The code trains a Faster R-CNN object detection model using PyTorch and tracks the training progress with Weights & Biases. It includes the following steps:
- Parse command-line arguments using the argparse library.
- Initialize a Weights & Biases project and set configuration parameters based on the command-line arguments.
- If multiple GPUs are available, initialize a distributed training environment using the torch.distributed library.
- Load and split a dataset of images and annotations into training and test sets using custom functions create_datasets() and create_dataloaders().
- Define a Faster R-CNN model using a custom function get_faster_rcnn_model().
- Wrap the model with DistributedDataParallel if multiple GPUs are available or with DataParallel otherwise, to perform data parallelism during training.
- Set the optimizer and loop through the number of epochs specified in the command-line arguments.
- In each epoch, train the model using train_one_epoch() function and calculate the training loss. Log the epoch number and training loss using Weights & Biases.
- Evaluate the model on the test set using the evaluate() function.
- Save the trained model to a specified directory using a custom function save_model().
- Clean up the distributed training environment if multiple GPUs are available.