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# ConvNeXT

## Overview

The ConvNeXT model was proposed in [A ConvNet for the 2020s](https://huggingface.co/papers/2201.03545) by Zhuang Liu, Hanzi Mao, Chao-Yuan Wu, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Trevor Darrell, Saining Xie.
ConvNeXT is a pure convolutional model (ConvNet), inspired by the design of Vision Transformers, that claims to outperform them.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*The "Roaring 20s" of visual recognition began with the introduction of Vision Transformers (ViTs), which quickly superseded ConvNets as the state-of-the-art image classification model.
A vanilla ViT, on the other hand, faces difficulties when applied to general computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. It is the hierarchical Transformers
(e.g., Swin Transformers) that reintroduced several ConvNet priors, making Transformers practically viable as a generic vision backbone and demonstrating remarkable performance on a wide
variety of vision tasks. However, the effectiveness of such hybrid approaches is still largely credited to the intrinsic superiority of Transformers, rather than the inherent inductive
biases of convolutions. In this work, we reexamine the design spaces and test the limits of what a pure ConvNet can achieve. We gradually "modernize" a standard ResNet toward the design
of a vision Transformer, and discover several key components that contribute to the performance difference along the way. The outcome of this exploration is a family of pure ConvNet models
dubbed ConvNeXt. Constructed entirely from standard ConvNet modules, ConvNeXts compete favorably with Transformers in terms of accuracy and scalability, achieving 87.8% ImageNet top-1 accuracy
and outperforming Swin Transformers on COCO detection and ADE20K segmentation, while maintaining the simplicity and efficiency of standard ConvNets.*

 ConvNeXT architecture. Taken from the original paper.

This model was contributed by [nielsr](https://huggingface.co/nielsr). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/facebookresearch/ConvNeXt).

## Resources

A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with ConvNeXT.

- [ConvNextForImageClassification](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/model_doc/convnext#transformers.ConvNextForImageClassification) is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/pytorch/image-classification) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/image_classification.ipynb).
- See also: [Image classification task guide](../tasks/image_classification)

If you're interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we'll review it! The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource.

## ConvNextConfig[[transformers.ConvNextConfig]]

#### transformers.ConvNextConfig[[transformers.ConvNextConfig]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.0.0/src/transformers/models/convnext/configuration_convnext.py#L24)

This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a [ConvNextModel](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/model_doc/convnext#transformers.ConvNextModel). It is used to instantiate an
ConvNeXT model according to the specified arguments, defining the model architecture. Instantiating a configuration
with the defaults will yield a similar configuration to that of the ConvNeXT
[facebook/convnext-tiny-224](https://huggingface.co/facebook/convnext-tiny-224) architecture.

Configuration objects inherit from [PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig) and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the
documentation from [PreTrainedConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/main_classes/configuration#transformers.PreTrainedConfig) for more information.

Example:
```python
>>> from transformers import ConvNextConfig, ConvNextModel

>>> # Initializing a ConvNext convnext-tiny-224 style configuration
>>> configuration = ConvNextConfig()

>>> # Initializing a model (with random weights) from the convnext-tiny-224 style configuration
>>> model = ConvNextModel(configuration)

>>> # Accessing the model configuration
>>> configuration = model.config
```

**Parameters:**

num_channels (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 3) : The number of input channels.

patch_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 4) : Patch size to use in the patch embedding layer.

num_stages (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 4) : The number of stages in the model.

hidden_sizes (`list[int]`, *optional*, defaults to [96, 192, 384, 768]) : Dimensionality (hidden size) at each stage.

depths (`list[int]`, *optional*, defaults to [3, 3, 9, 3]) : Depth (number of blocks) for each stage.

hidden_act (`str` or `function`, *optional*, defaults to `"gelu"`) : The non-linear activation function (function or string) in each block. If string, `"gelu"`, `"relu"`, `"selu"` and `"gelu_new"` are supported.

initializer_range (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 0.02) : The standard deviation of the truncated_normal_initializer for initializing all weight matrices.

layer_norm_eps (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 1e-12) : The epsilon used by the layer normalization layers.

layer_scale_init_value (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 1e-6) : The initial value for the layer scale.

drop_path_rate (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 0.0) : The drop rate for stochastic depth.

out_features (`list[str]`, *optional*) : If used as backbone, list of features to output. Can be any of `"stem"`, `"stage1"`, `"stage2"`, etc. (depending on how many stages the model has). If unset and `out_indices` is set, will default to the corresponding stages. If unset and `out_indices` is unset, will default to the last stage. Must be in the same order as defined in the `stage_names` attribute.

out_indices (`list[int]`, *optional*) : If used as backbone, list of indices of features to output. Can be any of 0, 1, 2, etc. (depending on how many stages the model has). If unset and `out_features` is set, will default to the corresponding stages. If unset and `out_features` is unset, will default to the last stage. Must be in the same order as defined in the `stage_names` attribute.

## ConvNextImageProcessor[[transformers.ConvNextImageProcessor]]

#### transformers.ConvNextImageProcessor[[transformers.ConvNextImageProcessor]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.0.0/src/transformers/models/convnext/image_processing_convnext.py#L61)

Constructs a ConvNeXT image processor.

preprocesstransformers.ConvNextImageProcessor.preprocesshttps://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.0.0/src/transformers/models/convnext/image_processing_convnext.py#L197[{"name": "images", "val": ": typing.Union[ForwardRef('PIL.Image.Image'), numpy.ndarray, ForwardRef('torch.Tensor'), list['PIL.Image.Image'], list[numpy.ndarray], list['torch.Tensor']]"}, {"name": "do_resize", "val": ": bool | None = None"}, {"name": "size", "val": ": dict[str, int] | None = None"}, {"name": "crop_pct", "val": ": float | None = None"}, {"name": "resample", "val": ": PIL.Image.Resampling | None = None"}, {"name": "do_rescale", "val": ": bool | None = None"}, {"name": "rescale_factor", "val": ": float | None = None"}, {"name": "do_normalize", "val": ": bool | None = None"}, {"name": "image_mean", "val": ": float | list[float] | None = None"}, {"name": "image_std", "val": ": float | list[float] | None = None"}, {"name": "return_tensors", "val": ": str | transformers.utils.generic.TensorType | None = None"}, {"name": "data_format", "val": ": ChannelDimension = "}, {"name": "input_data_format", "val": ": str | transformers.image_utils.ChannelDimension | None = None"}]- **images** (`ImageInput`) --
  Image to preprocess. Expects a single or batch of images with pixel values ranging from 0 to 255. If
  passing in images with pixel values between 0 and 1, set `do_rescale=False`.
- **do_resize** (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `self.do_resize`) --
  Whether to resize the image.
- **size** (`dict[str, int]`, *optional*, defaults to `self.size`) --
  Size of the output image after `resize` has been applied. If `size["shortest_edge"]` >= 384, the image
  is resized to `(size["shortest_edge"], size["shortest_edge"])`. Otherwise, the smaller edge of the
  image will be matched to `int(size["shortest_edge"]/ crop_pct)`, after which the image is cropped to
  `(size["shortest_edge"], size["shortest_edge"])`. Only has an effect if `do_resize` is set to `True`.
- **crop_pct** (`float`, *optional*, defaults to `self.crop_pct`) --
  Percentage of the image to crop if size 0

Preprocess an image or batch of images.

**Parameters:**

do_resize (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`) : Controls whether to resize the image's (height, width) dimensions to the specified `size`. Can be overridden by `do_resize` in the `preprocess` method.

size (`dict[str, int]` *optional*, defaults to `{"shortest_edge" : 384}`): Resolution of the output image after `resize` is applied. If `size["shortest_edge"]` >= 384, the image is resized to `(size["shortest_edge"], size["shortest_edge"])`. Otherwise, the smaller edge of the image will be matched to `int(size["shortest_edge"]/crop_pct)`, after which the image is cropped to `(size["shortest_edge"], size["shortest_edge"])`. Only has an effect if `do_resize` is set to `True`. Can be overridden by `size` in the `preprocess` method.

crop_pct (`float` *optional*, defaults to 224 / 256) : Percentage of the image to crop. Only has an effect if `do_resize` is `True` and size  1` a classification loss is computed (Cross-Entropy).0[transformers.modeling_outputs.ImageClassifierOutputWithNoAttention](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.ImageClassifierOutputWithNoAttention) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`A [transformers.modeling_outputs.ImageClassifierOutputWithNoAttention](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.ImageClassifierOutputWithNoAttention) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([ConvNextConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/model_doc/convnext#transformers.ConvNextConfig)) and inputs.

- **loss** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)`, *optional*, returned when `labels` is provided) -- Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) loss.
- **logits** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, config.num_labels)`) -- Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) scores (before SoftMax).
- **hidden_states** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_hidden_states=True` is passed or when `config.output_hidden_states=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
  one for the output of each stage) of shape `(batch_size, num_channels, height, width)`. Hidden-states (also
  called feature maps) of the model at the output of each stage.
The [ConvNextForImageClassification](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/model_doc/convnext#transformers.ConvNextForImageClassification) forward method, overrides the `__call__` special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the `Module`
instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while
the latter silently ignores them.

Example:

```python
>>> from transformers import AutoImageProcessor, ConvNextForImageClassification
>>> import torch
>>> from datasets import load_dataset

>>> dataset = load_dataset("huggingface/cats-image")
>>> image = dataset["test"]["image"][0]

>>> image_processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained("facebook/convnext-tiny-224")
>>> model = ConvNextForImageClassification.from_pretrained("facebook/convnext-tiny-224")

>>> inputs = image_processor(image, return_tensors="pt")

>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     logits = model(**inputs).logits

>>> # model predicts one of the 1000 ImageNet classes
>>> predicted_label = logits.argmax(-1).item()
>>> print(model.config.id2label[predicted_label])
...
```

**Parameters:**

config ([ConvNextForImageClassification](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/model_doc/convnext#transformers.ConvNextForImageClassification)) : Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the [from_pretrained()](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/main_classes/model#transformers.PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained) method to load the model weights.

**Returns:**

`[transformers.modeling_outputs.ImageClassifierOutputWithNoAttention](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.ImageClassifierOutputWithNoAttention) or `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)``

A [transformers.modeling_outputs.ImageClassifierOutputWithNoAttention](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/main_classes/output#transformers.modeling_outputs.ImageClassifierOutputWithNoAttention) or a tuple of
`torch.FloatTensor` (if `return_dict=False` is passed or when `config.return_dict=False`) comprising various
elements depending on the configuration ([ConvNextConfig](/docs/transformers/v5.0.0/en/model_doc/convnext#transformers.ConvNextConfig)) and inputs.

- **loss** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)`, *optional*, returned when `labels` is provided) -- Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) loss.
- **logits** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, config.num_labels)`) -- Classification (or regression if config.num_labels==1) scores (before SoftMax).
- **hidden_states** (`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*, returned when `output_hidden_states=True` is passed or when `config.output_hidden_states=True`) -- Tuple of `torch.FloatTensor` (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, +
  one for the output of each stage) of shape `(batch_size, num_channels, height, width)`. Hidden-states (also
  called feature maps) of the model at the output of each stage.