tf-ffcv

This library provide (experimental) support for Tensorflow and FFCV.

Installation

Once you have FFCV setup it's simply:

pip install tf-ffcv

Usage example

To demonstrate how to use it we will use the cifar example of the main FFCV repository.

First make sure that you either import tensorflow or at least tf_ffcv before ffcv

import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.keras import datasets, layers, models
import torch as ch
from tf_ffcv import FFCVKerasSequence, ToTFImage

Now we reuse the the function make_dataloaders from our CIFAR example. Our only change is to add ToTFImage() in the pipeline.

....
image_pipeline.extend([
    ToTensor(),
    ToDevice('cuda:0', non_blocking=True),
    ToTorchImage(),
    Convert(ch.float16),
    torchvision.transforms.Normalize(CIFAR_MEAN, CIFAR_STD),
    ToTFImage()  #  <===================
])
....

We create our Keras model as usual:

model = models.Sequential()
model.add(layers.Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation='relu', input_shape=(32, 32, 3)))
model.add(layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2)))
model.add(layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(layers.MaxPooling2D((2, 2)))
model.add(layers.Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu'))
model.add(layers.Flatten())
model.add(layers.Dense(64, activation='relu'))
model.add(layers.Dense(10))
model.compile(optimizer='adam',
              loss=tf.keras.losses.SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(from_logits=True),
              metrics=['accuracy'])

And wrap FFCV loaders using FFCVKerasSequence

loaders = make_dataloaders()
dl = FFCVKerasSequence(loaders['train'])
dl_test = FFCVKerasSequence(loaders['test'])

These two dataset can be use to train/validate like any Keras one!

history = model.fit_generator(dl, epochs=10)
model.evaluate(dl_test)