Training directly with FP16

[caiusdebucean]

❔ Can you train yolov5 in FP16?

Additional context

I understand that the model is converted to FP16 at the end of the training cycle, and its inferenced in FP16. I was wondering if its possible to train in half-precision or mixed-precision, in order to speed up the training process. Thanks.

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Requirements

Python 3.8 or later with all requirements.txt dependencies installed, including torch>=1.7. To install run:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Environments

YOLOv5 may be run in any of the following up-to-date verified environments (with all dependencies including CUDA/CUDNN, Python and PyTorch preinstalled):

• Google Colab Notebook with free GPU:
• Kaggle Notebook with free GPU: https://www.kaggle.com/ultralytics/yolov5
• Google Cloud Deep Learning VM. See GCP Quickstart Guide
• Docker Image https://hub.docker.com/r/ultralytics/yolov5. See Docker Quickstart Guide

Status

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[glenn-jocher]

@caiusdebucean YOLOv5 models are trained using Automatic Mixed Precision (AMP). https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/3e25f1e9e52069189fb140d50c09dddb5be3cff0/train.py#L290-L298

[suddulavenkatanaresh]

hai iam bigfan of yolov5

1.first u have to tarin on the fp32 then convert to onxx and convert tensorrt fp16 for inference .which can increases the your speed to more than as u expected in training bro

[Alberto1404]

@glenn-jocher when I convert the .pt into .wts and .cfg via marcoslucianops/DeepStream-Yolo repo for further deployment on Jetson, it is required to have FP16 or INT8 weights if I want to use DLA.(It is required for me to leave the GPU for other processes) How should I procceed?

[caiusdebucean]

You can convert the .pt model to FP16/INT8. Check #10505 - here there are presented the export parameters. For example, --half will export the model in FP16.

[Alberto1404]

@caiusdebucean my output should be a .pt file aswell. Trying --include or --include - does not work for me. What should be the exact instruction to export it?

[glenn-jocher]

👋 Hello! Thanks for asking about Export Formats. YOLOv5 🚀 offers export to almost all of the common export formats. See our TFLite, ONNX, CoreML, TensorRT Export Tutorial for full details.

Formats

YOLOv5 inference is officially supported in 11 formats:

💡 ProTip: Export to ONNX or OpenVINO for up to 3x CPU speedup. See CPU Benchmarks. 💡 ProTip: Export to TensorRT for up to 5x GPU speedup. See GPU Benchmarks.

Format	export.py --include	Model
PyTorch	-	yolov5s.pt
TorchScript	torchscript	yolov5s.torchscript
ONNX	onnx	yolov5s.onnx
OpenVINO	openvino	yolov5s_openvino_model/
TensorRT	engine	yolov5s.engine
CoreML	coreml	yolov5s.mlmodel
TensorFlow SavedModel	saved_model	yolov5s_saved_model/
TensorFlow GraphDef	pb	yolov5s.pb
TensorFlow Lite	tflite	yolov5s.tflite
TensorFlow Edge TPU	edgetpu	yolov5s_edgetpu.tflite
TensorFlow.js	tfjs	yolov5s_web_model/
PaddlePaddle	paddle	yolov5s_paddle_model/

Benchmarks

Benchmarks below run on a Colab Pro with the YOLOv5 tutorial notebook . To reproduce:

python benchmarks.py --weights yolov5s.pt --imgsz 640 --device 0

Colab Pro V100 GPU

benchmarks: weights=/content/yolov5/yolov5s.pt, imgsz=640, batch_size=1, data=/content/yolov5/data/coco128.yaml, device=0, half=False, test=False
Checking setup...
YOLOv5 🚀 v6.1-135-g7926afc torch 1.10.0+cu111 CUDA:0 (Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB, 16160MiB)
Setup complete ✅ (8 CPUs, 51.0 GB RAM, 46.7/166.8 GB disk)

Benchmarks complete (458.07s)
                   Format  mAP@0.5:0.95  Inference time (ms)
0                 PyTorch        0.4623                10.19
1             TorchScript        0.4623                 6.85
2                    ONNX        0.4623                14.63
3                OpenVINO           NaN                  NaN
4                TensorRT        0.4617                 1.89
5                  CoreML           NaN                  NaN
6   TensorFlow SavedModel        0.4623                21.28
7     TensorFlow GraphDef        0.4623                21.22
8         TensorFlow Lite           NaN                  NaN
9     TensorFlow Edge TPU           NaN                  NaN
10          TensorFlow.js           NaN                  NaN

Colab Pro CPU

benchmarks: weights=/content/yolov5/yolov5s.pt, imgsz=640, batch_size=1, data=/content/yolov5/data/coco128.yaml, device=cpu, half=False, test=False
Checking setup...
YOLOv5 🚀 v6.1-135-g7926afc torch 1.10.0+cu111 CPU
Setup complete ✅ (8 CPUs, 51.0 GB RAM, 41.5/166.8 GB disk)

Benchmarks complete (241.20s)
                   Format  mAP@0.5:0.95  Inference time (ms)
0                 PyTorch        0.4623               127.61
1             TorchScript        0.4623               131.23
2                    ONNX        0.4623                69.34
3                OpenVINO        0.4623                66.52
4                TensorRT           NaN                  NaN
5                  CoreML           NaN                  NaN
6   TensorFlow SavedModel        0.4623               123.79
7     TensorFlow GraphDef        0.4623               121.57
8         TensorFlow Lite        0.4623               316.61
9     TensorFlow Edge TPU           NaN                  NaN
10          TensorFlow.js           NaN                  NaN

Export a Trained YOLOv5 Model

This command exports a pretrained YOLOv5s model to TorchScript and ONNX formats. yolov5s.pt is the 'small' model, the second smallest model available. Other options are yolov5n.pt, yolov5m.pt, yolov5l.pt and yolov5x.pt, along with their P6 counterparts i.e. yolov5s6.pt or you own custom training checkpoint i.e. runs/exp/weights/best.pt. For details on all available models please see our README table.

python export.py --weights yolov5s.pt --include torchscript onnx

💡 ProTip: Add --half to export models at FP16 half precision for smaller file sizes

Output:

export: data=data/coco128.yaml, weights=['yolov5s.pt'], imgsz=[640, 640], batch_size=1, device=cpu, half=False, inplace=False, train=False, keras=False, optimize=False, int8=False, dynamic=False, simplify=False, opset=12, verbose=False, workspace=4, nms=False, agnostic_nms=False, topk_per_class=100, topk_all=100, iou_thres=0.45, conf_thres=0.25, include=['torchscript', 'onnx']
YOLOv5 🚀 v6.2-104-ge3e5122 Python-3.7.13 torch-1.12.1+cu113 CPU

Downloading https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/releases/download/v6.2/yolov5s.pt to yolov5s.pt...
100% 14.1M/14.1M [00:00<00:00, 274MB/s]

Fusing layers... 
YOLOv5s summary: 213 layers, 7225885 parameters, 0 gradients

PyTorch: starting from yolov5s.pt with output shape (1, 25200, 85) (14.1 MB)

TorchScript: starting export with torch 1.12.1+cu113...
TorchScript: export success ✅ 1.7s, saved as yolov5s.torchscript (28.1 MB)

ONNX: starting export with onnx 1.12.0...
ONNX: export success ✅ 2.3s, saved as yolov5s.onnx (28.0 MB)

Export complete (5.5s)
Results saved to /content/yolov5
Detect:          python detect.py --weights yolov5s.onnx 
Validate:        python val.py --weights yolov5s.onnx 
PyTorch Hub:     model = torch.hub.load('ultralytics/yolov5', 'custom', 'yolov5s.onnx')
Visualize:       https://netron.app/

The 3 exported models will be saved alongside the original PyTorch model:

Netron Viewer is recommended for visualizing exported models:

Exported Model Usage Examples

detect.py runs inference on exported models:

python detect.py --weights yolov5s.pt                 # PyTorch
                           yolov5s.torchscript        # TorchScript
                           yolov5s.onnx               # ONNX Runtime or OpenCV DNN with --dnn
                           yolov5s_openvino_model     # OpenVINO
                           yolov5s.engine             # TensorRT
                           yolov5s.mlmodel            # CoreML (macOS only)
                           yolov5s_saved_model        # TensorFlow SavedModel
                           yolov5s.pb                 # TensorFlow GraphDef
                           yolov5s.tflite             # TensorFlow Lite
                           yolov5s_edgetpu.tflite     # TensorFlow Edge TPU
                           yolov5s_paddle_model       # PaddlePaddle

val.py runs validation on exported models:

python val.py --weights yolov5s.pt                 # PyTorch
                        yolov5s.torchscript        # TorchScript
                        yolov5s.onnx               # ONNX Runtime or OpenCV DNN with --dnn
                        yolov5s_openvino_model     # OpenVINO
                        yolov5s.engine             # TensorRT
                        yolov5s.mlmodel            # CoreML (macOS Only)
                        yolov5s_saved_model        # TensorFlow SavedModel
                        yolov5s.pb                 # TensorFlow GraphDef
                        yolov5s.tflite             # TensorFlow Lite
                        yolov5s_edgetpu.tflite     # TensorFlow Edge TPU
                        yolov5s_paddle_model       # PaddlePaddle

Use PyTorch Hub with exported YOLOv5 models:

import torch

# Model
model = torch.hub.load('ultralytics/yolov5', 'custom', 'yolov5s.pt')
                                                       'yolov5s.torchscript ')       # TorchScript
                                                       'yolov5s.onnx')               # ONNX Runtime
                                                       'yolov5s_openvino_model')     # OpenVINO
                                                       'yolov5s.engine')             # TensorRT
                                                       'yolov5s.mlmodel')            # CoreML (macOS Only)
                                                       'yolov5s_saved_model')        # TensorFlow SavedModel
                                                       'yolov5s.pb')                 # TensorFlow GraphDef
                                                       'yolov5s.tflite')             # TensorFlow Lite
                                                       'yolov5s_edgetpu.tflite')     # TensorFlow Edge TPU
                                                       'yolov5s_paddle_model')       # PaddlePaddle

# Images
img = 'https://ultralytics.com/images/zidane.jpg'  # or file, Path, PIL, OpenCV, numpy, list

# Inference
results = model(img)

# Results
results.print()  # or .show(), .save(), .crop(), .pandas(), etc.

OpenCV DNN inference

OpenCV inference with ONNX models:

python export.py --weights yolov5s.pt --include onnx

python detect.py --weights yolov5s.onnx --dnn  # detect
python val.py --weights yolov5s.onnx --dnn  # validate

C++ Inference

YOLOv5 OpenCV DNN C++ inference on exported ONNX model examples:

• https://github.com/Hexmagic/ONNX-yolov5/blob/master/src/test.cpp
• https://github.com/doleron/yolov5-opencv-cpp-python

YOLOv5 OpenVINO C++ inference examples:

• https://github.com/dacquaviva/yolov5-openvino-cpp-python
• https://github.com/UNeedCryDear/yolov5-seg-opencv-dnn-cpp

Good luck 🍀 and let us know if you have any other questions!

[Kanan99]

@glenn-jocher when I convert the .pt into .wts and .cfg via marcoslucianops/DeepStream-Yolo repo for further deployment on Jetson, it is required to have FP16 or INT8 weights if I want to use DLA.(It is required for me to leave the GPU for other processes) How should I proceed?

@Alberto1404 While converting within marcoslucianops/DeepStream-Yolo repo did you observe a drastic drop in accuracy of the model?

[glenn-jocher]

Hello @Kanan99! To ensure your model uses FP16 or INT8 weights for DLA on Jetson, you'll need to convert your .pt model to the desired precision before exporting to .wts and .cfg. You can do this directly in the YOLOv5 repository using the --half flag during the export for FP16. Here’s a quick example:

python export.py --weights yolov5s.pt --include torchscript --half

This command converts the model to FP16, which you can then further convert using the DeepStream-Yolo repo. If you're experiencing a drastic drop in accuracy, it might be due to the precision reduction. It's a common trade-off for the speed gains on DLA. You might want to experiment with different quantization approaches or adjust the confidence thresholds to mitigate this. 😊