来聊聊DenseNet及其变体PeleeNet、VoVNet

class _DenseLayer(nn.Sequential):
    """Basic unit of DenseBlock (using bottleneck layer) """
    def __init__(self, num_input_features, growth_rate, bn_size, drop_rate):
        super(_DenseLayer, self).__init__()
        self.add_module("norm1", nn.BatchNorm2d(num_input_features))
        self.add_module("relu1", nn.ReLU(inplace=True))
        self.add_module("conv1", nn.Conv2d(num_input_features, bn_size*growth_rate,
                                           kernel_size=1, stride=1, bias=False))
        self.add_module("norm2", nn.BatchNorm2d(bn_size*growth_rate))
        self.add_module("relu2", nn.ReLU(inplace=True))
        self.add_module("conv2", nn.Conv2d(bn_size*growth_rate, growth_rate,
                                           kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1, bias=False))
        self.drop_rate = drop_rate

    def forward(self, x):
        new_features = super(_DenseLayer, self).forward(x)
        if self.drop_rate > 0:
            new_features = F.dropout(new_features, p=self.drop_rate, training=self.training)
        return torch.cat([x, new_features], 1)

据此，实现DenseBlock模块，内部是密集连接方式（输入特征数线性增长）：

class _DenseBlock(nn.Sequential):
    """DenseBlock"""
    def __init__(self, num_layers, num_input_features, bn_size, growth_rate, drop_rate):
        super(_DenseBlock, self).__init__()
        for i in range(num_layers):
            layer = _DenseLayer(num_input_features+i*growth_rate, growth_rate, bn_size,
                                drop_rate)
            self.add_module("denselayer%d" % (i+1,), layer)

此外，实现Transition层，它主要是一个卷积层和一个池化层：
class _Transition(nn.Sequential):
    """Transition layer between two adjacent DenseBlock"""
    def __init__(self, num_input_feature, num_output_features):
        super(_Transition, self).__init__()
        self.add_module("norm", nn.BatchNorm2d(num_input_feature))
        self.add_module("relu", nn.ReLU(inplace=True))
        self.add_module("conv", nn.Conv2d(num_input_feature, num_output_features,
                                          kernel_size=1, stride=1, bias=False))
        self.add_module("pool", nn.AvgPool2d(2, stride=2))

最后我们实现DenseNet网络：
class DenseNet(nn.Module):
    "DenseNet-BC model"
    def __init__(self, growth_rate=32, block_config=(6, 12, 24, 16), num_init_features=64,
                 bn_size=4, compression_rate=0.5, drop_rate=0, num_classes=1000):
        """        :param growth_rate: (int) number of filters used in DenseLayer, `k` in the paper        :param block_config: (list of 4 ints) number of layers in each DenseBlock        :param num_init_features: (int) number of filters in the first Conv2d        :param bn_size: (int) the factor using in the bottleneck layer        :param compression_rate: (float) the compression rate used in Transition Layer        :param drop_rate: (float) the drop rate after each DenseLayer        :param num_classes: (int) number of classes for classification        """
        super(DenseNet, self).__init__()
        # first Conv2d
        self.features = nn.Sequential(OrderedDict([
            ("conv0", nn.Conv2d(3, num_init_features, kernel_size=7, stride=2, padding=3, bias=False)),
            ("norm0", nn.BatchNorm2d(num_init_features)),
            ("relu0", nn.ReLU(inplace=True)),
            ("pool0", nn.MaxPool2d(3, stride=2, padding=1))
        ]))

        # DenseBlock
        num_features = num_init_features
        for i, num_layers in enumerate(block_config):
            block = _DenseBlock(num_layers, num_features, bn_size, growth_rate, drop_rate)
            self.features.add_module("denseblock%d" % (i + 1), block)
            num_features += num_layers*growth_rate
            if i != len(block_config) - 1:
                transition = _Transition(num_features, int(num_features*compression_rate))
                self.features.add_module("transition%d" % (i + 1), transition)
                num_features = int(num_features * compression_rate)

        # final bn+ReLU
        self.features.add_module("norm5", nn.BatchNorm2d(num_features))
        self.features.add_module("relu5", nn.ReLU(inplace=True))

        # classification layer
        self.classifier = nn.Linear(num_features, num_classes)

        # params initialization
        for m in self.modules():
            if isinstance(m, nn.Conv2d):
                nn.init.kaiming_normal_(m.weight)
            elif isinstance(m, nn.BatchNorm2d):
                nn.init.constant_(m.bias, 0)
                nn.init.constant_(m.weight, 1)
            elif isinstance(m, nn.Linear):
                nn.init.constant_(m.bias, 0)

    def forward(self, x):
        features = self.features(x)
        out = F.avg_pool2d(features, 7, stride=1).view(features.size(0), -1)
        out = self.classifier(out)
        return out