MMClassification Release V1.0.0rc3

Highlights

• Add Switch Recipe Hook, Now we can modify training pipeline, mixup and loss settings during training, see #1101.
• Add TIMM and HuggingFace wrappers. Now you can train/use models in TIMM/HuggingFace directly, see #1102.
• Support retrieval tasks, see #1055.
• Reproduce MobileOne training accuracy. See #1191.

New Features

• Add checkpoints from EfficientNets NoisyStudent & L2. (#1122)
• Migrate CSRA head to 1.x. (#1177)
• Support RepLKnet backbone. (#1129)
• Add Switch Recipe Hook. (#1101)
• Add adan optimizer. (#1180)
• Support DaViT. (#1105)
• Support Activation Checkpointing for ConvNeXt. (#1153)
• Add TIMM and HuggingFace wrappers to build classifiers from them directly. (#1102)
• Add reduction for neck (#978)
• Support HorNet Backbone for dev1.x. (#1094)
• Add arcface head. (#926)
• Add Base Retriever and Image2Image Retriever for retrieval tasks. (#1055)
• Support MobileViT backbone. (#1068)

Improvements

• [Enhance] Enhance ArcFaceClsHead. (#1181)
• [Refactor] Refactor to use new fileio API in MMEngine. (#1176)
• [Enhance] Reproduce mobileone training accuracy. (#1191)
• [Enhance] add deleting params info in swinv2. (#1142)
• [Enhance] Add more mobilenetv3 pretrains. (#1154)
• [Enhancement] RepVGG for YOLOX-PAI for dev-1.x. (#1126)
• [Improve] Speed up data preprocessor. (#1064)

Bug Fixes

• Fix the torchserve. (#1143)
• Fix configs due to api refactor of num_classes. (#1184)
• Update mmcls2torchserve. (#1189)
• Fix for inference_model cannot get classes information in checkpoint. (#1093)

Docs Update

• Add not-found page extension. (#1207)
• update visualization doc. (#1160)
• Support sort and search the Model Summary table. (#1100)
• Improve the ResNet model page. (#1118)
• update the readme of convnext. (#1156)
• Fix the installation docs link in README. (#1164)
• Improve ViT and MobileViT model pages. (#1155)
• Improve Swin Doc and Add Tabs enxtation. (#1145)
• Add MMEval projects link in README. (#1162)
• Add runtime configuration docs. (#1128)
• Add custom evaluation docs (#1130)
• Add custom pipeline docs. (#1124)
• Add MMYOLO projects link in MMCLS1.x. (#1117)

Contributors

A total of 14 developers contributed to this release.

@austinmw @Ezra-Yu @nijkah @yingfhu @techmonsterwang @mzr1996 @sanbuphy @tonysy @XingyuXie @gaoyang07 @kitecats @marouaneamz @okotaku @zzc98