An evolution of SwitchedResidualGenerator, this variant nests attention
modules upon themselves to extend the representative capacity of the
model significantly.
Got rid of the converged multiplexer bases but kept the configurable architecture. The
new multiplexers look a lot like the old one.
Took some queues from the transformer architecture: translate image to a higher filter-space
and stay there for the duration of the models computation. Also perform convs after each
switch to allow the model to anneal issues that arise.
Found out that batch norm is causing the switches to init really poorly -
not using a significant number of transforms. Might be a great time to
re-consider using the attention norm, but for now just re-enable it.
- Add filters_mid spec which allows a expansion->squeeze for the transformation layers.
- Add scale and bias AFTER the switch
- Remove identity transform (models were converging on this)
- Move attention image generation and temperature setting into new function which gets called every step with a save path
The concept here is to use switching to split the generator into two functions:
interpretation and transformation. Transformation is done at the pixel level by
relatively simple conv layers, while interpretation is computed at various levels
by far more complicated conv stacks. The two are merged using the switching
mechanism.
This architecture is far less computationally intensive that RRDB.
