ConvNeXt
Code release for ConvNeXt model
...It revisits classic ResNet-style backbones through the lens of transformer design trends—large kernel sizes, inverted bottlenecks, layer normalization, and GELU activations—to bridge the performance gap between convolutions and attention-based models. ConvNeXt’s clean, hierarchical structure makes it efficient for both pretraining and fine-tuning across a wide range of visual recognition tasks. It achieves competitive or superior results on ImageNet and downstream datasets while being easier to deploy and train than transformers. The repository provides pretrained models, training recipes, and ablation studies demonstrating how incremental design choices collectively yield state-of-the-art performance.