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# Deep Learning Art School
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Send your Pytorch model to art class!
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This repository is both a framework and a set of tools for training deep neural networks that create images. It started
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as a branch of the [open-mmlab](https://github.com/open-mmlab) project developed by [Multimedia Laboratory, CUHK](http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk)
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but has been almost completely re-written at every level.
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## Why do we need another training framework
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These are a dime a dozen, no doubt. DL Art School (*DLAS*) differentiates itself by being configuration driven. You write
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the model code (specifically, a torch.nn.Module) and (possibly) some losses, then you cobble together a config file written
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in yaml that tells DLAS how to train it. Swapping model architectures and tuning hyper-parameters is simple and often
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requires no changes to actual code. You also don't need to remember complex command line incantations. This effectively
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enables you to run multiple concurrent experiments that use the same codebase, as well as retain backwards compatibility
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for past experiments.
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Training effective generators often means juggling multiple loss functions. As a result, DLAS' configuration language is
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specifically designed to make it easy to support large number of losses and networks that interact with each other. As an
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example: some GANs I have trained in this framework consist of more than 15 losses and use 2 separate discriminators and
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require no bespoke code.
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Generators are also notorious GPU memory hogs. I have spent substantial time streamlining the training framework to support
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gradient checkpointing and FP16. DLAS also supports "mega batching", where multiple forward passes contribute to a single
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backward pass. Most models can be trained on midrange GPUs with 8-11GB of memory.
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The final value-added feature is interpretability. Tensorboard logging operates out of the box with no custom code.
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Intermediate images from within the training pipeline can be intermittently surfaced as normal PNG files so you can
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see what your network is up to. Validation passes are also cached as images so you can view how your network improves
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over time.
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## Modeling Capabilities
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DLAS was built with extensibility in mind. One of the reasons I'm putting in the effort to better document this code is the
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incredible ease with which I have been able to train entirely new model types with no changes to the core training code.
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I intend to fill out the sections below with sample configurations which can be used to train different architectures.
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You will need to bring your own data.
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### Super-resolution
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- [GAN-based SR (ESRGAN)](https://github.com/neonbjb/DL-Art-School/tree/gan_lab/recipes/esrgan)
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- [SRFlow](https://github.com/neonbjb/DL-Art-School/tree/gan_lab/recipes/srflow)
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- [GLEAN](https://github.com/neonbjb/DL-Art-School/tree/gan_lab/recipes/glean)
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- Video SR (TecoGAN) (*documentation TBC*)
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### Style Transfer
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* Stylegan2 (*documentation TBC*)
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### Latent development
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* [BYOL](https://github.com/neonbjb/DL-Art-School/tree/gan_lab/recipes/byol)
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* iGPT (*documentation TBC*)
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## Dependencies and Installation
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- Python 3
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- [PyTorch >= 1.6](https://pytorch.org)
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- NVIDIA GPU + [CUDA](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads)
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- Python packages: `pip install -r requirements.txt`
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- Some video utilities require [FFMPEG](https://ffmpeg.org/)
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## User Guide
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TBC
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### Development Environment
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If you aren't already using [Pycharm](https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/) - now is the time to try it out. This project was built in Pycharm and comes with
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an IDEA project for you to get started with. I've done all of my development on this repo in this IDE and lean heavily
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on its incredible debugger. It's free. Try it out. You won't be sorry.
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### Dataset Preparation
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DLAS comes with some Dataset instances that I have created for my own use. Unless you want to use one of the recipes above, you'll need to provide your own. Here is how to add your own Dataset:
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1. Create a Dataset in codes/data/ which takes a single Python dict as a constructor and extracts options from that dict.
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2. Register your Dataset in codes/data/__init__.py
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3. Your Dataset should return a dict of tensors. The keys of the dict are injected directly into the training state, which you can interact within your configuration file.
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### Training and Testing
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There are currently 3 base scripts for interacting with models. They all take a single parameter, `-opt` which specifies the configuration file which controls how they work. Configs (will be) documented above in the user guide.
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#### train.py
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Starts (or continues) a training session.
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`python train.py -opt <your_config.yml>`
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#### test.py
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Runs a model against a validation or test set of data and reports metrics (for now, just PSNR and a custom perceptual metric)
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`python test.py -opt <your_config.yml>`
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#### process_video.py
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Breaks a video into individual frames and uses a network to do processing on it, then reassembles the output back into video form.
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`python process_video -opt <your_config.yml>`
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## Contributing
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At this time I am not taking feature requests or bug reports, but I appreciate all contributions.
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## License
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This project is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
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