Your PyTorch AI Factory

Flash makes complex AI recipes for over 15 tasks across 7 data domains accessible to all.

In a nutshell, Flash is the production grade research framework you always dreamed of but didn’t have time to build.

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Getting Started

From PyPI:

pip install lightning-flash

See our installation guide for more options.

Flash in 3 Steps

Step 1. Load your data

All data loading in Flash is performed via a from_* classmethod on a DataModule.
Which DataModule to use and which from_* methods are available depends on the task you want to perform.
For example, for image segmentation where your data is stored in folders, you would use the from_folders method of the SemanticSegmentationData class:

from flash.image import SemanticSegmentationData

dm = SemanticSegmentationData.from_folders(
    train_folder="data/CameraRGB",
    train_target_folder="data/CameraSeg",
    val_split=0.1,
    image_size=(256, 256),
    num_classes=21,
)

Step 2: Configure your model

Our tasks come loaded with pre-trained backbones and (where applicable) heads.
You can view the available backbones to use with your task using available_backbones.
Once you’ve chosen, create the model:

from flash.image import SemanticSegmentation

print(SemanticSegmentation.available_heads())
# ['deeplabv3', 'deeplabv3plus', 'fpn', ..., 'unetplusplus']

print(SemanticSegmentation.available_backbones('fpn'))
# ['densenet121', ..., 'xception'] # + 113 models

print(SemanticSegmentation.available_pretrained_weights('efficientnet-b0'))
# ['imagenet', 'advprop']

model = SemanticSegmentation(
  head="fpn", backbone='efficientnet-b0', pretrained="advprop", num_classes=dm.num_classes)

Step 3: Finetune!

from flash import Trainer

trainer = Trainer(max_epochs=3)
trainer.finetune(model, datamodule=datamodule, strategy="freeze")
trainer.save_checkpoint("semantic_segmentation_model.pt")

PyTorch Recipes

Make predictions with Flash!

Serve in just 2 lines.

from flash.image import SemanticSegmentation

model = SemanticSegmentation.load_from_checkpoint("semantic_segmentation_model.pt")
model.serve()

or make predictions from raw data directly.

predictions = model.predict(["data/CameraRGB/F61-1.png", "data/CameraRGB/F62-1.png"])

or make predictions with 2 GPUs.

trainer = Trainer(accelerator='ddp', gpus=2)
dm = SemanticSegmentationData.from_folders(predict_folder="data/CameraRGB")
predictions = trainer.predict(model, dm)

Flash Training Strategies

Training strategies are PyTorch SOTA Training Recipes which can be utilized with a given task.

Check out this example where the ImageClassifier supports 4 Meta Learning Algorithms from Learn2Learn.
This is particularly useful if you use this model in production and want to make sure the model adapts quickly to its new environment with minimal labelled data.

model = ImageClassifier(
    backbone="resnet18",
    optimizer=torch.optim.Adam,
    optimizer_kwargs={"lr": 0.001},
    training_strategy="prototypicalnetworks",
    training_strategy_kwargs={
        "epoch_length": 10 * 16,
        "meta_batch_size": 4,
        "num_tasks": 200,
        "test_num_tasks": 2000,
        "ways": datamodule.num_classes,
        "shots": 1,
        "test_ways": 5,
        "test_shots": 1,
        "test_queries": 15,
    },
)

In detail, the following methods are currently implemented:

Flash Optimizers / Schedulers

With Flash, swapping among 40+ optimizers and 15 + schedulers recipes are simple. Find the list of available optimizers, schedulers as follows:

ImageClassifier.available_optimizers()
# ['A2GradExp', ..., 'Yogi']

ImageClassifier.available_schedulers()
# ['CosineAnnealingLR', 'CosineAnnealingWarmRestarts', ..., 'polynomial_decay_schedule_with_warmup']

Once you’ve chosen, create the model:

#### The optimizer of choice can be passed as a
# - String value
model = ImageClassifier(backbone="resnet18", num_classes=2, optimizer="Adam", lr_scheduler=None)

# - Callable
model = ImageClassifier(backbone="resnet18", num_classes=2, optimizer=functools.partial(torch.optim.Adadelta, eps=0.5), lr_scheduler=None)

# - Tuple[string, dict]: (The dict takes in the optimizer kwargs)
model = ImageClassifier(backbone="resnet18", num_classes=2, optimizer=("Adadelta", {"epa": 0.5}), lr_scheduler=None)

#### The scheduler of choice can be passed as a
# - String value
model = ImageClassifier(backbone="resnet18", num_classes=2, optimizer="Adam", lr_scheduler="constant_schedule")

# - Callable
model = ImageClassifier(backbone="resnet18", num_classes=2, optimizer="Adam", lr_scheduler=functools.partial(CyclicLR, step_size_up=1500, mode='exp_range', gamma=0.5))

# - Tuple[string, dict]: (The dict takes in the scheduler kwargs)
model = ImageClassifier(backbone="resnet18", num_classes=2, optimizer="Adam", lr_scheduler=("StepLR", {"step_size": 10]))

You can also register you own custom scheduler recipes beforeahand and use them shown as above:

@ImageClassifier.lr_schedulers
def my_steplr_recipe(optimizer):
    return torch.optim.lr_scheduler.StepLR(optimizer, step_size=10)

model = ImageClassifier(backbone="resnet18", num_classes=2, optimizer="Adam", lr_scheduler="my_steplr_recipe")

Flash Transforms

Flash includes some simple augmentations for each task by default, however, you will often want to override these and control your own augmentation recipe.
To this end, Flash supports custom transformations backed by our powerful data pipeline.
The transform requires to be passed as a dictionary of transforms where the keys are the hook’s name.
This enable transforms to be applied per sample or per batch either on or off device.
It is important to note that data are being processed as a dictionary for all tasks (typically containing input, target, and metadata),
Therefore, you can use ApplyToKeys utility to apply the transform to a specific key.
Complex transforms (like MixUp) can then be implemented with ease.

The example also uses our merge_transforms utility to merge our custom augmentations with the default transforms for images (which handle resizing and converting to a tensor).

import torch
from typing import Any
import numpy as np
import albumentations
from torchvision import transforms as T
from flash.core.data.transforms import ApplyToKeys, merge_transforms
from flash.image import ImageClassificationData
from flash.image.classification.transforms import default_transforms, AlbumentationsAdapter

def mixup(batch, alpha=1.0):
    images = batch["input"]
    targets = batch["target"].float().unsqueeze(1)

    lam = np.random.beta(alpha, alpha)
    perm = torch.randperm(images.size(0))

    batch["input"] = images * lam + images[perm] * (1 - lam)
    batch["target"] = targets * lam + targets[perm] * (1 - lam)
    return batch

train_transform = {
    # applied only on images as ApplyToKeys is used with `input`
    "post_tensor_transform": ApplyToKeys(
        "input", AlbumentationsAdapter(albumentations.HorizontalFlip(p=0.5))),

    # applied to the entire dictionary as `ApplyToKeys` isn't used.
    # this would be applied on GPUS !
    "per_batch_transform_on_device": mixup,

    # this would be applied on CPUS within the DataLoader workers !
    # "per_batch_transform": mixup
}
# merge the default transform for this task with new one.
train_transform = merge_transforms(default_transforms((256, 256)), train_transform)

datamodule = ImageClassificationData.from_folders(
    train_folder = "data/train",
    train_transform=train_transform,
)

Flash Zero – PyTorch Recipes from the Command Line!

Flash Zero is a zero-code machine learning platform built
directly into lightning-flash
using the Lightning CLI.

To get started and view the available tasks, run:

  flash --help

For example, to train an image classifier for 10 epochs with a resnet50 backbone on 2 GPUs using your own data, you can do:

  flash image_classification --trainer.max_epochs 10 --trainer.gpus 2 --model.backbone resnet50 from_folders --train_folder {PATH_TO_DATA}

Kaggle Notebook Examples

Contribute!

The lightning + Flash team is hard at work building more tasks for common deep-learning use cases. But we’re looking for incredible contributors like you to submit new tasks!

Join our Slack and/or read our CONTRIBUTING guidelines to get help becoming a contributor!

Note: Flash is currently being tested on real-world use cases and is in active development. Please open an issue if you find anything that isn’t working as expected.

Community

Flash is maintained by our core contributors.

For help or questions, join our huge community on Slack!

Citations

We’re excited to continue the strong legacy of opensource software and have been inspired over the years by Caffe, Theano, Keras, PyTorch, torchbearer, and fast.ai. When/if additional papers are written about this, we’ll be happy to cite these frameworks and the corresponding authors.

Flash leverages models from many different frameworks in order to cover such a wide range of domains and tasks. The full list of providers can be found in our documentation.

License

Please observe the Apache 2.0 license that is listed in this repository.

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