# 15 minutes to get started with MMEngine
In this tutorial, we'll take training a ResNet-50 model on CIFAR-10 dataset as an example. We will build a complete and configurable pipeline for both training and validation in only 80 lines of code with `MMEgnine`.
The whole process includes the following steps:
1. [Build a Model](#build-a-model)
2. [Build a Dataset and DataLoader](#build-a-dataset-and-dataloader)
3. [Build a Evaluation Metrics](#build-a-evaluation-metrics)
4. [Build a Runner and Run the Task](#build-a-runner-and-run-the-task)
## Build a Model
First, we need to build a **model**. In MMEngine, the model should inherit from `BaseModel`. Aside from parameters representing inputs from the dataset, its `forward` method needs to accept an extra argument called `mode`:
- for training, the value of `mode` is "loss," and the `forward` method should return a `dict` containing the key "loss".
- for validation, the value of `mode` is "predict", and the forward method should return results containing both predictions and labels.
```python
import torch.nn.functional as F
import torchvision
from mmengine.model import BaseModel
class MMResNet50(BaseModel):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.resnet = torchvision.models.resnet50()
def forward(self, imgs, labels, mode):
x = self.resnet(imgs)
if mode == 'loss':
return {'loss': F.cross_entropy(x, labels)}
elif mode == 'predict':
return x, labels
```
## Build a Dataset and DataLoader
Next, we need to create **Dataset** and **DataLoader** for training and validation.
For basic training and validation, we can simply use built-in datasets supported in TorchVision.
```python
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
norm_cfg = dict(mean=[0.491, 0.482, 0.447], std=[0.202, 0.199, 0.201])
train_dataloader = DataLoader(batch_size=32,
shuffle=True,
dataset=torchvision.datasets.CIFAR10(
'data/cifar10',
train=True,
download=True,
transform=transforms.Compose([
transforms.RandomCrop(32, padding=4),
transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
transforms.ToTensor(),
transforms.Normalize(**norm_cfg)
])))
val_dataloader = DataLoader(batch_size=32,
shuffle=False,
dataset=torchvision.datasets.CIFAR10(
'data/cifar10',
train=False,
download=True,
transform=transforms.Compose([
transforms.ToTensor(),
transforms.Normalize(**norm_cfg)
])))
```
## Build a Evaluation Metrics
To validate and test the model, we need to define a **Metric** called accuracy to evaluate the model. This metric needs inherit from `BaseMetric` and implements the `process` and `compute_metrics` methods where the `process` method accepts the output of the dataset and other outputs when `mode="predict"`. The output data at this scenario is a batch of data. After processing this batch of data, we save the information to `self.results` property.
`compute_metrics` accepts a `results` parameter. The input `results` of `compute_metrics` is all the information saved in `process` (In the case of a distributed environment, `results` are the information collected from all `process` in all the processes). Use these information to calculate and return a `dict` that holds the results of the evaluation metrics
```python
from mmengine.evaluator import BaseMetric
class Accuracy(BaseMetric):
def process(self, data_batch, data_samples):
score, gt = data_samples
# save the middle result of a batch to `self.results`
self.results.append({
'batch_size': len(gt),
'correct': (score.argmax(dim=1) == gt).sum().cpu(),
})
def compute_metrics(self, results):
total_correct = sum(item['correct'] for item in results)
total_size = sum(item['batch_size'] for item in results)
# return the dict containing the eval results
# the key is the name of the metric name
return dict(accuracy=100 * total_correct / total_size)
```
## Build a Runner and Run the Task
Now we can build a **Runner** with previously defined `Model`, `DataLoader`, and `Metrics`, and some other configs shown as follows:
```python
from torch.optim import SGD
from mmengine.runner import Runner
runner = Runner(
# the model used for training and validation.
# Needs to meet specific interface requirements
model=MMResNet50(),
# working directory which saves training logs and weight files
work_dir='./work_dir',
# train dataloader needs to meet the PyTorch data loader protocol
train_dataloader=train_dataloader,
# optimize wrapper for optimization with additional features like
# AMP, gradtient accumulation, etc
optim_wrapper=dict(optimizer=dict(type=SGD, lr=0.001, momentum=0.9)),
# trainging coinfs for specifying training epoches, verification intervals, etc
train_cfg=dict(by_epoch=True, max_epochs=5, val_interval=1),
# validation dataloaer also needs to meet the PyTorch data loader protocol
val_dataloader=val_dataloader,
# validation configs for specifying additional parameters required for validation
val_cfg=dict(),
# validation evaluator. The default one is used here
val_evaluator=dict(type=Accuracy),
)
runner.train()
```
Finally, let's put all the codes above together into a complete script that uses the `MMEngine` executor for training and validation:
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```python
import torch.nn.functional as F
import torchvision
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
from torch.optim import SGD
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
from mmengine.evaluator import BaseMetric
from mmengine.model import BaseModel
from mmengine.runner import Runner
class MMResNet50(BaseModel):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.resnet = torchvision.models.resnet50()
def forward(self, imgs, labels, mode):
x = self.resnet(imgs)
if mode == 'loss':
return {'loss': F.cross_entropy(x, labels)}
elif mode == 'predict':
return x, labels
class Accuracy(BaseMetric):
def process(self, data_batch, data_samples):
score, gt = data_samples
self.results.append({
'batch_size': len(gt),
'correct': (score.argmax(dim=1) == gt).sum().cpu(),
})
def compute_metrics(self, results):
total_correct = sum(item['correct'] for item in results)
total_size = sum(item['batch_size'] for item in results)
return dict(accuracy=100 * total_correct / total_size)
norm_cfg = dict(mean=[0.491, 0.482, 0.447], std=[0.202, 0.199, 0.201])
train_dataloader = DataLoader(batch_size=32,
shuffle=True,
dataset=torchvision.datasets.CIFAR10(
'data/cifar10',
train=True,
download=True,
transform=transforms.Compose([
transforms.RandomCrop(32, padding=4),
transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
transforms.ToTensor(),
transforms.Normalize(**norm_cfg)
])))
val_dataloader = DataLoader(batch_size=32,
shuffle=False,
dataset=torchvision.datasets.CIFAR10(
'data/cifar10',
train=False,
download=True,
transform=transforms.Compose([
transforms.ToTensor(),
transforms.Normalize(**norm_cfg)
])))
runner = Runner(
model=MMResNet50(),
work_dir='./work_dir',
train_dataloader=train_dataloader,
optim_wrapper=dict(optimizer=dict(type=SGD, lr=0.001, momentum=0.9)),
train_cfg=dict(by_epoch=True, max_epochs=5, val_interval=1),
val_dataloader=val_dataloader,
val_cfg=dict(),
val_evaluator=dict(type=Accuracy),
)
runner.train()
```
Training log would be similar to this:
```
2022/08/22 15:51:53 - mmengine - INFO -
------------------------------------------------------------
System environment:
sys.platform: linux
Python: 3.8.12 (default, Oct 12 2021, 13:49:34) [GCC 7.5.0]
CUDA available: True
numpy_random_seed: 1513128759
GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
CUDA_HOME: /usr/local/cuda
...
2022/08/22 15:51:54 - mmengine - INFO - Checkpoints will be saved to /home/mazerun/work_dir by HardDiskBackend.
2022/08/22 15:51:56 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(train) [1][10/1563] lr: 1.0000e-03 eta: 0:18:23 time: 0.1414 data_time: 0.0077 memory: 392 loss: 5.3465
2022/08/22 15:51:56 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(train) [1][20/1563] lr: 1.0000e-03 eta: 0:11:29 time: 0.0354 data_time: 0.0077 memory: 392 loss: 2.7734
2022/08/22 15:51:56 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(train) [1][30/1563] lr: 1.0000e-03 eta: 0:09:10 time: 0.0352 data_time: 0.0076 memory: 392 loss: 2.7789
2022/08/22 15:51:57 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(train) [1][40/1563] lr: 1.0000e-03 eta: 0:08:00 time: 0.0353 data_time: 0.0073 memory: 392 loss: 2.5725
2022/08/22 15:51:57 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(train) [1][50/1563] lr: 1.0000e-03 eta: 0:07:17 time: 0.0347 data_time: 0.0073 memory: 392 loss: 2.7382
2022/08/22 15:51:57 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(train) [1][60/1563] lr: 1.0000e-03 eta: 0:06:49 time: 0.0347 data_time: 0.0072 memory: 392 loss: 2.5956
2022/08/22 15:51:58 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(train) [1][70/1563] lr: 1.0000e-03 eta: 0:06:28 time: 0.0348 data_time: 0.0072 memory: 392 loss: 2.7351
...
2022/08/22 15:52:50 - mmengine - INFO - Saving checkpoint at 1 epochs
2022/08/22 15:52:51 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(val) [1][10/313] eta: 0:00:03 time: 0.0122 data_time: 0.0047 memory: 392
2022/08/22 15:52:51 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(val) [1][20/313] eta: 0:00:03 time: 0.0122 data_time: 0.0047 memory: 308
2022/08/22 15:52:51 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(val) [1][30/313] eta: 0:00:03 time: 0.0123 data_time: 0.0047 memory: 308
...
2022/08/22 15:52:54 - mmengine - INFO - Epoch(val) [1][313/313] accuracy: 35.7000
```
In addition to these basic components, you can also use **executor** to easily combine and configure various training techniques, such as enabling mixed-precision training and gradient accumulation (see [OptimWrapper](../tutorials/optim_wrapper.md)), configuring the learning rate decay curve (see [Metrics & Evaluator](../tutorials/evaluation.md)), and etc.