Only 1 GPU is used for training

[douyh]

I noticed that only 1 GPU is used to train TransPose-R-A4 and lr=0.0001. Should I change the lr if I want to use 4 or 8 gpus? Or just keep the same? Thanks for your reply.

[douyh]

Only 73.7AP I got. 4 gpus were used for training and I kept the other configs.

[yangsenius]

From my experience, the performances of transpose-r models are very sensitive to the initial learning rate. I did not train transpose-r-a4 on 4 or 8 GPUs. I suggest you increase the initial learning rate a little bit at such conditions (with larger batchsize).

[yangsenius]

Please let me know the results if you have tried such experiments.

[EckoTan0804]

@yangsenius @douyh FYI, I have trained TransPose-R-A4 on 4 GPUs. Initial and final learning rate were set to 5e-4 and 5e-5, respectively. Other configs kept unchanged. I got 75.3 AP (+0.2 AP compared to README).

[yangsenius]

Thanks for sharing the results! Happy to see that can bring performance improvement @EckoTan0804

Larger batchsizes with more GPUs empirically bring performance improvement. The learning rate setting of DeiT -- 0.0005 ×batchsize/ constant may also work well.