Activeloop Hub VS pytorch-image-models

Hey u/platoTheSloth, as u/gopietz mentioned (thanks a lot for the shout-out!!!), you can share them with the general public through uploading to Activeloop Platform (for researchers, we offer special terms, but even as a general public member you get up to 300GBs of free storage!). Thanks to our open source dataset format for AI, Hub, anyone can load the dataset in under 3seconds with one line of code, and stream it while training in PyTorch/TensorFlow.

u/Remote_Cancel_7977 we just launched 100+ computer vision datasets via Activeloop Hub yesterday on r/ML (#1 post for the day!). Note: we do not intend to compete with HuggingFace (we're building the database for AI). Accessing computer vision datasets via Hub is much faster than via HuggingFace though, according to some third-party benchmarks. :)

u/gopietz good question. htype="class_label" will work, but querying doesn't support multi-dimensional labels yet. Would you mind opening an issue requesting that feature?

Hi HN,

In machine learning, we are faced with tensor-based computations (that's the language that ML models think in). I've recently discovered a project that helps you make it much easier to set up and conduct machine learning projects, and enables you to create and store datasets in deep learning-native format.

Hub by Activeloop (https://github.com/activeloopai/Hub) is an open-source Python package that arranges data in Numpy-like arrays. It integrates smoothly with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch for faster GPU processing and training. In addition, one can update the data stored in the cloud, create machine learning pipelines using Hub API and interact with datasets (e.g. visualize) in Activeloop platform (https://app.activeloop.ai). The real benefit for me is that, I can stream my datasets without the need to store them on my machine (my datasets can be up to 10GB+ big, but it works just as well with 100GB+ datasets like ImageNet (https://docs.activeloop.ai/datasets/imagenet-dataset), for instance).

Hub allows us to store images, audio, video data in a way that can be accessed at lightning speed. The data can be stored on GCS/S3 buckets, local storage, or on Activeloop cloud. The data can directly be used in the training TensorFlow/ PyTorch models so that you don't need to set up data pipelines. The package also comes with data version control, dataset search queries, and distributed workloads.

For me, personally the simplicity of the API stands out, for instance:

Loading datasets in seconds

  import hub ds = hub.load("hub://activeloop/cifar10-train")

Hub by Activeloop (https://github.com/activeloopai/Hub) is an open-source Python package that arranges data in Numpy-like arrays. It integrates smoothly with deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow and PyTorch for faster GPU processing and training. In addition, one can update the data stored in the cloud, create machine learning pipelines using Hub API and interact with datasets (e.g. visualize) in Activeloop platform (https://app.activeloop.ai/3)

Consider this

Please take a look at our open-source dataset format https://github.com/activeloopai/hub and a tutorial on htypes https://docs.activeloop.ai/how-hub-works/visualization-and-htype

I'm Davit from Activeloop (activeloop.ai).

Hub.

What solution have you used that you like as a data scientist when working with large datasets? Any standard python API to access the data? Other solution? If anyone has used https://github.com/activeloopai/Hub or other similar API I'd be interested to hear your experience working with it!

I am a PyTorch user I work in CV, I usually use the PyTorch models. However, I see people use timm in research papers to train their models I don't understand what it is timm is it a new framework like PyTorch? Further, when I click https://pypi.org/project/timm/ homepage it takes me to hugging face GitHub https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models is there any connection between timm and hugging face many of my friends use hugging face but I also don't know about hugging face I use simple PyTorch and torchvision.models.

https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models https://huggingface.co/docs/timm/index

pytorch-image-models

additionally, you might find the timm library handy for this sort of work.

This is still being pursued. Ross Wightmann's timm[0,1] package (now on Hugging Face) has done a lot of this. There's also a V2 of ConvNext[2]. Ross does write about this a lot on Twitter fwiw. I should also mention that there are still many transformer based networks that still beat convs. So there probably won't be a resurgence in convs until someone can show that there's a really strong reason for them. They have some advantages but they also might not be flexible enough for the long range tasks in segmentation and detection. But maybe they are.

FAIR definitely did great work with ConvNext, and I do hope to see more. There always needs to be people pushing unpopular paradigms.

[0] https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00476

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00808

I am doing Binary classification with a pre-trained EfficientNet tf_efficientnet_l2. I froze all weights during training and replaced the classifier with a custom trainable one that looks like:

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The other thing is, try to find tricks to speed up your experiments (if not having done so already). The most obvious are mixed precision training, have your model train on a lower resolution input first and then increase the resolution later in the training, stochastic depth, and a bunch more stuffs. Look for implementations in https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models .