hyzcn / lambda-networks

Implementation of LambdaNetworks, a new approach to image recognition that reaches SOTA with less compute

Lambda Networks - Pytorch

Implementation of λ Networks, a new approach to image recognition that reaches SOTA on ImageNet. The new method utilizes λ layer, which captures interactions by transforming contexts into linear functions, termed lambdas, and applying these linear functions to each input separately.

Yannic Kilcher's paper review

Install

$ pip install lambda-networks

Usage

Global context

import torch
from lambda_networks import LambdaLayer

layer = LambdaLayer(
    dim = 32,       # channels going in
    dim_out = 32,   # channels out
    n = 64 * 64,    # number of input pixels (64 x 64 image)
    dim_k = 16,     # key dimension
    heads = 4,      # number of heads, for multi-query
    dim_u = 1       # 'intra-depth' dimension
)

x = torch.randn(1, 32, 64, 64)
layer(x) # (1, 32, 64, 64)

Localized context

import torch
from lambda_networks import LambdaLayer

layer = LambdaLayer(
    dim = 32,
    dim_out = 32,
    r = 23,         # the receptive field for relative positional encoding (23 x 23)
    dim_k = 16,
    heads = 4,
    dim_u = 4
)

x = torch.randn(1, 32, 64, 64)
layer(x) # (1, 32, 64, 64)

For fun, you can also import this as follows

from lambda_networks import λLayer

Citations

@inproceedings{
    anonymous2021lambdanetworks,
    title={LambdaNetworks: Modeling long-range Interactions without Attention},
    author={Anonymous},
    booktitle={Submitted to International Conference on Learning Representations},
    year={2021},
    url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=xTJEN-ggl1b},
    note={under review}
}