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This script presents a QAT end-to-end workflow (TF2-to-ONNX) for EfficientNet.

Contents

Requirements • Workflow • Results

Requirements

1. Install base requirements and prepare data. Please refer to examples' README.

2. Clone the models from Tensorflow model garden:

git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/models.git
pushd models && git checkout tags/v2.8.0 && popd
export PYTHONPATH=$PWD/models:$PYTHONPATH
pip install -r models/official/requirements.txt

cd models && git submodule init && git submodule update

3. Download pretrained checkpoints:
   1. B0: https://tfhub.dev/tensorflow/efficientnet/b0/classification/1
   2. B3: https://tfhub.dev/tensorflow/efficientnet/b3/classification/1

Workflow

Step 1: Model Quantization and Fine-tuning

• In run_qat_workflow.py, please set the pretrained_ckpt_path field to the directory of the downloaded checkpoint to start fine-tuning with QAT. All the required hyper-parameters can be set in the HYPERPARAMS dictionary.

  Please run the following to quantize, fine-tune, and save the final graph in SavedModel format.

  shCopy

  python run_qat_workflow.py
  

  Update MODEL_VERSION to the EfficientNet version you wish to quantize.

Step 2: Exporting a QAT SavedModel

Once you've fine-tuned the QAT model, export it by running

python export.py --ckpt <path_to_pretrained_ckpt> --output <saved_model_output_name> --model_version b0

This script applies quantization to the model, restores the checkpoint, and exports it in a SavedModel format. This script will generate eff which is a directory containing saved model. We set the overall graph data format to NCHW by using tf.keras.backend.set_image_data_format('channels_first'). TensorRT expects NCHW format for graphs trained with QAT for better optimizations.

Arguments:

• --ckpt : Path to fine-tuned QAT checkpoint to be loaded.
• --output : Name of output TF saved model.
• --model_version : EfficientNet model version, currently supports {b0, b3}.

Step 3: Conversion to ONNX

Convert the saved model into ONNX by running

python -m tf2onnx.convert --saved-model <path_to_saved_model> --output model_qat.onnx  --opset 13

By default, tf2onnx uses TF's graph optimizers to performs constant folding after a saved model is loaded.

Arguments:

• --saved-model : Name of TF SavedModel
• --output : Name of ONNX output graph
• --opset : ONNX opset version (opset 13 or higher must be used)

Step 4: TensorRT Deployment

Please refer to the examples' README.

Results

This section presents the validation accuracy for the full ImageNet dataset on NVIDIA's A100 GPU and TensorRT 8.4 GA.

EfficientNet-B0

QAT fine-tuning hyper-parameters: bs64, ep10, lr=0.001, steps_per_epoch=None

EfficientNet-B3

QAT fine-tuning hyper-parameters: bs=32, ep20, steps_per_epoch=None, lr=0.0001

Notes

• QAT fine-tuning hyper-parameters:
  • Optimizer: piecewise_sgd, lr_schedule=[(1.0, 1), (0.1, 3), (0.01, 6), (0.001, 9), (0.001, 15)].
  • Other hyper-parameters are under each model's results table.
• PTQ calibration: bs=64
• EfficientNet model quantization:
  • QDQ nodes added in Residual connection (fix added to ResidualQDQCustomCase for Conv-BN-Activation-Dropout pattern),
  • Global Average Pooling,
  • Multiply layer in SE block.