README.md

Active Shift Layer

This repository contains the implementation for Active Shift Layer (ASL).

Please see the paper Constructing Fast Network through Deconstruction of Convolution.

This paper is accepted in NIPS 2018 as spotlight session (slide, poster)

The code is based on Caffe
Tensorflow implementation is also available at ASL-TF

Introduction

Deconstruction

Naive spatial convolution can be deconstructed into a shift layer and a 1x1 convolution.

This figure shows the basic concept of deconstruction.

Active Shift Layer (ASL)

For the efficient shift, we proposed active shift layer.

• Uses depthwise shift
• Introduced new shift parameters for each channel
• New shift parameters(alpha, beta) are learnable

Usage

ASL has 2 parameters : the shift amount (alpha,beta)
Using asl_param, you can control hyper-parameters for ASL. Please see the caffe.proto

This is the example of a usage. Please refer CIFAR10 prototxt for more details.

layer {
  name: "shift0"
  type: "ActiveShift"
  bottom: "conv0"
  top: "shift0"
  param {
    lr_mult: 0.001
    decay_mult: 0.0
  }
  param {
    lr_mult: 0.001
    decay_mult: 0.0
  }
  asl_param {
    normalize: true
  }
}

How to test code

You can validate backpropagation using test code. Because it is not differentiable on lattice points, you should not use integer point position when you are testing code. It is simply possible to define "TEST_ASHIFT_ENV" macro in active_shift_layer.hpp

1. Define "TEST_ASHIFT_ENV" macro in active_shift_layer.hpp
2. > make test
3. > ./build/test/test_active_shift_layer.testbin

You should pass all tests. Before the start, don't forget to undefine TEST_ASHIFT_ENV macro and make again.

Trained Model

You can download trained ImageNet model here.

TODO

• Update Readme
• Upload trained ImageNet model
• Upload CIFAR10 prototxt