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Backbone

A backbone is a model used for feature extraction for higher level computer vision tasks such as object detection and image classification. Transformers provides an [AutoBackbone] class for initializing a Transformers backbone from pretrained model weights, and two utility classes:

  • [~backbone_utils.BackboneMixin] enables initializing a backbone from Transformers or timm and includes functions for returning the output features and indices.
  • [~backbone_utils.BackboneConfigMixin] sets the output features and indices of the backbone configuration.

timm models are loaded with the [TimmBackbone] and [TimmBackboneConfig] classes.

Backbones are supported for the following models:

AutoBackbone

autodoc AutoBackbone

BackboneMixin

autodoc backbone_utils.BackboneMixin

BackboneConfigMixin

autodoc backbone_utils.BackboneConfigMixin

TimmBackbone

autodoc models.timm_backbone.TimmBackbone

TimmBackboneConfig

autodoc models.timm_backbone.TimmBackboneConfig