Adding auto-augment and random-erase in the training scripts.

references/classification/train.py

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def _get_cache_path(filepath):
     return cache_path
 
 
-def load_data(traindir, valdir, cache_dataset, distributed):
+def load_data(traindir, valdir, args):
     # Data loading code
     print("Loading data")
     normalize = transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
@@ -88,28 +88,36 @@ def load_data(traindir, valdir, cache_dataset, distributed):
     print("Loading training data")
     st = time.time()
     cache_path = _get_cache_path(traindir)
-    if cache_dataset and os.path.exists(cache_path):
+    if args.cache_dataset and os.path.exists(cache_path):
         # Attention, as the transforms are also cached!
         print("Loading dataset_train from {}".format(cache_path))
         dataset, _ = torch.load(cache_path)
     else:
+        trans = [
+            transforms.RandomResizedCrop(224),
+            transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
+        ]
+        if args.auto_augment is not None:
+            aa_policy = transforms.AutoAugmentPolicy(args.auto_augment)
+            trans.append(transforms.AutoAugment(policy=aa_policy))
+        trans.extend([
+            transforms.ToTensor(),
+            normalize,
+        ])
+        if args.random_erase > 0:
+            trans.append(transforms.RandomErasing(p=args.random_erase))
         dataset = torchvision.datasets.ImageFolder(
             traindir,
-            transforms.Compose([
-                transforms.RandomResizedCrop(224),
-                transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
-                transforms.ToTensor(),
-                normalize,
-            ]))
-        if cache_dataset:
+            transforms.Compose(trans))
+        if args.cache_dataset:
             print("Saving dataset_train to {}".format(cache_path))
             utils.mkdir(os.path.dirname(cache_path))
             utils.save_on_master((dataset, traindir), cache_path)
     print("Took", time.time() - st)
 
     print("Loading validation data")
     cache_path = _get_cache_path(valdir)
-    if cache_dataset and os.path.exists(cache_path):
+    if args.cache_dataset and os.path.exists(cache_path):
         # Attention, as the transforms are also cached!
         print("Loading dataset_test from {}".format(cache_path))
         dataset_test, _ = torch.load(cache_path)
@@ -122,13 +130,13 @@ def load_data(traindir, valdir, cache_dataset, distributed):
                 transforms.ToTensor(),
                 normalize,
             ]))
-        if cache_dataset:
+        if args.cache_dataset:
             print("Saving dataset_test to {}".format(cache_path))
             utils.mkdir(os.path.dirname(cache_path))
             utils.save_on_master((dataset_test, valdir), cache_path)
 
     print("Creating data loaders")
-    if distributed:
+    if args.distributed:
         train_sampler = torch.utils.data.distributed.DistributedSampler(dataset)
         test_sampler = torch.utils.data.distributed.DistributedSampler(dataset_test)
     else:
@@ -155,8 +163,7 @@ def main(args):
 
     train_dir = os.path.join(args.data_path, 'train')
     val_dir = os.path.join(args.data_path, 'val')
-    dataset, dataset_test, train_sampler, test_sampler = load_data(train_dir, val_dir,
-                                                                   args.cache_dataset, args.distributed)
+    dataset, dataset_test, train_sampler, test_sampler = load_data(train_dir, val_dir, args)
     data_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
         dataset, batch_size=args.batch_size,
         sampler=train_sampler, num_workers=args.workers, pin_memory=True)
@@ -283,6 +290,8 @@ def parse_args():
         help="Use pre-trained models from the modelzoo",
         action="store_true",
     )
+    parser.add_argument('--auto-augment', default=None, help='auto augment policy (default: None)')
+    parser.add_argument('--random-erase', default=0.0, type=float, help='random erasing probability (default: 0.0)')
 
     # Mixed precision training parameters
     parser.add_argument('--apex', action='store_true',