Converting Pytorch model .pth into onnx model

Question

I have one pre-trained model into format of .pth extension. I want to convert that into Tensorflow protobuf. But I am not finding any way to do that. I have seen onnx can convert models from pytorch into onnx and then from onnx to Tensorflow. But with that approach I got following error in the first stage of conversion.

from torch.autograd import Variable
import torch.onnx
import torchvision
import torch 

dummy_input = Variable(torch.randn(1, 3, 256, 256))
model = torch.load('./my_model.pth')
torch.onnx.export(model, dummy_input, "moment-in-time.onnx")`

It gives error like this.

File "t.py", line 9, in <module>
    torch.onnx.export(model, dummy_input, "moment-in-time.onnx")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/torch/onnx/__init__.py", line 75, in export
    _export(model, args, f, export_params, verbose, training)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/torch/onnx/__init__.py", line 108, in _export
    orig_state_dict_keys = model.state_dict().keys()
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'state_dict'

What is possible solution ?

Answer 1

try changing your code to this

from torch.autograd import Variable

import torch.onnx
import torchvision
import torch

dummy_input = Variable(torch.randn(1, 3, 256, 256))
state_dict = torch.load('./my_model.pth')
model.load_state_dict(state_dict)
torch.onnx.export(model, dummy_input, "moment-in-time.onnx")

Answer 2

That means your model is not a subclass of the torch.nn.Modules class. If you make it a subclass, this should work.

Answer 3

The problem here is you are loading the weights of the model, But you need the architechture of your model here as well, for example if you are using mobilenet:

import torch
import torchvision.models as models

model=models.mobilenet_v3_large(weights)#Give your weights here
torch.onnx.export(model, torch.rand(1,3,640,640), "MobilenetV3.onnx")

For more refer this : https://pytorch.org/tutorials/recipes/recipes/saving_and_loading_models_for_inference.html