# SparK✨: the first successful BERT-style pre-training on any convolutional networks [![arXiv](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2301.03580-b31b1b.svg)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03580), ICLR'23 Spotlight
Official implementation of "Designing BERT for Convolutional Networks: ** *Spar***se and Hierarchical Mas***k***ed Modeling".
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[[`arXiv` ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03580 )]
[[`pdf` ](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.03580.pdf )]
[[`state-of-the-art self-supervised convnet` ](https://paperswithcode.com/sota/self-supervised-image-classification-on-1?tag_filter=17?p=designing-bert-for-convolutional-networks )]
[[`bibtex` ](https://github.com/keyu-tian/SparK#citation )]
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[[`ReadPaper` ](https://readpaper.com/paper/4710371282714116097 )]
[[`Synced` ](https://syncedreview.com/2023/01/19/bert-style-pretraining-on-convnets-peking-u-bytedance-oxford-us-sparse-masked-modelling-with-hierarchy-leads-the-way/ )]
[[`The Gradient` ](https://thegradientpub.substack.com/p/update-42-ai-news-editors-make-mistakes )]
[[`量子位` ](https://www.qbitai.com/2023/02/42109.html )]
[[`DeepAI` ](https://deepai.org/publication/point-m2ae-multi-scale-masked-autoencoders-for-hierarchical-point-cloud-pre-training )]
[[`Reddit` ](https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ )]
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## News
- We are honored to be invited by Synced ("机器之心机动组 视频号" on WeChat) to give a talk about SparK on **Feb. 27th (UTC+0 11am, UTC+8 7pm)** , welcome!
- Another share on [TechBeat (将门创投) ](https://www.techbeat.net/talk1 ) is scheduled on Mar. 16th (UTC+0 12am, UTC+8 8pm) too!
## Video demo
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## What's new here?
### 🔥 On ResNets, generative pre-training surpasses contrastive learning for the first time:
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### 🔥 ConvNeXt gains more from pre-training than Swin-Transformer, up to +3.5 points:
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### 🔥 Larger models benefit more from SparK pre-training, showing a scaling behavior:
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### 🔥 Pre-trained model can make reasonable predictions:
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#### See our [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.03580.pdf) for more analysis, discussions, and evaluations.
## Catalog
- [x] Pre-training code
- [x] Fine-tuning code
- [ ] Colab visualization playground
- [ ] Weights & visualization playground on `Huggingface`
- [ ] Weights in `timm`
## ImageNet-1k results and pre-trained checkpoint files
| arch. | acc@1 | #params | flops | model |
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| ResNet50 | 80.6 | 26M | 4.1G | [drive ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H8605HbxGvrsu4x4rIoNr-Wkd7JkxFPQ/view?usp=share_link ) |
| ResNet101 | 82.2 | 45M | 7.9G | [drive ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZwTztjU-_rfvOVfLoce9SMw2Fx0DQfoO/view?usp=share_link ) |
| ResNet152 | 82.7 | 60M | 11.6G | [drive ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FOVuECnzQAI-OzE-hnrqW7tVpg8kTziM/view?usp=share_link ) |
| ResNet200 | 83.1 | 65M | 15.1G | [drive ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Q4e30qqhjchrdyW3fT6P98Ga-WnQ57s/view?usp=share_link ) |
| ConvNeXt-S | 84.1 | 50M | 8.7G | [drive ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ah6lgDY5YDNXoXHQHklKKMbEd08RYivN/view?usp=share_link ) |
| ConvNeXt-B | 84.8 | 89M | 15.4G | [drive ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjWbqI1qoBcqeQijI5xX9E-YNkxpJcYV/view?usp=share_link ) |
| ConvNeXt-L | 85.4 | 198M | 34.4G | [drive ](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qfYzGUpYBzuA88_kXkVl4KNUwfutMVfw/view?usp=share_link ) |
## Installation
For pre-training and fine-tuning on ImageNet-1k, we highly recommended you to use `torch==1.10.0` , `torchvision==0.11.1` , and `timm==0.5.4` .
Check [INSTALL.md ](INSTALL.md ) to install all dependencies for pre-training and ImageNet fine-tuning.
## Pre-training
See [PRETRAIN.md ](PRETRAIN.md ) to pre-train models on ImageNet-1k.
## Fine-tuning
- Models on ImageNet: after installation, check [downstream_imagenet ](downstream_imagenet ) for subsequent instructions.
- ResNets on COCO: install `detectron2` and see [downstream_d2 ](downstream_d2 ) for more details.
- ConvNeXts on COCO: install `mmcv` and `mmdetection` then see [downstream_mmdet ](downstream_mmdet ) for more details.
## Acknowledgement
We referred to these useful codebases:
- [BEiT ](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/master/beit )
- [MAE ](https://github.com/facebookresearch/mae )
- [ConvNeXt ](https://github.com/facebookresearch/ConvNeXt )
We also appreciate these elegant frameworks:
- [timm ](https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models )
- [MoCoV2 ](https://github.com/facebookresearch/moco )
- [Detectron2 ](https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2 ) and [MMDetection ](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection )
## License
This project is under the MIT license. See [LICENSE ](LICENSE ) for more details.
## Citation
If you found this project useful, please consider adding a star ⭐, or citing us 📖:
```
@Article {tian2023designing,
author = {Keyu Tian and Yi Jiang and Qishuai Diao and Chen Lin and Liwei Wang and Zehuan Yuan},
title = {Designing BERT for Convolutional Networks: Sparse and Hierarchical Masked Modeling},
journal = {arXiv:2301.03580},
year = {2023},
}
```