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  "id": 406469,
  "title": "👉👉[13𝒕𝒉]𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲👈👈🥈🤟",
  "url": "/competitions/asl-signs/discussion/406469",
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  "post_date": "2023-05-02T13:28:23.459119400Z",
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  "content": "<h2>Data Preprocessing</h2>\n<p>In data preprocessing, we did as followed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>normalization, NaN_filling and Padding</p></li>\n<li><p>Extract the left and right hand from the entire dot, and only consider the relative position between the dots of the hands.</p></li>\n</ul>\n<pre><code>lhand = x[:,(LIP):(LIP)+(LHAND)]\nrhand = x[:,(LIP)+(LHAND):]\nrelative_lhand =norm_xy (lhand.unsqueeze() - lhand.unsqueeze())\nrelative_rhand =norm_xy (rhand.unsqueeze() - rhand.unsqueeze())\n</code></pre>\n<ul>\n<li>Add the relative position changes between frames.(If frame=16, we are computing the relative distances between the current frame and the previous 8 frames and the next 8 frames.)</li>\n</ul>\n<pre><code>relative_back = torch.zeros(x.shape[],x.shape[],n//,)\nrelative_front = torch.zeros(x.shape[],x.shape[],n//,)\n i  (n//):\n    off =x[:,i+:]-x[:,:-i-]\n    relative_back[:,i+:,i] = off\n    relative_front[:,:-i-,i] = -off\nrelative = torch.cat([relative_back,relative_front],-)\nrelative_xy = norm_xy(relative).permute(,,,)\n</code></pre>\n<ul>\n<li>add Original features.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Augmentation</h2>\n<p>We performed the followings in data augmentation:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Random frame dropout.(It seems to be a very common processing method in other sign language recognition studies.)</li>\n</ul>\n<pre><code> self.p&gt;:\n    indices=[]\n     (indices) ==:\n        indices = (torch.rand(sample.shape[]) &gt;=self.fd).nonzero().squeeze()\n    sample = sample[indices]\n sample\n</code></pre>\n<ul>\n<li>Flip (without flipping hands).</li>\n</ul>\n<pre><code>x = x_max - x + x_min\n</code></pre>\n<h2>Model</h2>\n<h3>Model Construction and Hyperparameter</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Model Construction(a typical one):</li>\n</ul>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th></th>\n<th>Layer Name</th>\n<th>Output Shape</th>\n<th>Parameters</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>TransformerEmbedding</td>\n<td>x_embed.fc1</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 135)</td>\n<td>17,408</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc2</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 135)</td>\n<td>17,408</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc3</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 672)</td>\n<td>87,168</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc4</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 672)</td>\n<td>87,168</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc5</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 882)</td>\n<td>113,376</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc6</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 882)</td>\n<td>113,376</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 512)</td>\n<td>442,496</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LayerNorm</td>\n<td>norm</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>1,024</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TransformerBlock</td>\n<td>encoder.attn.fc_q</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>262,656</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.attn.fc_k</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>262,656</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.attn.fc_v</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>262,656</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.attn.fc_o</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>262,656</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.norm1</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>1,024</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.norm2</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>1,024</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Logit</td>\n<td>Linear</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 250)</td>\n<td>12,8250</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<ul>\n<li><p>Learning Rate : $1.0 × 10^{-4}$</p></li>\n<li><p>Dropout Probability : $p = 0.3$ </p></li>\n<li><p>Epoches : $200$</p></li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Train</h3>\n<ul>\n<li><p>We use $AdamW$ optimizer for training.(The best-performing in our experiments)</p></li>\n<li><p>The activation function we used is called $SWISH$, which was proposed by Google.<br>\nThe SWISH activation function is a non-linear function similar to ReLU, but it performs better in some cases than ReLU. This is because it can produce stronger regularization effects.</p></li>\n<li><p>CrossEntropy (with label smoothing which is useful)</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Finally, our single model can achieve 0.77.</strong></p>\n<h2>Ensemble</h2>\n<p>The model ensemble was not so great, so we won't post it here to mislead anyone. We just took a simple average of the class probabilities obtained from each model.</p>\n<h2>Shortcoming</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><p>The differences between models are not significant, which may be the main reason why the fusion did not improve significantly.</p></li>\n<li><p>The fusion method did not work well.</p></li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Thanks</h2>\n<p>Thank <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/hengck23\" target=\"_blank\">🐸</a> very much for providing the code and ideas.</p>",
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      "postDate": "05/02/2023 13:28:23",
      "content": "<h2>Data Preprocessing</h2>\n<p>In data preprocessing, we did as followed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>normalization, NaN_filling and Padding</p></li>\n<li><p>Extract the left and right hand from the entire dot, and only consider the relative position between the dots of the hands.</p></li>\n</ul>\n<pre><code>lhand = x[:,(LIP):(LIP)+(LHAND)]\nrhand = x[:,(LIP)+(LHAND):]\nrelative_lhand =norm_xy (lhand.unsqueeze() - lhand.unsqueeze())\nrelative_rhand =norm_xy (rhand.unsqueeze() - rhand.unsqueeze())\n</code></pre>\n<ul>\n<li>Add the relative position changes between frames.(If frame=16, we are computing the relative distances between the current frame and the previous 8 frames and the next 8 frames.)</li>\n</ul>\n<pre><code>relative_back = torch.zeros(x.shape[],x.shape[],n//,)\nrelative_front = torch.zeros(x.shape[],x.shape[],n//,)\n i  (n//):\n    off =x[:,i+:]-x[:,:-i-]\n    relative_back[:,i+:,i] = off\n    relative_front[:,:-i-,i] = -off\nrelative = torch.cat([relative_back,relative_front],-)\nrelative_xy = norm_xy(relative).permute(,,,)\n</code></pre>\n<ul>\n<li>add Original features.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Augmentation</h2>\n<p>We performed the followings in data augmentation:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Random frame dropout.(It seems to be a very common processing method in other sign language recognition studies.)</li>\n</ul>\n<pre><code> self.p&gt;:\n    indices=[]\n     (indices) ==:\n        indices = (torch.rand(sample.shape[]) &gt;=self.fd).nonzero().squeeze()\n    sample = sample[indices]\n sample\n</code></pre>\n<ul>\n<li>Flip (without flipping hands).</li>\n</ul>\n<pre><code>x = x_max - x + x_min\n</code></pre>\n<h2>Model</h2>\n<h3>Model Construction and Hyperparameter</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Model Construction(a typical one):</li>\n</ul>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th></th>\n<th>Layer Name</th>\n<th>Output Shape</th>\n<th>Parameters</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>TransformerEmbedding</td>\n<td>x_embed.fc1</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 135)</td>\n<td>17,408</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc2</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 135)</td>\n<td>17,408</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc3</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 672)</td>\n<td>87,168</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc4</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 672)</td>\n<td>87,168</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc5</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 882)</td>\n<td>113,376</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc6</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 882)</td>\n<td>113,376</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>x_embed.fc</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 128, 512)</td>\n<td>442,496</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LayerNorm</td>\n<td>norm</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>1,024</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>TransformerBlock</td>\n<td>encoder.attn.fc_q</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>262,656</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.attn.fc_k</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>262,656</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.attn.fc_v</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>262,656</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.attn.fc_o</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>262,656</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.norm1</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>1,024</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td></td>\n<td>encoder.norm2</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 512)</td>\n<td>1,024</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Logit</td>\n<td>Linear</td>\n<td>(batch_size, 250)</td>\n<td>12,8250</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<ul>\n<li><p>Learning Rate : $1.0 × 10^{-4}$</p></li>\n<li><p>Dropout Probability : $p = 0.3$ </p></li>\n<li><p>Epoches : $200$</p></li>\n</ul>\n<h3>Train</h3>\n<ul>\n<li><p>We use $AdamW$ optimizer for training.(The best-performing in our experiments)</p></li>\n<li><p>The activation function we used is called $SWISH$, which was proposed by Google.<br>\nThe SWISH activation function is a non-linear function similar to ReLU, but it performs better in some cases than ReLU. This is because it can produce stronger regularization effects.</p></li>\n<li><p>CrossEntropy (with label smoothing which is useful)</p></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Finally, our single model can achieve 0.77.</strong></p>\n<h2>Ensemble</h2>\n<p>The model ensemble was not so great, so we won't post it here to mislead anyone. We just took a simple average of the class probabilities obtained from each model.</p>\n<h2>Shortcoming</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><p>The differences between models are not significant, which may be the main reason why the fusion did not improve significantly.</p></li>\n<li><p>The fusion method did not work well.</p></li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Thanks</h2>\n<p>Thank <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/hengck23\" target=\"_blank\">🐸</a> very much for providing the code and ideas.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "## Data Preprocessing\nIn data preprocessing, we did as followed:\n\n* normalization, NaN_filling and Padding\n\n\n* Extract the left and right hand from the entire dot, and only consider the relative position between the dots of the hands.\n```python\nlhand = x[:,len(LIP):len(LIP)+len(LHAND)]\nrhand = x[:,len(LIP)+len(LHAND):]\nrelative_lhand =norm_xy (lhand.unsqueeze(1) - lhand.unsqueeze(2))\nrelative_rhand =norm_xy (rhand.unsqueeze(1) - rhand.unsqueeze(2))\n```\n\n* Add the relative position changes between frames.(If frame=16, we are computing the relative distances between the current frame and the previous 8 frames and the next 8 frames.)\n\n```python\nrelative_back = torch.zeros(x.shape[0],x.shape[1],n//2,2)\nrelative_front = torch.zeros(x.shape[0],x.shape[1],n//2,2)\nfor i in range(n//2):\n    off =x[:,i+1:]-x[:,:-i-1]\n    relative_back[:,i+1:,i] = off\n    relative_front[:,:-i-1,i] = -off\nrelative = torch.cat([relative_back,relative_front],-2)#shape (len(LHAND)*2, max_length, n, 2)\nrelative_xy = norm_xy(relative).permute(1,0,2,3)\n```\n\n* add Original features.\n\n## Augmentation\nWe performed the followings in data augmentation:\n\n* Random frame dropout.(It seems to be a very common processing method in other sign language recognition studies.)\n```python\nif self.p>0:\n    indices=[]\n    while len(indices) ==0:\n        indices = (torch.rand(sample.shape[0]) >=self.fd).nonzero().squeeze(1)\n    sample = sample[indices]\nreturn sample\n```\n\n* Flip (without flipping hands).\n```python\nx = x_max - x + x_min\n```\n\n## Model\n### Model Construction and Hyperparameter \n* Model Construction(a typical one):\n\n| | Layer Name | Output Shape | Parameters |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| TransformerEmbedding  | x_embed.fc1 | (batch_size, 128, 135) | 17,408 |\n|   | x_embed.fc2 | (batch_size, 128, 135) | 17,408 |\n|   | x_embed.fc3 | (batch_size, 128, 672) | 87,168 |\n|   | x_embed.fc4 | (batch_size, 128, 672) | 87,168 |\n|   | x_embed.fc5 | (batch_size, 128, 882) | 113,376 |\n|   | x_embed.fc6 | (batch_size, 128, 882) | 113,376 |\n|   | x_embed.fc | (batch_size, 128, 512) | 442,496 |\n| LayerNorm  | norm | (batch_size, 512) | 1,024 |\n| TransformerBlock  | encoder.attn.fc_q | (batch_size, 512) | 262,656 |\n|   | encoder.attn.fc_k | (batch_size, 512) | 262,656 |\n|   | encoder.attn.fc_v | (batch_size, 512) | 262,656 |\n|   | encoder.attn.fc_o | (batch_size, 512) | 262,656 |\n|   | encoder.norm1 | (batch_size, 512) | 1,024 |\n|   | encoder.norm2 | (batch_size, 512) | 1,024 |\n| Logit  | Linear | (batch_size, 250) | 12,8250 |\n\n* Learning Rate : $1.0 × 10^{-4}$\n  \n* Dropout Probability : $p = 0.3$ \n\n* Epoches : $200$\n### Train\n* We use $AdamW$ optimizer for training.(The best-performing in our experiments)\n  \n* The activation function we used is called $SWISH$, which was proposed by Google.\nThe SWISH activation function is a non-linear function similar to ReLU, but it performs better in some cases than ReLU. This is because it can produce stronger regularization effects.\n\n* CrossEntropy (with label smoothing which is useful)\n\n\n**Finally, our single model can achieve 0.77.**\n\n## Ensemble\nThe model ensemble was not so great, so we won't post it here to mislead anyone. We just took a simple average of the class probabilities obtained from each model.\n\n## Shortcoming\n* The differences between models are not significant, which may be the main reason why the fusion did not improve significantly.\n  \n* The fusion method did not work well.\n\n## Thanks\nThank [🐸](https://www.kaggle.com/hengck23) very much for providing the code and ideas.",
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      "postDate": "05/02/2023 15:28:39",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/bugooman\" target=\"_blank\">@bugooman</a> thanks for sharing your approach! 🤝👍 Congrats with the silver!🎉</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "bugooman thanks for sharing your approach! 🤝👍 Congrats with the silver!🎉",
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      "post_date": "05/02/2023 15:28:39",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/bugooman\" target=\"_blank\">@bugooman</a> thanks for sharing your approach! 🤝👍 Congrats with the silver!🎉</p>",
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    "2242732": "## Data Preprocessing\nIn data preprocessing, we did as followed:\n\n* normalization, NaN_filling and Padding\n\n\n* Extract the left and right hand from the entire dot, and only consider the relative position between the dots of the hands.\n```python\nlhand = x[:,len(LIP):len(LIP)+len(LHAND)]\nrhand = x[:,len(LIP)+len(LHAND):]\nrelative_lhand =norm_xy (lhand.unsqueeze(1) - lhand.unsqueeze(2))\nrelative_rhand =norm_xy (rhand.unsqueeze(1) - rhand.unsqueeze(2))\n```\n\n* Add the relative position changes between frames.(If frame=16, we are computing the relative distances between the current frame and the previous 8 frames and the next 8 frames.)\n\n```python\nrelative_back = torch.zeros(x.shape[0],x.shape[1],n//2,2)\nrelative_front = torch.zeros(x.shape[0],x.shape[1],n//2,2)\nfor i in range(n//2):\n    off =x[:,i+1:]-x[:,:-i-1]\n    relative_back[:,i+1:,i] = off\n    relative_front[:,:-i-1,i] = -off\nrelative = torch.cat([relative_back,relative_front],-2)#shape (len(LHAND)*2, max_length, n, 2)\nrelative_xy = norm_xy(relative).permute(1,0,2,3)\n```\n\n* add Original features.\n\n## Augmentation\nWe performed the followings in data augmentation:\n\n* Random frame dropout.(It seems to be a very common processing method in other sign language recognition studies.)\n```python\nif self.p>0:\n    indices=[]\n    while len(indices) ==0:\n        indices = (torch.rand(sample.shape[0]) >=self.fd).nonzero().squeeze(1)\n    sample = sample[indices]\nreturn sample\n```\n\n* Flip (without flipping hands).\n```python\nx = x_max - x + x_min\n```\n\n## Model\n### Model Construction and Hyperparameter \n* Model Construction(a typical one):\n\n| | Layer Name | Output Shape | Parameters |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| TransformerEmbedding  | x_embed.fc1 | (batch_size, 128, 135) | 17,408 |\n|   | x_embed.fc2 | (batch_size, 128, 135) | 17,408 |\n|   | x_embed.fc3 | (batch_size, 128, 672) | 87,168 |\n|   | x_embed.fc4 | (batch_size, 128, 672) | 87,168 |\n|   | x_embed.fc5 | (batch_size, 128, 882) | 113,376 |\n|   | x_embed.fc6 | (batch_size, 128, 882) | 113,376 |\n|   | x_embed.fc | (batch_size, 128, 512) | 442,496 |\n| LayerNorm  | norm | (batch_size, 512) | 1,024 |\n| TransformerBlock  | encoder.attn.fc_q | (batch_size, 512) | 262,656 |\n|   | encoder.attn.fc_k | (batch_size, 512) | 262,656 |\n|   | encoder.attn.fc_v | (batch_size, 512) | 262,656 |\n|   | encoder.attn.fc_o | (batch_size, 512) | 262,656 |\n|   | encoder.norm1 | (batch_size, 512) | 1,024 |\n|   | encoder.norm2 | (batch_size, 512) | 1,024 |\n| Logit  | Linear | (batch_size, 250) | 12,8250 |\n\n* Learning Rate : $1.0 × 10^{-4}$\n  \n* Dropout Probability : $p = 0.3$ \n\n* Epoches : $200$\n### Train\n* We use $AdamW$ optimizer for training.(The best-performing in our experiments)\n  \n* The activation function we used is called $SWISH$, which was proposed by Google.\nThe SWISH activation function is a non-linear function similar to ReLU, but it performs better in some cases than ReLU. This is because it can produce stronger regularization effects.\n\n* CrossEntropy (with label smoothing which is useful)\n\n\n**Finally, our single model can achieve 0.77.**\n\n## Ensemble\nThe model ensemble was not so great, so we won't post it here to mislead anyone. We just took a simple average of the class probabilities obtained from each model.\n\n## Shortcoming\n* The differences between models are not significant, which may be the main reason why the fusion did not improve significantly.\n  \n* The fusion method did not work well.\n\n## Thanks\nThank [🐸](https://www.kaggle.com/hengck23) very much for providing the code and ideas.",
    "2242932": "bugooman thanks for sharing your approach! 🤝👍 Congrats with the silver!🎉"
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