Deprecate use_batchnorm in favor of generalized use_norm parameter

segmentation_models_pytorch/base/modules.py

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import warnings
+
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 
@@ -16,11 +18,53 @@
         padding=0,
         stride=1,
         use_batchnorm=True,
+        use_norm="batchnorm",
     ):
-        if use_batchnorm == "inplace" and InPlaceABN is None:
+        if use_batchnorm is not None:
+            warnings.warn(
+                "The usage of use_batchnorm is deprecated. Please modify your code for use_norm",
+                DeprecationWarning,
+            )
+            if use_batchnorm is True:
+                use_norm = {"type": "batchnorm"}
+            elif use_batchnorm is False:
+                use_norm = {"type": "identity"}
+            elif use_batchnorm == "inplace":
+                use_norm = {
+                    "type": "inplace",
+                    "activation": "leaky_relu",
+                    "activation_param": 0.0,
+                }
+            else:
+                raise ValueError("Unrecognized value for use_batchnorm")
+
+        if isinstance(use_norm, str):
+            norm_str = use_norm.lower()
+            if norm_str == "inplace":
+                use_norm = {
+                    "type": "inplace",
+                    "activation": "leaky_relu",
+                    "activation_param": 0.0,
+                }
+            elif norm_str in (
+                "batchnorm",
+                "identity",
+                "layernorm",
+                "groupnorm",
+                "instancenorm",
+            ):
+                use_norm = {"type": norm_str}
+            else:
+                raise ValueError("Unrecognized normalization type string provided")
+        elif isinstance(use_norm, bool):
+            use_norm = {"type": "batchnorm" if use_norm else "identity"}
+        elif not isinstance(use_norm, dict):
+            raise ValueError("use_norm must be a dictionary, boolean, or string")
+
+        if use_norm["type"] == "inplace" and InPlaceABN is None:
             raise RuntimeError(
-                "In order to use `use_batchnorm='inplace'` inplace_abn package must be installed. "
-                + "To install see: https://github.com/mapillary/inplace_abn"
+                "In order to use `use_batchnorm='inplace'` or `use_norm='inplace'` the inplace_abn package must be installed. "
+                "To install see: https://github.com/mapillary/inplace_abn"
             )
 
         conv = nn.Conv2d(
@@ -29,21 +73,30 @@
             kernel_size,
             stride=stride,
             padding=padding,
-            bias=not (use_batchnorm),
+            bias=use_norm["type"] != "inplace",
         )
         relu = nn.ReLU(inplace=True)
 
-        if use_batchnorm == "inplace":
-            bn = InPlaceABN(out_channels, activation="leaky_relu", activation_param=0.0)
-            relu = nn.Identity()
-
-        elif use_batchnorm and use_batchnorm != "inplace":
-            bn = nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels)
+        norm_type = use_norm["type"]
+        extra_kwargs = {k: v for k, v in use_norm.items() if k != "type"}
 
+        if norm_type == "inplace":
+            norm = InPlaceABN(out_channels, **extra_kwargs)
+            relu = nn.Identity()
+        elif norm_type == "batchnorm":
+            norm = nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels, **extra_kwargs)
+        elif norm_type == "identity":
+            norm = nn.Identity()
+        elif norm_type == "layernorm":
+            norm = nn.LayerNorm(out_channels, **extra_kwargs)
+        elif norm_type == "groupnorm":
+            norm = nn.GroupNorm(out_channels, **extra_kwargs)
+        elif norm_type == "instancenorm":
+            norm = nn.InstanceNorm2d(out_channels, **extra_kwargs)
         else:
-            bn = nn.Identity()
+            raise ValueError(f"Unrecognized normalization type: {norm_type}")
 
-        super(Conv2dReLU, self).__init__(conv, bn, relu)
+        super(Conv2dReLU, self).__init__(conv, norm, relu)
 
 
 class SCSEModule(nn.Module):
@@ -127,3 +180,9 @@
 
     def forward(self, x):
         return self.attention(x)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    print(Conv2dReLU(3, 12, 4))
+    print(Conv2dReLU(3, 12, 4, use_norm={"type": "batchnorm"}))
+    print(Conv2dReLU(3, 12, 4, use_norm={"type": "layernorm", "eps": 1e-3}))

segmentation_models_pytorch/decoders/linknet/decoder.py

@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 
-from typing import List, Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
 from segmentation_models_pytorch.base import modules
 
 
 class TransposeX2(nn.Sequential):
-    def __init__(self, in_channels: int, out_channels: int, use_batchnorm: bool = True):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int,
+        out_channels: int,
+        use_batchnorm: Union[bool, str, None] = True,
+        use_norm: Union[bool, str, Dict[str, Any]] = True,
+    ):
         super().__init__()
         layers = [
             nn.ConvTranspose2d(
@@ -15,14 +21,20 @@ def __init__(self, in_channels: int, out_channels: int, use_batchnorm: bool = Tr
             nn.ReLU(inplace=True),
         ]
 
-        if use_batchnorm:
+        if use_batchnorm or use_norm:
             layers.insert(1, nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels))
 
         super().__init__(*layers)
 
 
 class DecoderBlock(nn.Module):
-    def __init__(self, in_channels: int, out_channels: int, use_batchnorm: bool = True):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int,
+        out_channels: int,
+        use_batchnorm: Union[bool, str, None] = True,
+        use_norm: Union[bool, str, Dict[str, Any]] = True,
+    ):
         super().__init__()
 
         self.block = nn.Sequential(
@@ -31,6 +43,7 @@ def __init__(self, in_channels: int, out_channels: int, use_batchnorm: bool = Tr
                 in_channels // 4,
                 kernel_size=1,
                 use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+                use_norm=use_norm,
             ),
             TransposeX2(
                 in_channels // 4, in_channels // 4, use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm
@@ -40,6 +53,7 @@ def __init__(self, in_channels: int, out_channels: int, use_batchnorm: bool = Tr
                 out_channels,
                 kernel_size=1,
                 use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+                use_norm=use_norm,
             ),
         )
 
@@ -58,7 +72,8 @@ def __init__(
         encoder_channels: List[int],
         prefinal_channels: int = 32,
         n_blocks: int = 5,
-        use_batchnorm: bool = True,
+        use_batchnorm: Union[bool, str, None] = True,
+        use_norm: Union[bool, str, Dict[str, Any]] = True,
     ):
         super().__init__()
 
@@ -71,7 +86,12 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.blocks = nn.ModuleList(
             [
-                DecoderBlock(channels[i], channels[i + 1], use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm)
+                DecoderBlock(
+                    channels[i],
+                    channels[i + 1],
+                    use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+                    use_norm=use_norm,
+                )
                 for i in range(n_blocks)
             ]
         )

segmentation_models_pytorch/decoders/linknet/model.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import Any, Optional, Union
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Union
 
 from segmentation_models_pytorch.base import (
     ClassificationHead,
@@ -29,9 +29,27 @@ class Linknet(SegmentationModel):
             Default is 5
         encoder_weights: One of **None** (random initialization), **"imagenet"** (pre-training on ImageNet) and
             other pretrained weights (see table with available weights for each encoder_name)
-        decoder_use_batchnorm: If **True**, BatchNorm2d layer between Conv2D and Activation layers
+        decoder_use_batchnorm: (**Deprecated**) If **True**, BatchNorm2d layer between Conv2D and Activation layers
             is used. If **"inplace"** InplaceABN will be used, allows to decrease memory consumption.
             Available options are **True, False, "inplace"**
+
+            **Note:** Deprecated, prefer using `decoder_use_norm` and set this to None.
+        decoder_use_norm:     Specifies normalization between Conv2D and activation.
+            Accepts the following types:
+            - **True**: Defaults to `"batchnorm"`.
+            - **False**: No normalization (`nn.Identity`).
+            - **str**: Specifies normalization type using default parameters. Available values:
+              `"batchnorm"`, `"identity"`, `"layernorm"`, `"groupnorm"`, `"instancenorm"`, `"inplace"`.
+            - **dict**: Fully customizable normalization settings. Structure:
+              ```python
+              {"type": <norm_type>, **kwargs}
+              ```
+              where `norm_name` corresponds to normalization type (see above), and `kwargs` are passed directly to the normalization layer as defined in PyTorch documentation.
+
+            **Example**:
+            ```python
+            use_norm={"type": "groupnorm", "num_groups": 8}
+            ```
         in_channels: A number of input channels for the model, default is 3 (RGB images)
         classes: A number of classes for output mask (or you can think as a number of channels of output mask)
         activation: An activation function to apply after the final convolution layer.
@@ -60,7 +78,8 @@ def __init__(
         encoder_name: str = "resnet34",
         encoder_depth: int = 5,
         encoder_weights: Optional[str] = "imagenet",
-        decoder_use_batchnorm: bool = True,
+        decoder_use_batchnorm: Union[bool, str, None] = True,
+        decoder_use_norm: Union[bool, str, Dict[str, Any]] = True,
         in_channels: int = 3,
         classes: int = 1,
         activation: Optional[Union[str, callable]] = None,
@@ -87,6 +106,7 @@ def __init__(
             n_blocks=encoder_depth,
             prefinal_channels=32,
             use_batchnorm=decoder_use_batchnorm,
+            use_norm=decoder_use_norm,
         )
 
         self.segmentation_head = SegmentationHead(

segmentation_models_pytorch/decoders/manet/decoder.py

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
+
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 
-from typing import List, Optional
-
 from segmentation_models_pytorch.base import modules as md
 
 
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ def __init__(
         in_channels: int,
         skip_channels: int,
         out_channels: int,
-        use_batchnorm: bool = True,
+        use_batchnorm: Union[bool, str, None] = True,
+        use_norm: Union[bool, str, Dict[str, Any]] = True,
         reduction: int = 16,
     ):
         # MFABBlock is just a modified version of SE-blocks, one for skip, one for input
@@ -61,9 +62,14 @@ def __init__(
                 kernel_size=3,
                 padding=1,
                 use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+                use_norm=use_norm,
             ),
             md.Conv2dReLU(
-                in_channels, skip_channels, kernel_size=1, use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm
+                in_channels,
+                skip_channels,
+                kernel_size=1,
+                use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+                use_norm=use_norm,
             ),
         )
         reduced_channels = max(1, skip_channels // reduction)
@@ -88,13 +94,15 @@ def __init__(
             kernel_size=3,
             padding=1,
             use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+            use_norm=use_norm,
         )
         self.conv2 = md.Conv2dReLU(
             out_channels,
             out_channels,
             kernel_size=3,
             padding=1,
             use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+            use_norm=use_norm,
         )
 
     def forward(
@@ -119,7 +127,8 @@ def __init__(
         in_channels: int,
         skip_channels: int,
         out_channels: int,
-        use_batchnorm: bool = True,
+        use_batchnorm: Union[bool, str, None] = True,
+        use_norm: Union[bool, str, Dict[str, Any]] = True,
     ):
         super().__init__()
         self.conv1 = md.Conv2dReLU(
@@ -128,13 +137,15 @@ def __init__(
             kernel_size=3,
             padding=1,
             use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+            use_norm=use_norm,
         )
         self.conv2 = md.Conv2dReLU(
             out_channels,
             out_channels,
             kernel_size=3,
             padding=1,
             use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm,
+            use_norm=use_norm,
         )
 
     def forward(
@@ -155,7 +166,8 @@ def __init__(
         decoder_channels: List[int],
         n_blocks: int = 5,
         reduction: int = 16,
-        use_batchnorm: bool = True,
+        use_batchnorm: Union[bool, str, None] = True,
+        use_norm: Union[bool, str, Dict[str, Any]] = True,
         pab_channels: int = 64,
     ):
         super().__init__()
@@ -182,7 +194,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.center = PABBlock(head_channels, pab_channels=pab_channels)
 
         # combine decoder keyword arguments
-        kwargs = dict(use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm)  # no attention type here
+        kwargs = dict(
+            use_batchnorm=use_batchnorm, use_norm=use_norm
+        )  # no attention type here
         blocks = [
             MFABBlock(in_ch, skip_ch, out_ch, reduction=reduction, **kwargs)
             if skip_ch > 0