gedml 0.1.3

GeDML is an easy-to-use generalized deep metric learning library, which contains state-of-the-art deep metric learning algorithms and auxiliary modules to build end-to-end compute vision systems

News

• [2021-10-24]: **v0.1.2 has been released:
  • New features:
    • Add distributed (DDP) support.

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• [2021-10-7]: **v0.1.1 has been released:
  • New features:
    • Change the Cars196 loading method.
• [2021-9-15]: **v0.1.0 has been released:
  • New features:
    • output_wrapper and pipeline setting are decomposed for convenience.
    • Pipeline will be stored in the experiment folder using a directed graph.
• [2021-9-13]: **v0.0.1 has been released:
  • New features:
    • config.yaml will be created to store the configuration in the experiment folder.**
• [2021-9-6]: v0.0.0 has been released.

Introduction

GeDML is an easy-to-use generalized deep metric learning library, which contains:

• State-of-the-art DML algorithms: We contrain 18+ losses functions and 6+ sampling strategies, and divide these algorithms into three categories (i.e., collectors, selectors, and losses).
• Bridge bewteen DML and SSL: We attempt to bridge the gap between deep metric learning and self-supervised learning through specially designed modules, such as collectors.
• Auxiliary modules to assist in building: We also encapsulates the upper interface for users to start programs quickly and separates the codes and configs for managing hyper-parameters conveniently.

Installation

Pip

pip install gedml

Quickstart

(Demo of convenient and fast switching between DML and SSL)

• If you use the command line, you can run sample_run.sh to try this project.
• If you debug with VS Code, you can refer to launch.json to set .vscode.

Initialization

Use ParserWithConvert to get parameters

>>> from gedml.launcher.misc import ParserWithConvert
>>> csv_path = ...
>>> parser = ParserWithConvert(csv_path=csv_path, name="...")
>>> opt, convert_dict = parser.render()

Use ConfigHandler to create all objects.

>>> from gedml.launcher.creators import ConfigHandler
>>> link_path = ...
>>> assert_path = ...
>>> param_path = ...
>>> wrapper_path = ...
>>> config_handler = ConfigHandler(
    convert_dict=convert_dict,
    link_path=link_path,
    assert_path=assert_path,
    params_path=param_path,
    wrapper_path=wrapper_path,
    is_confirm_first=True
)
>>> config_handler.get_params_dict()
>>> objects_dict = config_handler.create_all()

Start

Use manager to automatically call trainer and tester.

>>> from gedml.launcher.misc import utils
>>> manager = utils.get_default(objects_dict, "managers")
>>> manager.run()

Or directly use trainer and tester.

>>> from gedml.launcher.misc import utils
>>> trainer = utils.get_default(objects_dict, "trainers")
>>> tester = utils.get_default(objects_dict, "testers")
>>> recorder = utils.get_default(objects_dict, "recorders")
# start to train
>>> utils.func_params_mediator(
    [objects_dict],
    trainer.__call__
)
# start to test
>>> metrics = utils.func_params_mediator(
    [
        {"recorders": recorder},
        objects_dict,
    ],
    tester.__call__
)

Framework

This project is modular in design. The pipeline diagram is as follows:

Code structure

• tests: Debug files.
• examples: Demos.
  • config: Folder which stores links, param, wrapper, args.yaml and assert.yaml.
  • demo.py: A demo python file.
• src/gedml: Main code.
  • core: Losses, selectors, collectors, etc.
  • client: Tmux manager.
  • config: Config files which define the hyper-string etc.
  • launcher: Manager, Trainer, Tester, etc.
  • recorder: Recorder.

Method

Collectors

method	description
BaseCollector	Base class
DefaultCollector	Do nothing
ProxyCollector	Maintain a set of proxies
MoCoCollector	paper: Momentum Contrast for Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning
SimSiamCollector	paper: Exploring Simple Siamese Representation Learning
HDMLCollector	paper: Hardness-Aware Deep Metric Learning
DAMLCollector	paper: Deep Adversarial Metric Learning
DVMLCollector	paper: Deep Variational Metric Learning

Losses

classifier-based

method	description
CrossEntropyLoss	Cross entropy loss for unsupervised methods
LargeMarginSoftmaxLoss	paper: Large-Margin Softmax Loss for Convolutional Neural Networks
ArcFaceLoss	paper: ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition
CosFaceLoss	paper: CosFace: Large Margin Cosine Loss for Deep Face Recognition

pair-based

method	description
ContrastiveLoss	paper: Learning a Similarity Metric Discriminatively, with Application to Face Verification
MarginLoss	paper: Sampling Matters in Deep Embedding Learning
TripletLoss	paper: Learning local feature descriptors with triplets and shallow convolutional neural networks
AngularLoss	paper: Deep Metric Learning with Angular Loss
CircleLoss	paper: Circle Loss: A Unified Perspective of Pair Similarity Optimization
FastAPLoss	paper: Deep Metric Learning to Rank
LiftedStructureLoss	paper: Deep Metric Learning via Lifted Structured Feature Embedding
MultiSimilarityLoss	paper: Multi-Similarity Loss With General Pair Weighting for Deep Metric Learning
NPairLoss	paper: Improved Deep Metric Learning with Multi-class N-pair Loss Objective
SignalToNoiseRatioLoss	paper: Signal-To-Noise Ratio: A Robust Distance Metric for Deep Metric Learning
PosPairLoss	paper: Exploring Simple Siamese Representation Learning

proxy-based

method	description
ProxyLoss	paper: No Fuss Distance Metric Learning Using Proxies
ProxyAnchorLoss	paper: Proxy Anchor Loss for Deep Metric Learning
SoftTripleLoss	paper: SoftTriple Loss: Deep Metric Learning Without Triplet Sampling

Selectors

method	description
BaseSelector	Base class
DefaultSelector	Do nothing
DenseTripletSelector	Select all triples
DensePairSelector	Select all pairs

Document

For more information, please refer to:

:book: :point_right: Docs

Some specific guidances:

• How to write config
• How to define custom module
• ...

Configs

We will continually update the optimal parameters of different configs in TsinghuaCloud

Code Reference

• KevinMusgrave / pytorch-metric-learning
• KevinMusgrave / powerful-benchmarker
• Confusezius / Deep-Metric-Learning-Baselines
• facebookresearch / moco
• PatrickHua / SimSiam
• ujjwaltiwari / Deep_Variational_Metric_Learning
• idstcv / SoftTriple
• wzzheng / HDML
• google-research / simclr
• kunhe / FastAP-metric-learning
• wy1iu / LargeMargin_Softmax_Loss
• tjddus9597 / Proxy-Anchor-CVPR2020
• facebookresearch / deit

TODO:

• assert parameters.
• write github action to automate unit-test, package publish and docs building.
• add cross-validation splits protocol.

Important TODO

• write DML to SSL Demos.
• write complete config (easily run).
• add moco-v2 demo!!!
• distributed tester for matrix-form input.