Pruning/Sparsity Tutorial
📚 This guide explains how to apply pruning to YOLOv5 🚀 models. UPDATED 25 September 2022.
Before You Start
Clone repo and install requirements.txt in a Python>=3.8.0 environment, including PyTorch>=1.8. Models and datasets download automatically from the latest YOLOv5 release.
git clone https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5 # clone
cd yolov5
pip install -r requirements.txt # install
Test Normally
Before pruning we want to establish a baseline performance to compare to. This command tests YOLOv5x on COCO val2017 at image size 640 pixels. yolov5x.pt is the largest and most accurate model available. Other options are yolov5s.pt, yolov5m.pt and yolov5l.pt, or you own checkpoint from training a custom dataset ./weights/best.pt. For details on all available models please see our README table.
Output:
val: data=/content/yolov5/data/coco.yaml, weights=['yolov5x.pt'], batch_size=32, imgsz=640, conf_thres=0.001, iou_thres=0.65, task=val, device=, workers=8, single_cls=False, augment=False, verbose=False, save_txt=False, save_hybrid=False, save_conf=False, save_json=True, project=runs/val, name=exp, exist_ok=False, half=True, dnn=False
YOLOv5 🚀 v6.0-224-g4c40933 torch 1.10.0+cu111 CUDA:0 (Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB, 16160MiB)
Fusing layers...
Model Summary: 444 layers, 86705005 parameters, 0 gradients
val: Scanning '/content/datasets/coco/val2017.cache' images and labels... 4952 found, 48 missing, 0 empty, 0 corrupt: 100% 5000/5000 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
Class Images Labels P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 100% 157/157 [01:12<00:00, 2.16it/s]
all 5000 36335 0.732 0.628 0.683 0.496
Speed: 0.1ms pre-process, 5.2ms inference, 1.7ms NMS per image at shape (32, 3, 640, 640) # <--- base speed
Evaluating pycocotools mAP... saving runs/val/exp2/yolov5x_predictions.json...
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Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.507 # <--- base mAP
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.689
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.75 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.552
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= small | maxDets=100 ] = 0.345
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=medium | maxDets=100 ] = 0.559
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= large | maxDets=100 ] = 0.652
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets= 1 ] = 0.381
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets= 10 ] = 0.630
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.682
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= small | maxDets=100 ] = 0.526
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=medium | maxDets=100 ] = 0.731
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= large | maxDets=100 ] = 0.829
Results saved to runs/val/exp
Test YOLOv5x on COCO (0.30 sparsity)
We repeat the above test with a pruned model by using the torch_utils.prune() command. We update val.py to prune YOLOv5x to 0.3 sparsity:
30% pruned output:
val: data=/content/yolov5/data/coco.yaml, weights=['yolov5x.pt'], batch_size=32, imgsz=640, conf_thres=0.001, iou_thres=0.65, task=val, device=, workers=8, single_cls=False, augment=False, verbose=False, save_txt=False, save_hybrid=False, save_conf=False, save_json=True, project=runs/val, name=exp, exist_ok=False, half=True, dnn=False
YOLOv5 🚀 v6.0-224-g4c40933 torch 1.10.0+cu111 CUDA:0 (Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB, 16160MiB)
Fusing layers...
Model Summary: 444 layers, 86705005 parameters, 0 gradients
Pruning model... 0.3 global sparsity
val: Scanning '/content/datasets/coco/val2017.cache' images and labels... 4952 found, 48 missing, 0 empty, 0 corrupt: 100% 5000/5000 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
Class Images Labels P R mAP@.5 mAP@.5:.95: 100% 157/157 [01:11<00:00, 2.19it/s]
all 5000 36335 0.724 0.614 0.671 0.478
Speed: 0.1ms pre-process, 5.2ms inference, 1.7ms NMS per image at shape (32, 3, 640, 640) # <--- prune mAP
Evaluating pycocotools mAP... saving runs/val/exp3/yolov5x_predictions.json...
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Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.489 # <--- prune mAP
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.677
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.75 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.537
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= small | maxDets=100 ] = 0.334
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=medium | maxDets=100 ] = 0.542
Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= large | maxDets=100 ] = 0.635
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets= 1 ] = 0.370
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets= 10 ] = 0.612
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.664
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= small | maxDets=100 ] = 0.496
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=medium | maxDets=100 ] = 0.722
Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= large | maxDets=100 ] = 0.803
Results saved to runs/val/exp3
In the results we can observe that we have achieved a sparsity of 30% in our model after pruning, which means that 30% of the model's weight parameters in nn.Conv2d layers are equal to 0. Inference time is essentially unchanged, while the model's AP and AR scores a slightly reduced.
Environments
YOLOv5 is designed to be run in the following up-to-date verified environments (with all dependencies including CUDA/CUDNN, Python and PyTorch preinstalled):
- Notebooks with free GPU:
- Google Cloud Deep Learning VM. See GCP Quickstart Guide
- Amazon Deep Learning AMI. See AWS Quickstart Guide
- Docker Image. See Docker Quickstart Guide
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