Fast AutoAugment (Accepted at NeurIPS 2019)

Official Fast AutoAugment implementation in PyTorch.

Fast AutoAugment learns augmentation policies using a more efficient search strategy based on density matching.
Fast AutoAugment speeds up the search time by orders of magnitude while maintaining the comparable performances.

Results

CIFAR-10 / 100

Search : 3.5 GPU Hours (1428x faster than AutoAugment), WResNet-40x2 on Reduced CIFAR-10

Model(CIFAR-10)	Baseline	Cutout	AutoAugment	Fast AutoAugment (transfer/direct)
Wide-ResNet-40-2	5.3	4.1	3.7	3.6 / 3.7	Download
Wide-ResNet-28-10	3.9	3.1	2.6	2.7 / 2.7	Download
Shake-Shake(26 2x32d)	3.6	3.0	2.5	2.7 / 2.5	Download
Shake-Shake(26 2x96d)	2.9	2.6	2.0	2.0 / 2.0	Download
Shake-Shake(26 2x112d)	2.8	2.6	1.9	2.0 / 1.9	Download
PyramidNet+ShakeDrop	2.7	2.3	1.5	1.8 / 1.7	Download

Model(CIFAR-100)	Baseline	Cutout	AutoAugment	Fast AutoAugment (transfer/direct)
Wide-ResNet-40-2	26.0	25.2	20.7	20.7 / 20.6	Download
Wide-ResNet-28-10	18.8	18.4	17.1	17.3 / 17.3	Download
Shake-Shake(26 2x96d)	17.1	16.0	14.3	14.9 / 14.6	Download
PyramidNet+ShakeDrop	14.0	12.2	10.7	11.9 / 11.7	Download

ImageNet

Search : 450 GPU Hours (33x faster than AutoAugment), ResNet-50 on Reduced ImageNet

Model	Baseline	AutoAugment	Fast AutoAugment (Top1/Top5)
ResNet-50	23.7 / 6.9	22.4 / 6.2	22.4 / 6.3	Download
ResNet-200	21.5 / 5.8	20.0 / 5.0	19.4 / 4.7	Download

Notes

We evaluated resnet-50 and resnet-200 with resolution of 224 and 320, respectively. According to the original resnet paper, resnet 200 was tested with the resolution of 320. Also our resnet-200 baseline's performance was similar when we use the resolution.
But with recent our code clean-up and bugfixes, we've found that the baseline performs similar to the baseline even using 224x224.
When we use 224x224, resnet-200 performs 20.0 / 5.2. Download link for the trained model is here.

We have conducted additional experiments with EfficientNet.

Model	Baseline	AutoAugment		Our Baseline(Batch)	+Fast AA
B0	23.2	22.7		22.96	22.68

SVHN Test

Search : 1.5 GPU Hours

	Baseline	AutoAug / Our	Fast AutoAugment
Wide-Resnet28x10	1.5	1.1	1.1

Run

We conducted experiments under

python 3.6.9
pytorch 1.2.0, torchvision 0.4.0, cuda10

Search a augmentation policy

Please read ray's document to construct a proper ray cluster : https://github.com/ray-project/ray, and run search.py with the master's redis address.

$ python search.py -c confs/wresnet40x2_cifar10_b512.yaml --dataroot ... --redis ...

Train a model with found policies

You can train network architectures on CIFAR-10 / 100 and ImageNet with our searched policies.

fa_reduced_cifar10 : reduced CIFAR-10(4k images), WResNet-40x2
fa_reduced_imagenet : reduced ImageNet(50k images, 120 classes), ResNet-50

$ export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD
$ python FastAutoAugment/train.py -c confs/wresnet40x2_cifar10_b512.yaml --aug fa_reduced_cifar10 --dataset cifar10
$ python FastAutoAugment/train.py -c confs/wresnet40x2_cifar10_b512.yaml --aug fa_reduced_cifar10 --dataset cifar100
$ python FastAutoAugment/train.py -c confs/wresnet28x10_cifar10_b512.yaml --aug fa_reduced_cifar10 --dataset cifar10
$ python FastAutoAugment/train.py -c confs/wresnet28x10_cifar10_b512.yaml --aug fa_reduced_cifar10 --dataset cifar100
...
$ python FastAutoAugment/train.py -c confs/resnet50_b512.yaml --aug fa_reduced_imagenet
$ python FastAutoAugment/train.py -c confs/resnet200_b512.yaml --aug fa_reduced_imagenet

By adding --only-eval and --save arguments, you can test trained models without training.

If you want to train with multi-gpu/node, use torch.distributed.launch such as

$ python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node={num_gpu_per_node} --nnodes={num_node} --master_addr={master} --master_port={master_port} --node_rank={0,1,2,...,num_node} FastAutoAugment/train.py -c confs/efficientnet_b4.yaml --aug fa_reduced_imagenet

Citation

If you use this code in your research, please cite our paper.

@inproceedings{lim2019fast,
  title={Fast AutoAugment},
  author={Lim, Sungbin and Kim, Ildoo and Kim, Taesup and Kim, Chiheon and Kim, Sungwoong},
  booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year={2019}
}

Contact for Issues

Ildoo Kim, ildoo.kim@kakaobrain.com

References & Opensources

We increase the batch size and adapt the learning rate accordingly to boost the training. Otherwise, we set other hyperparameters equal to AutoAugment if possible. For the unknown hyperparameters, we follow values from the original references or we tune them to match baseline performances.

ResNet : paper1, paper2, code
PyramidNet : paper, code
Wide-ResNet : code
Shake-Shake : code
ShakeDrop Regularization : paper, code
AutoAugment : code
Ray : code
HyperOpt : code