We want to make contributing to this project as easy and transparent as possible.
We appreciate all contributions. If you are interested in contributing to Torchvision, there are many ways to help out. Your contributions may fall into the following categories:
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It helps the project if you could
- Report issues you're facing
- Give a 👍 on issues that others reported and that are relevant to you
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Answering queries on the issue tracker, investigating bugs are very valuable contributions to the project.
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You would like to improve the documentation. This is no less important than improving the library itself! If you find a typo in the documentation, do not hesitate to submit a GitHub pull request.
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If you would like to fix a bug
- please pick one from the list of open issues labelled as "help wanted"
- comment on the issue that you want to work on this issue
- send a PR with your fix, see below.
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If you plan to contribute new features, utility functions or extensions, please first open an issue and discuss the feature with us.
We use GitHub issues to track public bugs. Please ensure your description is clear and has sufficient instructions to be able to reproduce the issue.
conda install pytorch -c pytorch-nightly
# or with pip (see https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/)
# pip install numpy
# pip install --pre torch -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu102/torch_nightly.html
git clone https://github.com/pytorch/vision.git
cd vision
python setup.py develop
# or, for OSX
# MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9 CC=clang CXX=clang++ python setup.py develop
# for C++ debugging, please use DEBUG=1
# DEBUG=1 python setup.py develop
pip install flake8 typing mypy pytest pytest-mock scipy
You may also have to install libpng-dev
and libjpeg-turbo8-dev
libraries:
conda install libpng jpeg
If you plan to modify the code or documentation, please follow the steps below:
- Fork the repository and create your branch from
main
. - If you have modified the code (new feature or bug-fix), please add unit tests.
- If you have changed APIs, update the documentation. Make sure the documentation builds.
- Ensure the test suite passes.
- Make sure your code passes the formatting checks (see below).
For more details about pull requests, please read GitHub's guides.
If you would like to contribute a new model, please see here.
If you would like to contribute a new dataset, please see here.
The torchvision code is formatted by black,
and checked against pep8 compliance with flake8.
Instead of relying directly on black
however, we rely on
ufmt, for compatibility reasons with Facebook
internal infrastructure.
To format your code, install ufmt
with pip install ufmt==1.3.2 black==22.3.0 usort==1.0.2
and use e.g.:
ufmt format torchvision
For the vast majority of cases, this is all you should need to run. For the
formatting to be a bit faster, you can also choose to only apply ufmt
to the
files that were edited in your PR with e.g.:
ufmt format `git diff main --name-only`
Similarly, you can check for flake8
errors with flake8 torchvision
, although
they should be fairly rare considering that most of the errors are automatically
taken care of by ufmt
already.
For convenience and purely optionally, you can rely on pre-commit
hooks which will run both ufmt
and flake8
prior to
every commit.
First install the pre-commit
package with pip install pre-commit
, and then
run pre-commit install
at the root of the repo for the hooks to be set up -
that's it.
Feel free to read the pre-commit docs to learn
more and improve your workflow. You'll see for example that pre-commit run --all-files
will run both ufmt
and flake8
without the need for you to
commit anything, and that the --no-verify
flag can be added to git commit
to
temporarily deactivate the hooks.
The codebase has type annotations, please make sure to add type hints if required. We use mypy
tool for type checking:
mypy --config-file mypy.ini
If you have modified the code by adding a new feature or a bug-fix, please add unit tests for that. To run a specific test:
pytest test/<test-module.py> -vvv -k <test_myfunc>
# e.g. pytest test/test_transforms.py -vvv -k test_center_crop
If you would like to run all tests:
pytest test -vvv
Tests that require internet access should be in
test/test_internet.py
.
Torchvision uses Google style for formatting docstrings. Length of line inside docstrings block must be limited to 120 characters.
Please, follow the instructions to build and deploy the documentation locally.
cd docs
pip install -r requirements.txt
cd docs
make html-noplot
Then open docs/build/html/index.html
in your favorite browser.
The docs are also automatically built when you submit a PR. The job that
builds the docs is named build_docs
. You can access the rendered docs by
clicking on that job and then going to the "Artifacts" tab.
You can clean the built docs and re-start the build from scratch by doing make clean
.
In most cases, running make html-noplot
is enough to build the docs for your
specific use-case. The noplot
part tells sphinx not to build the examples
in the gallery,
which saves a lot of building time.
If you need to build all the examples in the gallery, then you can use make html
.
You can also choose to only build a subset of the examples by using the
EXAMPLES_PATTERN
env variable, which accepts a regular expression. For
example EXAMPLES_PATTERN="transforms" make html
will only build the examples
with "transforms" in their name.
Please refer to the guidelines in Contributing to Torchvision - Models.
More details on how to add a new dataset will be provided later. Please, do not send any PR with a new dataset without discussing it in an issue as, most likely, it will not be accepted.
If all previous checks (flake8, mypy, unit tests) are passing, please send a PR. Submitted PR will pass other tests on different operation systems, python versions and hardwares.
For more details about pull requests workflow, please read GitHub's guides.
By contributing to Torchvision, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.