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摘要

知识蒸馏（Knowledge Distillation），简称KD，将已经训练好的模型包含的知识(”Knowledge”)，蒸馏(“Distill”)提取到另一个模型里面去。Hinton在"Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network"首次提出了知识蒸馏（暗知识提取）的概念，通过引入与教师网络（Teacher network：复杂、但预测精度优越）相关的软目标（Soft-target）作为Total loss的一部分，以诱导学生网络（Student network：精简、低复杂度，更适合推理部署）的训练，实现知识迁移（Knowledge transfer）。论文链接：https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02531.pdf

蒸馏的过程

知识蒸馏使用的是Teacher—Student模型，其中teacher是“知识”的输出者，student是“知识”的接受者。知识蒸馏的过程分为2个阶段:

原始模型训练: 训练"Teacher模型", 简称为Net-T，它的特点是模型相对复杂，也可以由多个分别训练的模型集成而成。我们对"Teacher模型"不作任何关于模型架构、参数量、是否集成方面的限制，唯一的要求就是，对于输入X, 其都能输出Y，其中Y经过softmax的映射，输出值对应相应类别的概率值。
精简模型训练: 训练"Student模型", 简称为Net-S，它是参数量较小、模型结构相对简单的单模型。同样的，对于输入X，其都能输出Y，Y经过softmax映射后同样能输出对应相应类别的概率值。
Teacher学习能力强，可以将它学到的知识迁移给学习能力相对弱的Student模型，以此来增强Student模型的泛化能力。复杂笨重但是效果好的Teacher模型不上线，就单纯是个导师角色，真正部署上线进行预测任务的是灵活轻巧的Student小模型。

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最终结论

先把结论说了吧！ Teacher网络使用coatnet_2，Student网络使用ResNet18。如下表

在相同的条件下，加入知识蒸馏后，ResNet18的ACC上升了3个点，提升的还是很高的。如下图：

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数据准备

数据使用我以前在图像分类任务中的数据集——植物幼苗数据集，先将数据集转为训练集和验证集。执行代码：

import glob
import os
import shutil

image_list=glob.glob('data1/*/*.png')
print(image_list)
file_dir='data'
if os.path.exists(file_dir):
    print('true')
    #os.rmdir(file_dir)
    shutil.rmtree(file_dir)#删除再建立
    os.makedirs(file_dir)
else:
    os.makedirs(file_dir)

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
trainval_files, val_files = train_test_split(image_list, test_size=0.3, random_state=42)
train_dir='train'
val_dir='val'
train_root=os.path.join(file_dir,train_dir)
val_root=os.path.join(file_dir,val_dir)
for file in trainval_files:
    file_class=file.replace("\\","/").split('/')[-2]
    file_name=file.replace("\\","/").split('/')[-1]
    file_class=os.path.join(train_root,file_class)
    if not os.path.isdir(file_class):
        os.makedirs(file_class)
    shutil.copy(file, file_class + '/' + file_name)

for file in val_files:
    file_class=file.replace("\\","/").split('/')[-2]
    file_name=file.replace("\\","/").split('/')[-1]
    file_class=os.path.join(val_root,file_class)
    if not os.path.isdir(file_class):
        os.makedirs(file_class)
    shutil.copy(file, file_class + '/' + file_name)

教师网络

教师网络选用coatnet_2，是一个比较大一点的网络了，模型的大小有200M。训练50个epoch，最好的模型在92%左右。

步骤

新建teacher_train.py，插入代码：

导入需要的库

import torch.optim as optim
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.parallel
import torch.utils.data
import torch.utils.data.distributed
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
from torchvision import datasets
from torch.autograd import Variable
from model.coatnet import coatnet_2

import json
import os

定义训练和验证函数


def train(model, device, train_loader, optimizer, epoch):
    model.train()
    sum_loss = 0
    total_num = len(train_loader.dataset)
    print(total_num, len(train_loader))
    for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(train_loader):
        data, target = Variable(data).to(device), Variable(target).to(device)
        output = model(data)
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()
        print_loss = loss.data.item()
        sum_loss += print_loss
        if (batch_idx + 1) % 10 == 0:
            print('Train Epoch: {} [{}/{} ({:.0f}%)]\tLoss: {:.6f}'.format(
                epoch, (batch_idx + 1) * len(data), len(train_loader.dataset),
                       100. * (batch_idx + 1) / len(train_loader), loss.item()))
    ave_loss = sum_loss / len(train_loader)
    print('epoch:{},loss:{}'.format(epoch, ave_loss))

Best_ACC=0
# 验证过程
@torch.no_grad()
def val(model, device, test_loader):
    global Best_ACC
    model.eval()
    test_loss = 0
    correct = 0
    total_num = len(test_loader.dataset)
    print(total_num, len(test_loader))
    with torch.no_grad():
        for data, target in test_loader:
            data, target = Variable(data).to(device), Variable(target).to(device)
            output = model(data)
            loss = criterion(output, target)
            _, pred = torch.max(output.data, 1)
            correct += torch.sum(pred == target)
            print_loss = loss.data.item()
            test_loss += print_loss
        correct = correct.data.item()
        acc = correct / total_num
        avgloss = test_loss / len(test_loader)
        if acc > Best_ACC:
            torch.save(model, file_dir + '/' + 'best.pth')
            Best_ACC = acc
        print('\nVal set: Average loss: {:.4f}, Accuracy: {}/{} ({:.0f}%)\n'.format(
            avgloss, correct, len(test_loader.dataset), 100 * acc))
        return acc

定义全局参数

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # 创建保存模型的文件夹
    file_dir = 'CoatNet'
    if os.path.exists(file_dir):
        print('true')

        os.makedirs(file_dir, exist_ok=True)
    else:
        os.makedirs(file_dir)

    # 设置全局参数
    modellr = 1e-4
    BATCH_SIZE = 16
    EPOCHS = 50
    DEVICE = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')

图像预处理与增强

 # 数据预处理7
    transform = transforms.Compose([
        transforms.RandomRotation(10),
        transforms.GaussianBlur(kernel_size=(5, 5), sigma=(0.1, 3.0)),
        transforms.ColorJitter(brightness=0.5, contrast=0.5, saturation=0.5),
        transforms.Resize((224, 224)),
        transforms.ToTensor(),
        transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.44127703, 0.4712498, 0.43714803], std=[0.18507297, 0.18050247, 0.16784933])

    ])
    transform_test = transforms.Compose([
        transforms.Resize((224, 224)),
        transforms.ToTensor(),
        transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.44127703, 0.4712498, 0.43714803], std=[0.18507297, 0.18050247, 0.16784933])
    ])

读取数据

使用pytorch默认读取数据的方式。

    # 读取数据
    dataset_train = datasets.ImageFolder('data/train', transform=transform)
    dataset_test = datasets.ImageFolder("data/val", transform=transform_test)
    with open('class.txt', 'w') as file:
        file.write(str(dataset_train.class_to_idx))
    with open('class.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
        file.write(json.dumps(dataset_train.class_to_idx))
    # 导入数据
    train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset_train, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=True)
    test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset_test, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=False)

设置模型和Loss

   # 实例化模型并且移动到GPU
    criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()

    model_ft = coatnet_2()
    num_ftrs = model_ft.fc.in_features
    model_ft.fc = nn.Linear(num_ftrs, 12)
    model_ft.to(DEVICE)
    # 选择简单暴力的Adam优化器，学习率调低
    optimizer = optim.Adam(model_ft.parameters(), lr=modellr)
    cosine_schedule = optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(optimizer=optimizer, T_max=20, eta_min=1e-9)
    # 训练
    val_acc_list= {}
    for epoch in range(1, EPOCHS + 1):
        train(model_ft, DEVICE, train_loader, optimizer, epoch)
        cosine_schedule.step()
        acc=val(model_ft, DEVICE, test_loader)
        val_acc_list[epoch]=acc
        with open('result.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
            file.write(json.dumps(val_acc_list))
    torch.save(model_ft, 'CoatNet/model_final.pth')

完成上面的代码就可以开始训练Teacher网络了。

学生网络

学生网络选用ResNet18，是一个比较小一点的网络了，模型的大小有40M。训练50个epoch，最好的模型在86%左右。

步骤

新建student_train.py，插入代码：

导入需要的库

import torch.optim as optim
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.parallel
import torch.utils.data
import torch.utils.data.distributed
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
from torchvision import datasets
from torch.autograd import Variable
from torchvision.models.resnet import resnet18

import json
import os

定义训练和验证函数


def train(model, device, train_loader, optimizer, epoch):
    model.train()
    sum_loss = 0
    total_num = len(train_loader.dataset)
    print(total_num, len(train_loader))
    for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(train_loader):
        data, target = Variable(data).to(device), Variable(target).to(device)
        output = model(data)
        loss = criterion(output, target)
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()
        print_loss = loss.data.item()
        sum_loss += print_loss
        if (batch_idx + 1) % 10 == 0:
            print('Train Epoch: {} [{}/{} ({:.0f}%)]\tLoss: {:.6f}'.format(
                epoch, (batch_idx + 1) * len(data), len(train_loader.dataset),
                       100. * (batch_idx + 1) / len(train_loader), loss.item()))
    ave_loss = sum_loss / len(train_loader)
    print('epoch:{},loss:{}'.format(epoch, ave_loss))

Best_ACC=0
# 验证过程
@torch.no_grad()
def val(model, device, test_loader):
    global Best_ACC
    model.eval()
    test_loss = 0
    correct = 0
    total_num = len(test_loader.dataset)
    print(total_num, len(test_loader))
    with torch.no_grad():
        for data, target in test_loader:
            data, target = Variable(data).to(device), Variable(target).to(device)
            output = model(data)
            loss = criterion(output, target)
            _, pred = torch.max(output.data, 1)
            correct += torch.sum(pred == target)
            print_loss = loss.data.item()
            test_loss += print_loss
        correct = correct.data.item()
        acc = correct / total_num
        avgloss = test_loss / len(test_loader)
        if acc > Best_ACC:
            torch.save(model, file_dir + '/' + 'best.pth')
            Best_ACC = acc
        print('\nVal set: Average loss: {:.4f}, Accuracy: {}/{} ({:.0f}%)\n'.format(
            avgloss, correct, len(test_loader.dataset), 100 * acc))
        return acc

定义全局参数

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # 创建保存模型的文件夹
    file_dir = 'resnet'
    if os.path.exists(file_dir):
        print('true')

        os.makedirs(file_dir, exist_ok=True)
    else:
        os.makedirs(file_dir)

    # 设置全局参数
    modellr = 1e-4
    BATCH_SIZE = 16
    EPOCHS = 50
    DEVICE = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')

图像预处理与增强

 # 数据预处理7
    transform = transforms.Compose([
        transforms.RandomRotation(10),
        transforms.GaussianBlur(kernel_size=(5, 5), sigma=(0.1, 3.0)),
        transforms.ColorJitter(brightness=0.5, contrast=0.5, saturation=0.5),
        transforms.Resize((224, 224)),
        transforms.ToTensor(),
        transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.44127703, 0.4712498, 0.43714803], std=[0.18507297, 0.18050247, 0.16784933])

    ])
    transform_test = transforms.Compose([
        transforms.Resize((224, 224)),
        transforms.ToTensor(),
        transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.44127703, 0.4712498, 0.43714803], std=[0.18507297, 0.18050247, 0.16784933])
    ])

读取数据

使用pytorch默认读取数据的方式。

    # 读取数据
    dataset_train = datasets.ImageFolder('data/train', transform=transform)
    dataset_test = datasets.ImageFolder("data/val", transform=transform_test)
    with open('class.txt', 'w') as file:
        file.write(str(dataset_train.class_to_idx))
    with open('class.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
        file.write(json.dumps(dataset_train.class_to_idx))
    # 导入数据
    train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset_train, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=True)
    test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset_test, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=False)

设置模型和Loss

	# 实例化模型并且移动到GPU
    criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
    model_ft = resnet18()
    print(model_ft)
    num_ftrs = model_ft.fc.in_features
    model_ft.fc = nn.Linear(num_ftrs, 12)
    model_ft.to(DEVICE)
    # 选择简单暴力的Adam优化器，学习率调低
    optimizer = optim.Adam(model_ft.parameters(), lr=modellr)
    cosine_schedule = optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(optimizer=optimizer, T_max=20, eta_min=1e-9)
    # 训练
    val_acc_list= {}
    for epoch in range(1, EPOCHS + 1):
        train(model_ft, DEVICE, train_loader, optimizer, epoch)
        cosine_schedule.step()
        acc=val(model_ft, DEVICE, test_loader)
        val_acc_list[epoch]=acc
        with open('result_student.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
            file.write(json.dumps(val_acc_list))
    torch.save(model_ft, 'resnet/model_final.pth')

完成上面的代码就可以开始训练Student网络了。

蒸馏学生网络

学生网络继续选用ResNet18，使用Teacher网络蒸馏学生网络，训练50个epoch，最终ACC是89%。

步骤

新建student_kd_train.py，插入代码：

导入需要的库

import torch.optim as optim
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.parallel
import torch.utils.data
import torch.utils.data.distributed
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
from torchvision import datasets
from torch.autograd import Variable
from torchvision.models.resnet import resnet18

import json
import os

定义蒸馏函数

def distillation(y, labels, teacher_scores, temp, alpha):
    return nn.KLDivLoss()(F.log_softmax(y / temp, dim=1), F.softmax(teacher_scores / temp, dim=1)) * (
            temp * temp * 2.0 * alpha) + F.cross_entropy(y, labels) * (1. - alpha)

定义训练和验证函数


# 定义训练过程
def train(model, device, train_loader, optimizer, epoch):
    model.train()
    sum_loss = 0
    total_num = len(train_loader.dataset)
    print(total_num, len(train_loader))
    for batch_idx, (data, target) in enumerate(train_loader):
        data, target = data.to(device), target.to(device)
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        output = model(data)
        teacher_output = teacher_model(data)  # 训练出教师的 teacher_output
        teacher_output = teacher_output.detach()  # 切断老师网络的反向传播
        loss = distillation(output, target, teacher_output, temp=7.0, alpha=0.7)  # 通过老师的 teacher_output训练学生的output

        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()
        print_loss = loss.data.item()
        sum_loss += print_loss
        if (batch_idx + 1) % 10 == 0:
            print('Train Epoch: {} [{}/{} ({:.0f}%)]\tLoss: {:.6f}'.format(
                epoch, (batch_idx + 1) * len(data), len(train_loader.dataset),
                       100. * (batch_idx + 1) / len(train_loader), loss.item()))
    ave_loss = sum_loss / len(train_loader)
    print('epoch:{},loss:{}'.format(epoch, ave_loss))

Best_ACC=0
# 验证过程
@torch.no_grad()
def val(model, device, test_loader):
    global Best_ACC
    model.eval()
    test_loss = 0
    correct = 0
    total_num = len(test_loader.dataset)
    print(total_num, len(test_loader))
    with torch.no_grad():
        for data, target in test_loader:
            data, target = Variable(data).to(device), Variable(target).to(device)
            output = model(data)
            loss = criterion(output, target)
            _, pred = torch.max(output.data, 1)
            correct += torch.sum(pred == target)
            print_loss = loss.data.item()
            test_loss += print_loss
        correct = correct.data.item()
        acc = correct / total_num
        avgloss = test_loss / len(test_loader)
        if acc > Best_ACC:
            torch.save(model, file_dir + '/' + 'best.pth')
            Best_ACC = acc
        print('\nVal set: Average loss: {:.4f}, Accuracy: {}/{} ({:.0f}%)\n'.format(
            avgloss, correct, len(test_loader.dataset), 100 * acc))
        return acc

定义全局参数

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # 创建保存模型的文件夹
    file_dir = 'resnet_kd'
    if os.path.exists(file_dir):
        print('true')

        os.makedirs(file_dir, exist_ok=True)
    else:
        os.makedirs(file_dir)

    # 设置全局参数
    modellr = 1e-4
    BATCH_SIZE = 16
    EPOCHS = 50
    DEVICE = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')

图像预处理与增强

 # 数据预处理7
    transform = transforms.Compose([
        transforms.RandomRotation(10),
        transforms.GaussianBlur(kernel_size=(5, 5), sigma=(0.1, 3.0)),
        transforms.ColorJitter(brightness=0.5, contrast=0.5, saturation=0.5),
        transforms.Resize((224, 224)),
        transforms.ToTensor(),
        transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.44127703, 0.4712498, 0.43714803], std=[0.18507297, 0.18050247, 0.16784933])

    ])
    transform_test = transforms.Compose([
        transforms.Resize((224, 224)),
        transforms.ToTensor(),
        transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.44127703, 0.4712498, 0.43714803], std=[0.18507297, 0.18050247, 0.16784933])
    ])

读取数据

使用pytorch默认读取数据的方式。

    # 读取数据
    dataset_train = datasets.ImageFolder('data/train', transform=transform)
    dataset_test = datasets.ImageFolder("data/val", transform=transform_test)
    with open('class.txt', 'w') as file:
        file.write(str(dataset_train.class_to_idx))
    with open('class.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
        file.write(json.dumps(dataset_train.class_to_idx))
    # 导入数据
    train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset_train, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=True)
    test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset_test, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=False)

设置模型和Loss

	# 实例化模型并且移动到GPU
    criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
    model_ft = resnet18()
    print(model_ft)
    num_ftrs = model_ft.fc.in_features
    model_ft.fc = nn.Linear(num_ftrs, 12)
    model_ft.to(DEVICE)
    # 选择简单暴力的Adam优化器，学习率调低
    optimizer = optim.Adam(model_ft.parameters(), lr=modellr)
    cosine_schedule = optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(optimizer=optimizer, T_max=20, eta_min=1e-9)
    # 训练
    val_acc_list= {}
    for epoch in range(1, EPOCHS + 1):
        train(model_ft, DEVICE, train_loader, optimizer, epoch)
        cosine_schedule.step()
        acc=val(model_ft, DEVICE, test_loader)
        val_acc_list[epoch]=acc
        with open('result_student.json', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
            file.write(json.dumps(val_acc_list))
    torch.save(model_ft, 'resnet_kd/model_final.pth')

完成上面的代码就可以开始蒸馏模式！！！

结果比对

加载保存的结果，然后绘制acc曲线。

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import json
teacher_file='result.json'
student_file='result_student.json'
student_kd_file='result_kd.json'
def read_json(file):
    with open(file, 'r', encoding='utf8') as fp:
        json_data = json.load(fp)
        print(json_data)
    return json_data

teacher_data=read_json(teacher_file)
student_data=read_json(student_file)
student_kd_data=read_json(student_kd_file)


x =[int(x) for x in  list(dict(teacher_data).keys())]
print(x)

plt.plot(x, list(teacher_data.values()), label='teacher')
plt.plot(x,list(student_data.values()), label='student without KD')
plt.plot(x, list(student_kd_data.values()), label='student with KD')

plt.title('Test accuracy')
plt.legend()

plt.show()