Visualize activation layer

username: Levis
cooked: <p>Hi everyone !</p>
<p>I was wondering, how do I extract output layers to visualize the result of each activation layer and to see how it learns ?</p>
<p>I was thinking about maybe in the  <code>class UnetDecoder</code>  return values of the forward function, but can’t really see then.</p>
<pre><code class="lang-auto">import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F

from ..base import modules as md


class DecoderBlock(nn.Module):
    def __init__(
            self,
            in_channels,
            skip_channels,
            out_channels,
            use_batchnorm=True,
            attention_type=None,
    ):
        super().__init__()
        self.conv1 = md.Conv2dReLU(
            in_channels + skip_channels,
            out_channels,
            kernel_size=3,
            padding=1,
            use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
        )
        self.attention1 = md.Attention(attention_type, in_channels=in_channels + skip_channels)
        self.conv2 = md.Conv2dReLU(
            out_channels,
            out_channels,
            kernel_size=3,
            padding=1,
            use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
        )
        self.attention2 = md.Attention(attention_type, in_channels=out_channels)

    def forward(self, x, skip=None):
        x = F.interpolate(x, scale_factor=2, mode="nearest")
        if skip is not None:
            x = torch.cat([x, skip], dim=1)
            x = self.attention1(x)
        x = self.conv1(x)
        x = self.conv2(x)
        x = self.attention2(x)
        return x


class CenterBlock(nn.Sequential):
    def __init__(self, in_channels, out_channels, use_batchnorm=True):
        conv1 = md.Conv2dReLU(
            in_channels,
            out_channels,
            kernel_size=3,
            padding=1,
            use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
        )
        conv2 = md.Conv2dReLU(
            out_channels,
            out_channels,
            kernel_size=3,
            padding=1,
            use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
        )
        super().__init__(conv1, conv2)


class UnetDecoder(nn.Module):
    def __init__(
            self,
            encoder_channels,
            decoder_channels,
            n_blocks=5,
            use_batchnorm=True,
            attention_type=None,
            center=False,
    ):
        super().__init__()

        if n_blocks != len(decoder_channels):
            raise ValueError(
                "Model depth is {}, but you provide `decoder_channels` for {} blocks.".format(
                    n_blocks, len(decoder_channels)
                )
            )

        encoder_channels = encoder_channels[1:]  # remove first skip with same spatial resolution
        encoder_channels = encoder_channels[::-1]  # reverse channels to start from head of encoder

        # computing blocks input and output channels
        head_channels = encoder_channels[0]
        in_channels = [head_channels] + list(decoder_channels[:-1])
        skip_channels = list(encoder_channels[1:]) + [0]
        out_channels = decoder_channels

        if center:
            self.center = CenterBlock(
                head_channels, head_channels, use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm
            )
        else:
            self.center = nn.Identity()

        # combine decoder keyword arguments
        kwargs = dict(use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm, attention_type=attention_type)
        blocks = [
            DecoderBlock(in_ch, skip_ch, out_ch, **kwargs)
            for in_ch, skip_ch, out_ch in zip(in_channels, skip_channels, out_channels)
        ]
        self.blocks = nn.ModuleList(blocks)

    def forward(self, *features):

        features = features[1:]    # remove first skip with same spatial resolution
        features = features[::-1]  # reverse channels to start from head of encoder

        head = features[0]
        skips = features[1:]

        x = self.center(head)
        for i, decoder_block in enumerate(self.blocks):
            skip = skips[i] if i &lt; len(skips) else None
            x = decoder_block(x, skip)

        return x
</code></pre>

username: ptrblck
cooked: <p>You could use forward hooks to grab all activations from all layers and visualize it afterwards as described <a href="https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/visualize-feature-map/29597/2">here</a>.<br>
Let me know, if that would work for you.</p>