CCT) architecture. In this example, we will work on an implementation of CCT and we will see how well it performs on the CIFAR-10 dataset. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of self-attention or Transformers, you can read [this chapter](https://livebook.manning.com/book/deep-learning-with-python-second-edition/chapter-11/r-3/312) from François Chollet's book *Deep Learning with Python*. This example uses code snippets from another example, [Image classification with Vision Transformer](https://keras.io/examples/vision/image_classification_with_vision_transformer/). """ """ ## Imports """ from keras import layers import keras import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np """ ## Hyperparameters and constants """ positional_emb = True conv_layers = 2 projection_dim = 128 num_heads = 2 transformer_units = [ projection_dim, projection_dim, ] transformer_layers = 2 stochastic_depth_rate = 0.1 learning_rate = 0.001 weight_decay = 0.0001 batch_size = 128 num_epochs = 30 image_size = 32 """ ## Load CIFAR-10 dataset """ num_classes = 10 input_shape = (32, 32, 3) (x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = keras.datasets.cifar10.load_data() y_train = keras.utils.to_categorical(y_train, num_classes) y_test = keras.utils.to_categorical(y_test, num_classes) print(f"x_train shape: {x_train.shape} - y_train shape: {y_train.shape}") print(f"x_test shape: {x_test.shape} - y_test shape: {y_test.shape}") """ ## The CCT tokenizer The first recipe introduced by the CCT authors is the tokenizer for processing the images. In a standard ViT, images are organized into uniform *non-overlapping* patches. This eliminates the boundary-level information present in between different patches. This is important for a neural network to effectively exploit the locality information. The figure below presents an illustration of how images are organized into patches. ![](https://i.imgur.com/IkBK9oY.png) We already know that convolutions are quite good at exploiting locality information. So, based on this, the authors introduce an all-convolution mini-network to produce image patches. """ class CCTTokenizer(layers.Layer): def __init__( self, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1, pooling_kernel_size=3, pooling_stride=2, num_conv_layers=conv_layers, num_output_channels=[64, 128], positional_emb=positional_emb, **kwargs, ): super().__init__(**kwargs) # This is our tokenizer. self.conv_model = keras.Sequential() for i in range(num_conv_layers): self.conv_model.add( layers.Conv2D( num_output_channels[i], kernel_size, stride, padding="valid", use_bias=False, activation="relu", kernel_initializer="he_normal", ) ) self.conv_model.add(layers.ZeroPadding2D(padding)) self.conv_model.add( layers.MaxPooling2D(pooling_kernel_size, pooling_stride, "same") ) self.positional_emb = positional_emb def call(self, images): outputs = self.conv_model(images) # After passing the images through our mini-network the spatial dimensions # are flattened to form sequences. reshaped = keras.ops.reshape( outputs, ( -1, keras.ops.shape(outputs)[1] * keras.ops.shape(outputs)[2], keras.ops.shape(outputs)[-1], ), ) return reshaped """ Positional embeddings are optional in CCT. If we want to use them, we can use the Layer defined below. """ class PositionEmbedding(keras.layers.Layer): def __init__( self, sequence_length, initializer="glorot_uniform", **kwargs, ): super().__init__(**kwargs) if sequence_length is None: raise ValueError("`sequence_length` must be an Integer, received `None`.") self.sequence_length = int(sequence_length) self.initializer = keras.initializers.get(initializer) def get_config(self): config = super().get_config() config.update( { "sequence_length": self.sequence_length, "initializer": keras.initializers.serialize(self.initializer), } ) return config def build(self, input_shape): feature_size = input_shape[-1] self.position_embeddings = self.add_weight( name="embeddings", shape=[self.sequence_length, feature_size], initializer=self.initializer, trainable=True, ) super().build(input_shape) def call(self, inputs, start_index=0): shape = keras.ops.shape(inputs) feature_length = shape[-1] sequence_length = shape[-2] # trim to match the length of the input sequence, which might be less # than the sequence_length of the layer. position_embeddings = keras.ops.convert_to_tensor(self.position_embeddings) position_embeddings = keras.ops.slice( position_embeddings, (start_index, 0), (sequence_length, feature_length), ) return keras.ops.broadcast_to(position_embeddings, shape) def compute_output_shape(self, input_shape): return input_shape """ ## Sequence Pooling Another recipe introduced in CCT is attention pooling or sequence pooling. In ViT, only the feature map corresponding to the class token is pooled and is then used for the subsequent classification task (or any other downstream task). """ class SequencePooling(layers.Layer): def __init__(self): super().__init__() self.attention = layers.Dense(1) def call(self, x): attention_weights = keras.ops.softmax(self.attention(x), axis=1) attention_weights = keras.ops.transpose(attention_weights, axes=(0, 2, 1)) weighted_representation = keras.ops.matmul(attention_weights, x) return keras.ops.squeeze(weighted_representation, -2) """ ## Stochastic depth for regularization [Stochastic depth](https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09382) is a regularization technique that randomly drops a set of layers. During inference, the layers are kept as they are. It is very much similar to [Dropout](https://jmlr.org/papers/v15/srivastava14a.html) but only that it operates on a block of layers rather than individual nodes present inside a layer. In CCT, stochastic depth is used just before the residual blocks of a Transformers encoder. """ # Referred from: github.com:rwightman/pytorch-image-models. class StochasticDepth(layers.Layer): def __init__(self, drop_prop, **kwargs): super().__init__(**kwargs) self.drop_prob = drop_prop self.seed_generator = keras.random.SeedGenerator(1337) def call(self, x, training=None): if training: keep_prob = 1 - self.drop_prob shape = (keras.ops.shape(x)[0],) + (1,) * (len(x.shape) - 1) random_tensor = keep_prob + keras.random.uniform( shape, 0, 1, seed=self.seed_generator ) random_tensor = keras.ops.floor(random_tensor) return (x / keep_prob) * random_tensor return x """ ## MLP for the Transformers encoder """ def mlp(x, hidden_units, dropout_rate): for units in hidden_units: x = layers.Dense(units, activation=keras.ops.gelu)(x) x = layers.Dropout(dropout_rate)(x) return x """ ## Data augmentation In the [original paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05704), the authors use [AutoAugment](https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09501) to induce stronger regularization. For this example, we will be using the standard geometric augmentations like random cropping and flipping. """ # Note the rescaling layer. These layers have pre-defined inference behavior. data_augmentation = keras.Sequential( [ layers.Rescaling(scale=1.0 / 255), layers.RandomCrop(image_size, image_size), layers.RandomFlip("horizontal"), ], name="data_augmentation", ) """ ## The final CCT model In CCT, outputs from the Transformers encoder are weighted and then passed on to the final task-specific layer (in this example, we do classification). """ def create_cct_model( image_size=image_size, input_shape=input_shape, num_heads=num_heads, projection_dim=projection_dim, transformer_units=transformer_units, ): inputs = layers.Input(input_shape) # Augment data. augmented = data_augmentation(inputs) # Encode patches. cct_tokenizer = CCTTokenizer() encoded_patches = cct_tokenizer(augmented) # Apply positional embedding. if positional_emb: sequence_length = encoded_patches.shape[1] encoded_patches += PositionEmbedding(sequence_length=sequence_length)( encoded_patches ) # Calculate Stochastic Depth probabilities. dpr = [x for x in np.linspace(0, stochastic_depth_rate, transformer_layers)] # Create multiple layers of the Transformer block. for i in range(transformer_layers): # Layer normalization 1. x1 = layers.LayerNormalization(epsilon=1e-5)(encoded_patches) # Create a multi-head attention layer. attention_output = layers.MultiHeadAttention( num_heads=num_heads, key_dim=projection_dim, dropout=0.1 )(x1, x1) # Skip connection 1. attention_output = StochasticDepth(dpr[i])(attention_output) x2 = layers.Add()([attention_output, encoded_patches]) # Layer normalization 2. x3 = layers.LayerNormalization(epsilon=1e-5)(x2) # MLP. x3 = mlp(x3, hidden_units=transformer_units, dropout_rate=0.1) # Skip connection 2. x3 = StochasticDepth(dpr[i])(x3) encoded_patches = layers.Add()([x3, x2]) # Apply sequence pooling. representation = layers.LayerNormalization(epsilon=1e-5)(encoded_patches) weighted_representation = SequencePooling()(representation) # Classify outputs. logits = layers.Dense(num_classes)(weighted_representation) # Create the Keras model. model = keras.Model(inputs=inputs, outputs=logits) return model """ ## Model training and evaluation """ def run_experiment(model): optimizer = keras.optimizers.AdamW(learning_rate=0.001, weight_decay=0.0001) model.compile( optimizer=optimizer, loss=keras.losses.CategoricalCrossentropy( from_logits=True, label_smoothing=0.1 ), metrics=[ keras.metrics.CategoricalAccuracy(name="accuracy"), keras.metrics.TopKCategoricalAccuracy(5, name="top-5-accuracy"), ], ) checkpoint_filepath = "/tmp/checkpoint.weights.h5" checkpoint_callback = keras.callbacks.ModelCheckpoint( checkpoint_filepath, monitor="val_accuracy", save_best_only=True, save_weights_only=True, ) history = model.fit( x=x_train, y=y_train, batch_size=batch_size, epochs=num_epochs, validation_split=0.1, callbacks=[checkpoint_callback], ) model.load_weights(checkpoint_filepath) _, accuracy, top_5_accuracy = model.evaluate(x_test, y_test) print(f"Test accuracy: {round(accuracy * 100, 2)}%") print(f"Test top 5 accuracy: {round(top_5_accuracy * 100, 2)}%") return history cct_model = create_cct_model() history = run_experiment(cct_model) """ Let's now visualize the training progress of the model. """ plt.plot(history.history["loss"], label="train_loss") plt.plot(history.history["val_loss"], label="val_loss") plt.xlabel("Epochs") plt.ylabel("Loss") plt.title("Train and Validation Losses Over Epochs", fontsize=14) plt.legend() plt.grid() plt.show() """ The CCT model we just trained has just **0.4 million** parameters, and it gets us to ~79% top-1 accuracy within 30 epochs. The plot above shows no signs of overfitting as well. This means we can train this network for longer (perhaps with a bit more regularization) and may obtain even better performance. This performance can further be improved by additional recipes like cosine decay learning rate schedule, other data augmentation techniques like [AutoAugment](https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09501), [MixUp](https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09412) or [Cutmix](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.04899). With these modifications, the authors present 95.1% top-1 accuracy on the CIFAR-10 dataset. The authors also present a number of experiments to study how the number of convolution blocks, Transformers layers, etc. affect the final performance of CCTs. For a comparison, a ViT model takes about **4.7 million** parameters and **100 epochs** of training to reach a top-1 accuracy of 78.22% on the CIFAR-10 dataset. You can refer to [this notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/gist/sayakpaul/1a80d9f582b044354a1a26c5cb3d69e5/image_classification_with_vision_transformer.ipynb) to know about the experimental setup. The authors also demonstrate the performance of Compact Convolutional Transformers on NLP tasks and they report competitive results there. """