RepMLPNet: Hierarchical Vision MLP with Re-parameterized Locality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11081v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:28:17 GMT
• Title: RepMLPNet: Hierarchical Vision MLP with Re-parameterized Locality
• Authors: Xiaohan Ding, Honghao Chen, Xiangyu Zhang, Jungong Han, Guiguang Ding
• Abstract summary: We propose a methodology, Locality Injection, to incorporate local priors into an FC layer. RepMLPNet is the first that seamlessly transfer to Cityscapes semantic segmentation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Compared to convolutional layers, fully-connected (FC) layers are better at modeling the long-range dependencies but worse at capturing the local patterns, hence usually less favored for image recognition. In this paper, we propose a methodology, Locality Injection, to incorporate local priors into an FC layer via merging the trained parameters of a parallel conv kernel into the FC kernel. Locality Injection can be viewed as a novel Structural Re-parameterization method since it equivalently converts the structures via transforming the parameters. Based on that, we propose a multi-layer-perceptron (MLP) block named RepMLP Block, which uses three FC layers to extract features, and a novel architecture named RepMLPNet. The hierarchical design distinguishes RepMLPNet from the other concurrently proposed vision MLPs. As it produces feature maps of different levels, it qualifies as a backbone model for downstream tasks like semantic segmentation. Our results reveal that 1) Locality Injection is a general methodology for MLP models; 2) RepMLPNet has favorable accuracy-efficiency trade-off compared to the other MLPs; 3) RepMLPNet is the first MLP that seamlessly transfer to Cityscapes semantic segmentation. The code and models are available at https://github.com/DingXiaoH/RepMLP.

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