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Improving Inception and Image Classification in TensorFlow
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Posted by Alex Alemi, Software Engineer
Earlier this week,
we announced the latest release of the TF-Slim library
for TensorFlow, a lightweight package for defining, training and evaluating models, as well as checkpoints and model definitions for several competitive networks in the field of image classification.
In order to spur even further progress in the field, today we are happy to announce the release of
Inception-ResNet-v2
, a convolutional neural network (CNN) that achieves a new state of the art in terms of accuracy on the
ILSVRC image classification benchmark
. Inception-ResNet-v2 is a variation of our earlier
Inception V3
model which borrows some ideas from Microsoft's ResNet papers
[1]
[2]
. The full details of the model are in our arXiv preprint
Inception-v4, Inception-ResNet and the Impact of Residual Connections on Learning
.
Residual connections allow shortcuts in the model and have allowed researchers to successfully train even deeper neural networks, which have lead to even better performance. This has also enabled significant simplification of the Inception blocks. Just compare the model architectures in the figures below:
Schematic diagram of Inception V3
Schematic diagram of Inception-ResNet-v2
At the top of the second Inception-ResNet-v2 figure, you'll see the full network expanded. Notice that this network is considerably deeper than the previous Inception V3. Below in the main figure is an easier to read version of the same network where the repeated residual blocks have been compressed. Here, notice that the inception blocks have been simplified, containing fewer parallel towers than the previous Inception V3.
The Inception-ResNet-v2 architecture is more accurate than previous state of the art models, as shown in the table below, which reports the Top-1 and Top-5 validation accuracies on the
ILSVRC 2012 image classification benchmark
based on a single crop of the image. Furthermore, this new model only requires roughly twice the memory and computation compared to Inception V3.
Model
Architecture
Checkpoint
Top-1 Accuracy
Top-5 Accuracy
Inception-ResNet-v2
Code
inception_resnet_v2_2016_08_30.tar.gz
80.4
95.3
Inception V3
Code
inception_v3_2016_08_28.tar.gz
78.0
93.9
ResNet 152
Code
resnet_v1_152_2016_08_28.tar.gz
76.8
93.2
ResNet V2 200
Code
TBA
79.9*
95.2*
(*): Results quoted in ResNet paper.
As an example, while both Inception V3 and Inception-ResNet-v2 models excel at identifying individual dog breeds, the new model does noticeably better. For instance, whereas the old model mistakenly reported Alaskan Malamute for the picture on the right, the new Inception-ResNet-v2 model correctly identifies the dog breeds in both images.
An
Alaskan Malamute
(
left
) and a
Siberian Husky
(
right
). Images from Wikipedia
In order to allow people to immediately begin experimenting, we are also releasing a
pre-trained instance
of the new Inception-ResNet-v2, as part of the
TF-Slim Image Model Library
.
We are excited to see what the community does with this improved model, following along as people adapt it and compare its performance on various tasks. Want to get started? See the accompanying
instructions
on how to train, evaluate or fine-tune a network.
As always, releasing the code was a team effort. Specific thanks are due to:
Model Architecture
- Christian Szegedy, Sergey Ioffe, Vincent Vanhoucke, Alex Alemi
Systems Infrastructure
- Jon Shlens, Benoit Steiner, Mark Sandler, and David Andersen
TensorFlow-Slim
- Sergio Guadarrama and Nathan Silberman
Model Visualization
- Fernanda Viégas and James Wexler
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