# SimCLR ## A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations This paper presents SimCLR: a simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. We simplify recently proposed contrastive self-supervised learning algorithms without requiring specialized architectures or a memory bank. In order to understand what enables the contrastive prediction tasks to learn useful representations, we systematically study the major components of our framework. We show that (1) composition of data augmentations plays a critical role in defining effective predictive tasks, (2) introducing a learnable nonlinear transformation between the representation and the contrastive loss substantially improves the quality of the learned representations, and (3) contrastive learning benefits from larger batch sizes and more training steps compared to supervised learning. By combining these findings, we are able to considerably outperform previous methods for self-supervised and semi-supervised learning on ImageNet. A linear classifier trained on self-supervised representations learned by SimCLR achieves 76.5% top-1 accuracy, which is a 7% relative improvement over previous state-of-the-art, matching the performance of a supervised ResNet-50.
## Citation ```bibtex @inproceedings{chen2020simple, title={A simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations}, author={Chen, Ting and Kornblith, Simon and Norouzi, Mohammad and Hinton, Geoffrey}, booktitle={ICML}, year={2020}, } ``` ## Models and Benchmarks [Back to model_zoo.md](../../../docs/model_zoo.md) In this page, we provide benchmarks as much as possible to evaluate our pre-trained models. If not mentioned, all models were trained on ImageNet1k dataset. ### VOC SVM / Low-shot SVM The **Best Layer** indicates that the best results are obtained from which layers feature map. For example, if the **Best Layer** is **feature3**, its best result is obtained from the second stage of ResNet (1 for stem layer, 2-5 for 4 stage layers). Besides, k=1 to 96 indicates the hyper-parameter of Low-shot SVM. | Model | Config | Best Layer | SVM | k=1 | k=2 | k=4 | k=8 | k=16 | k=32 | k=64 | k=96 | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | | | | | | | | | | | ### ImageNet Linear Evaluation The **Feature1 - Feature5** don't have the GlobalAveragePooling, the feature map is pooled to the specific dimensions and then follows a Linear layer to do the classification. Please refer to [resnet50_mhead_8xb32-steplr-90e.py](../../benchmarks/classification/imagenet/resnet50_mhead_8xb32-steplr-90e_in1k.py) for details of config. The **AvgPool** result is obtained from Linear Evaluation with GlobalAveragePooling. Please refer to [file name]() for details of config. | Model | Config | Feature1 | Feature2 | Feature3 | Feature4 | Feature5 | AvgPool | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | ------- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | | | | | | | ### iNaturalist2018 Linear Evaluation Please refer to [resnet50_mhead_8xb32-steplr-84e_inat18.py](../../benchmarks/classification/inaturalist2018/resnet50_mhead_8xb32-steplr-84e_inat18.py) and [file name]() for details of config. | Model | Config | Feature1 | Feature2 | Feature3 | Feature4 | Feature5 | AvgPool | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | ------- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | | | | | | | ### Places205 Linear Evaluation Please refer to [resnet50_mhead_8xb32-steplr-28e_places205.py](../../benchmarks/classification/inaturalist2018/resnet50_mhead_8xb32-steplr-28e_places205.py) and [file name]() for details of config. | Model | Config | Feature1 | Feature2 | Feature3 | Feature4 | Feature5 | AvgPool | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | ------- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | | | | | | | #### Semi-Supervised Classification - In this benchmark, the necks or heads are removed and only the backbone CNN is evaluated by appending a linear classification head. All parameters are fine-tuned. - When training with 1% ImageNet, we find hyper-parameters especially the learning rate greatly influence the performance. Hence, we prepare a list of settings with the base learning rate from `{0.001, 0.01, 0.1}` and the learning rate multiplier for the head from `{1, 10, 100}`. We choose the best performing setting for each method. The setting of parameters are indicated in the file name. The learning rate is indicated like `1e-1`, `1e-2`, `1e-3` and the learning rate multiplier is indicated like `head1`, `head10`, `head100`. - Please use --deterministic in this benchmark. Please refer to the directories `configs/benchmarks/classification/imagenet/imagenet_1percent/` of 1% data and `configs/benchmarks/classification/imagenet/imagenet_10percent/` 10% data for details. | Model | Pretrain Config | Fine-tuned Config | Top-1 (%) | Top-5 (%) | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | --------- | --------- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | | | | ### Detection The detection benchmarks includes 2 downstream task datasets, **Pascal VOC 2007 + 2012** and **COCO2017**. This benchmark follows the evluation protocols set up by MoCo. #### Pascal VOC 2007 + 2012 Please refer to [faster_rcnn_r50_c4_mstrain_24k.py](../../benchmarks/mmdetection/voc0712/faster_rcnn_r50_c4_mstrain_24k.py) for details of config. | Model | Config | mAP | AP50 | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | ---- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | | | #### COCO2017 Please refer to [mask_rcnn_r50_fpn_mstrain_1x.py](../../benchmarks/mmdetection/coco/mask_rcnn_r50_fpn_mstrain_1x.py) for details of config. | Model | Config | mAP(Box) | AP50(Box) | AP75(Box) | mAP(Mask) | AP50(Mask) | AP75(Mask) | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | ---------- | ---------- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | | | | | | | ### Segmentation The segmentation benchmarks includes 2 downstream task datasets, **Cityscapes** and **Pascal VOC 2012 + Aug**. It follows the evluation protocols set up by MMSegmentation. #### Pascal VOC 2012 + Aug Please refer to [file]() for details of config. | Model | Config | mIOU | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | | #### Cityscapes Please refer to [file]() for details of config. | Model | Config | mIOU | | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | | [model]() | [resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e](simclr_resnet50_8xb32-coslr-200e_in1k.py) | |