By Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun.

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).

0. Introduction
1. Notes
2. Usage

This repository contains re-implemented code for the paper "Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks" (http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05027). This work enables training quality 1k-layer neural networks in a super simple way.

Acknowledgement: This code is re-implemented by Xiang Ming from Xi'an Jiaotong Univeristy for the ease of release.

Seel Also: Re-implementations of ResNet-200 [a] on ImageNet from Facebook AI Research (FAIR): https://github.com/facebook/fb.resnet.torch/tree/master/pretrained

Related papers:

[a]	@article{He2016,
		author = {Kaiming He and Xiangyu Zhang and Shaoqing Ren and Jian Sun},
		title = {Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks},
		journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05027},
		year = {2016}
	}

[b] @article{He2015,
		author = {Kaiming He and Xiangyu Zhang and Shaoqing Ren and Jian Sun},
		title = {Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition},
		journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.03385},
		year = {2015}
	}

0. This code is based on the implementation of Torch ResNets (https://github.com/facebook/fb.resnet.torch).

1. The experiments in the paper were conducted in Caffe, whereas this code is re-implemented in Torch. We observed similar results within reasonable statistical variations.

2. To fit the 1k-layer models into memory without modifying much code, we simply reduced the mini-batch size to 64, noting that results in the paper were obtained with a mini-batch size of 128. Less expectedly, the results with the mini-batch size of 64 are slightly better:

   mini-batch	CIFAR-10 test error (%): (median (mean+/-std))
   128 (as in [a])	4.92 (4.89+/-0.14)
   64 (as in this code)	4.62 (4.69+/-0.20)

3. Curves obtained by running this code with a mini-batch size of 64 (training loss: y-axis on the left; test error: y-axis on the right):

0. Install Torch ResNets (https://github.com/facebook/fb.resnet.torch) following instructions therein.
1. Add the file resnet-pre-act.lua from this repository to ./models.
2. To train ResNet-1001 as of the form in [a]:

th main.lua -netType resnet-pre-act -depth 1001 -batchSize 64 -nGPU 2 -nThreads 4 -dataset cifar10 -nEpochs 200 -shareGradInput false

Note: ``shareGradInput=true'' is not valid for this model yet.