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AutoGAN-Distiller: Searching to Compress Generative Adversarial Networks

Yonggan Fu, Wuyang Chen, Haotao Wang, Haoran Li, Yingyan Lin, Zhangyang Wang

Accepted at ICML 2020 [Paper Link].

Overview

We propose AutoGAN-Distiller (AGD) Framework, among the first AutoML frameworks dedicated to GAN compression, and is also among a few earliest works that explore AutoML for GANs.

Method

  • AGD is established on a specifically designed search space of efficient generator building blocks, leveraging knowledge from state-of-the-art GANs for different tasks.
  • It performs differentiable neural architecture search under the target compression ratio (computational resource constraint), which preserves the original GAN generation quality via the guidance of knowledge distillation.
  • We demonstrate AGD on two representative mobile-based GAN applications: unpaired image translation (using a CycleGAN), and super resolution (using an encoder-decoder GAN).

Visualization Results

Unpaired image translation:

unpair-image-translation

Super Resolution:

super-resolution

Datasets

Unpaired Image Translation

horse2zebra, zebra2horse, summer2winter, winter2summer: Unpaired-dataset

Super Resolution

Training (DIV2K+Flickr2K): SR-training-dataset

Evaluation (Set5, Set14, BSD100, Urban100): SR-eval-dataset

Usage

Overview

AGD_ST and AGD_SR are the source codes for unpaired image translation task and super resolution task respectively. The codes for pretrain, search, train from scratch and eval are in the AGD_ST/search and AGD_SR/search directory.

We use AGD_ST/search as an example. All the configurations during pretrain, search, train from scratch, eval are in config_search.py, config_train.py and config_eval.py respectively. Please specify the target dataset C.dataset and change the dataset path C.dataset_path in the three config files to the real paths on your PC.

Prerequisites

See env.yml for the complete conda environment. Create a new conda environment:

conda env create -f env.yml
conda activate pytorch

In partiqular, if the thop package encounters some version conflicts, please specify the thop version:

pip install thop==0.0.31.post1912272122

Step 1: Pretrain the Supernet

  • Switch to the search directory:
cd AGD_ST/search
  • Set C.pretrain = True in config_search.py.

  • Start to pretrain:

python train_search.py

The checkpoints during pretraining are saved at ./ckpt/pretrain.

Step 2: Search

  • Set C.pretrain = 'ckpt/pretrain' in config_search.py.

  • Start to search:

python train_search.py

Step 3: Train the derived network from scratch

  • Set C.load_path = 'ckpt/search' in config_train.py.

  • Start to train from scratch:

python train.py

Step 4: Eval

  • Set C.load_path = 'ckpt/search' and C.ckpt = 'ckpt/finetune/weights.pt' in config_eval.py.
  • Start to evaluate on the testing dataset:
python eval.py

The result images are saved at ./output/eval/.

Two differences in Super Resolution tasks

1st Difference

Please download the checkpoint of original ESRGAN (teacher model) from pretrained ESRGAN and move it to the directory AGD_SR/search/ESRGAN/.

2nd Difference

The step 3 is splitted into two steps, i.e., first pretrain the derived architecture with only content loss and then finetune with perceptual loss:

  • Pretrain: Set C.pretrain = True in config_train.py.

  • Finetune: Set C.pretrain = 'ckpt/finetune_pretrain/weights.pt' in config_train.py.

Pretrained Models

Pretrained models are provided at pretrained AGD.

To evaluate the pretrained models, please copy the network architecture definition and pretrained weights to the corresponding directories:

cp arch.pt ckpt/search/
cp weights.pt ckpt/finetune/

then do the evaluation following step 4.

Our Related Work

Please also check our concurrent work on a unified optimization framework combining model distillation, channel pruning and quantization for GAN compression:

Haotao Wang, Shupeng Gui, Haichuan Yang, Ji Liu, and Zhangyang Wang. "All-in-One GAN Compression by Unified Optimization." ECCV, 2020. (Spotlight) [pdf] [code]

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