MobileNetV2 is tuned to mobile phone CPUs through a combination of hardware- aware network architecture search (NAS) complemented by the NetAdapt algorithm and then subsequently improved through novel architecture advances.Nov 20, 2019.
[Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.02244) Howard, Andrew, Mark Sandler, Grace Chu, Liang-Chieh Chen, Bo Chen, Mingxing Tan, Weijun Wang et al. "Searching for MobileNetV2." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 1314-1324. 2019.
The [mixed precision](https://www.mindspore.cn/tutorial/zh-CN/master/advanced_use/mixed_precision.html) training method accelerates the deep learning neural network training process by using both the single-precision and half-precision data formats, and maintains the network precision achieved by the single-precision training at the same time. Mixed precision training can accelerate the computation process, reduce memory usage, and enable a larger model or batch size to be trained on specific hardware.
For FP16 operators, if the input data type is FP32, the backend of MindSpore will automatically handle it with reduced precision. Users could check the reduced-precision operators by enabling INFO log and then searching ‘reduce precision’.
- Prepare hardware environment with Ascend. If you want to try Ascend , please send the [application form](https://obs-9be7.obs.cn-east-2.myhuaweicloud.com/file/other/Ascend%20Model%20Zoo%E4%BD%93%E9%AA%8C%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90%E7%94%B3%E8%AF%B7%E8%A1%A8.docx) to ascend@huawei.com. Once approved, you can get the resources.
Training result will be stored in the example path. Checkpoints trained by `Ascend` will be stored at `./train/device$i/checkpoint` by default, and training log will be redirected to `./train/device$i/train.log`. Checkpoints trained by `GPU` will be stored in `./train/checkpointckpt_$i` by default, and training log will be redirected to `./train/train.log`.
