Size 14x14 to 16x16 patch interpolation for smaller EVA 2 models

[tobiasvanderwerff]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for the great work you've published. I am trying to train EVA 2 on a custom object detection dataset and noticed that the *_p14to16 pre-trained models are only available for EVA-B and EVA_L (in this table), but not for the other model sizes. I am trying to use the smaller EVA S and/or Ti models instead. As far as I understand, the conversion from p14 to p16 involves a linear interpolation of the pos_embed parameters, as mentioned here. This would mean that it could also be applied as a post-processing step of the checkpoint file for the smaller models.

I have tried to do the interpolation myself, by using the interpolate_patch_14to16.py script. However, this does not seem to work for the EVA 2 checkpoints, because of an error in accessing key values in the checkpoint:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/tobias/EVA/EVA-01/eva/interpolate_patch_14to16.py", line 53, in <module>
    patch_embed = checkpoint["model"]['patch_embed.proj.weight']
KeyError: 'model'

I am not quite sure if applying the script would be the right approach to take or if another approach is necessary. Could you provide any feedback on this? Thanks in advance!

[tobiasvanderwerff]

I think I found a decent solution. The interpolate_patch_14to16.py script can be modified in the following way:

• The p14 checkpoints contain the weights under the module key, not model. I.e. use checkpoint['module'] instead of checkpoint['model'].
• Bicubic interpolation does not work for half float16 precision. As far as I can see, this can be solved by converting to float32 as an intermediary step. I.e.:

        pos_tokens = pos_tokens.float()  # convert to float32 because float16 is not supported for bicubic interpolation
        pos_tokens = torch.nn.functional.interpolate(
            pos_tokens, size=(new_size, new_size), mode='bicubic', align_corners=False)
        pos_tokens = pos_tokens.half()  # convert back to float16

[matteot11]

Hi @tobiasvanderwerff,
I think the same holds for patch_embed:

patch_embed = torch.nn.functional.interpolate(patch_embed.float(), size=(16, 16), mode='bicubic', align_corners=False)

While there is already the .float(), making the interpolate correctly work, the .half()to convert back to float16 is missing. Btw, thanks for the hint!