{
  "id": 153247,
  "title": "Pre-training for Computer Vision ",
  "url": "/competitions/alaska2-image-steganalysis/discussion/153247",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-05-23T20:51:14.228584700Z",
  "votes": 8,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<h1><a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11370.pdf\">Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learning</a></h1>\n\n<p><code>\nTransfer of pre-trained representations improves sample efficiency and simplifies hyperparameter tuning when training deep neural networks for vision. We revisit the paradigm of pre-training on large supervised datasets and fine-tuning the model on a target task. We scale up pre-training, and propose a simple recipe that we call Big Transfer (BiT). By combining a few carefully selected components, and transferring using a simple heuristic, we achieve strong performance on over 20 datasets. BiT performs well across a surprisingly wide range of data regimes -- from 1 example per class to 1M total examples. BiT achieves 87.5% top-1 accuracy on ILSVRC-2012, 99.4% on CIFAR-10, and 76.3% on the 19 task Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark (VTAB). On small datasets, BiT attains 76.8% on ILSVRC-2012 with 10 examples per class, and 97.0% on CIFAR-10 with 10 examples per class. We conduct detailed analysis of the main components that lead to high transfer performance.\n</code></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NkAlO48dW_k/XsWz-8CLuLI/AAAAAAAAF-8/xbPH2061a8IT4ipiRqwP_6Mutmu3M1IjACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/image1.gif\" alt=\"\"></p>\n\n<p>Blog : <a href=\"https://ai.googleblog.com/\">https://ai.googleblog.com/</a>\nCode w/ models: <a href=\"https://github.com/google-research/big_transfer\">https://github.com/google-research/big_transfer</a></p>",
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    {
      "id": "858820",
      "postDate": "05/23/2020 20:51:14",
      "content": "<h1><a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11370.pdf\">Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learning</a></h1>\n\n<p><code>\nTransfer of pre-trained representations improves sample efficiency and simplifies hyperparameter tuning when training deep neural networks for vision. We revisit the paradigm of pre-training on large supervised datasets and fine-tuning the model on a target task. We scale up pre-training, and propose a simple recipe that we call Big Transfer (BiT). By combining a few carefully selected components, and transferring using a simple heuristic, we achieve strong performance on over 20 datasets. BiT performs well across a surprisingly wide range of data regimes -- from 1 example per class to 1M total examples. BiT achieves 87.5% top-1 accuracy on ILSVRC-2012, 99.4% on CIFAR-10, and 76.3% on the 19 task Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark (VTAB). On small datasets, BiT attains 76.8% on ILSVRC-2012 with 10 examples per class, and 97.0% on CIFAR-10 with 10 examples per class. We conduct detailed analysis of the main components that lead to high transfer performance.\n</code></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NkAlO48dW_k/XsWz-8CLuLI/AAAAAAAAF-8/xbPH2061a8IT4ipiRqwP_6Mutmu3M1IjACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/image1.gif\" alt=\"\"></p>\n\n<p>Blog : <a href=\"https://ai.googleblog.com/\">https://ai.googleblog.com/</a>\nCode w/ models: <a href=\"https://github.com/google-research/big_transfer\">https://github.com/google-research/big_transfer</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "# [Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11370.pdf)\n```\nTransfer of pre-trained representations improves sample efficiency and simplifies hyperparameter tuning when training deep neural networks for vision. We revisit the paradigm of pre-training on large supervised datasets and fine-tuning the model on a target task. We scale up pre-training, and propose a simple recipe that we call Big Transfer (BiT). By combining a few carefully selected components, and transferring using a simple heuristic, we achieve strong performance on over 20 datasets. BiT performs well across a surprisingly wide range of data regimes -- from 1 example per class to 1M total examples. BiT achieves 87.5% top-1 accuracy on ILSVRC-2012, 99.4% on CIFAR-10, and 76.3% on the 19 task Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark (VTAB). On small datasets, BiT attains 76.8% on ILSVRC-2012 with 10 examples per class, and 97.0% on CIFAR-10 with 10 examples per class. We conduct detailed analysis of the main components that lead to high transfer performance.\n```\n\n![](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NkAlO48dW_k/XsWz-8CLuLI/AAAAAAAAF-8/xbPH2061a8IT4ipiRqwP_6Mutmu3M1IjACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/image1.gif)\n\nBlog : https://ai.googleblog.com/\nCode w/ models: https://github.com/google-research/big_transfer",
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    {
      "id": "883099",
      "postDate": "06/12/2020 11:17:26",
      "content": "<p>Have you used big_transfer in this competition? If so, can you give the kernel link?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Have you used big_transfer in this competition? If so, can you give the kernel link?",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": 883099,
      "author_name": "tasnimnishatislam",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/12/2020 11:17:26",
      "content": "<p>Have you used big_transfer in this competition? If so, can you give the kernel link?</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    "858820": "# [Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11370.pdf)\n```\nTransfer of pre-trained representations improves sample efficiency and simplifies hyperparameter tuning when training deep neural networks for vision. We revisit the paradigm of pre-training on large supervised datasets and fine-tuning the model on a target task. We scale up pre-training, and propose a simple recipe that we call Big Transfer (BiT). By combining a few carefully selected components, and transferring using a simple heuristic, we achieve strong performance on over 20 datasets. BiT performs well across a surprisingly wide range of data regimes -- from 1 example per class to 1M total examples. BiT achieves 87.5% top-1 accuracy on ILSVRC-2012, 99.4% on CIFAR-10, and 76.3% on the 19 task Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark (VTAB). On small datasets, BiT attains 76.8% on ILSVRC-2012 with 10 examples per class, and 97.0% on CIFAR-10 with 10 examples per class. We conduct detailed analysis of the main components that lead to high transfer performance.\n```\n\n![](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NkAlO48dW_k/XsWz-8CLuLI/AAAAAAAAF-8/xbPH2061a8IT4ipiRqwP_6Mutmu3M1IjACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/image1.gif)\n\nBlog : https://ai.googleblog.com/\nCode w/ models: https://github.com/google-research/big_transfer",
    "883099": "Have you used big_transfer in this competition? If so, can you give the kernel link?"
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