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MLP-Mixer

Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the go-to model for computer vision. Recently, attention-based networks, such as the Vision Transformer, have also become popular. In this paper we show that while convolutions and attention are both sufficient for good performance, neither of them are necessary. We present MLP-Mixer, an architecture based exclusively on multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs). MLP-Mixer contains two types of layers: one with MLPs applied independently to image patches (i.e. “mixing” the per-location features), and one with MLPs applied across patches (i.e. “mixing” spatial information). When trained on large datasets, or with modern regularization schemes, MLP-Mixer attains competitive scores on image classification benchmarks, with pre-training and inference cost comparable to state-of-the-art models. We hope that these results spark further research beyond the realms of well established CNNs and Transformers.

How to use it?

from mmpretrain import inference_model

predict = inference_model('mlp-mixer-base-p16_3rdparty_64xb64_in1k', 'demo/bird.JPEG')
print(predict['pred_class'])
print(predict['pred_score'])

Models and results

Image Classification on ImageNet-1k

Model

Pretrain

Params (M)

Flops (G)

Top-1 (%)

Top-5 (%)

Config

Download

mlp-mixer-base-p16_3rdparty_64xb64_in1k*

From scratch

59.88

12.61

76.68

92.25

config

model

mlp-mixer-large-p16_3rdparty_64xb64_in1k*

From scratch

208.20

44.57

72.34

88.02

config

model

Models with * are converted from the timm. The config files of these models are only for inference. We haven’t reproduce the training results.

Citation

@misc{tolstikhin2021mlpmixer,
      title={MLP-Mixer: An all-MLP Architecture for Vision},
      author={Ilya Tolstikhin and Neil Houlsby and Alexander Kolesnikov and Lucas Beyer and Xiaohua Zhai and Thomas Unterthiner and Jessica Yung and Andreas Steiner and Daniel Keysers and Jakob Uszkoreit and Mario Lucic and Alexey Dosovitskiy},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2105.01601},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
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