论文链接：
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12524
代码链接：
https://github.com/sunsmarterjie/yolov12
长期以来，增强YOLO框架的网络架构一直至关重要，但一直专注于基于cnn的改进，尽管注意力机制在建模能力方面已被证明具有优越性。这是因为基于注意力的模型无法匹配基于cnn的模型的速度。本文提出了一种以注意力为中心的YOLO框架，即YOLOv12，与之前基于cnn的YOLO框架的速度相匹配，同时利用了注意力机制的性能优势。YOLOv12在精度和速度方面超越了所有流行的实时目标检测器。例如，YOLOv12-N在T4 GPU上以1.64ms的推理延迟实现了40.6% mAP，以相当的速度超过了高级的YOLOv10-N / YOLOv11-N 2.1%/1.2% mAP。这种优势可以扩展到其他模型规模。YOLOv12还超越了改善DETR的端到端实时检测器，如RT-DETR /RT-DETRv2: YOLOv12- s比RT-DETR- r18 / RT-DETRv2-r18运行更快42%，仅使用36%的计算和45%的参数。
总结：作者围提出YOLOv12目标检测模型，测试结果更快、更强，围绕注意力机制进行创新。
一、创新点总结
作者构建了一个以注意力为核心构建了YOLOv12检测模型，主要创新点创新点如下：
1、提出一种简单有效的区域注意力机制（area-attention）。
2、提出一种高效的聚合网络结构R-ELAN。
作者提出的area-attention代码如下：
class AAttn(nn.Module): """ Area-attention module with the requirement of flash attention. Attributes: dim (int): Number of hidden channels; num_heads (int): Number of heads into which the attention mechanism is divided; area (int, optional): Number of areas the feature map is divided. Defaults to 1. Methods: forward: Performs a forward process of input tensor and outputs a tensor after the execution of the area attention mechanism. Examples: >>> import torch >>> from ultralytics.nn.modules import AAttn >>> model = AAttn(dim=64, num_heads=2, area=4) >>> x = torch.randn(2, 64, 128, 128) >>> output = model(x) >>> print(output.shape)
Notes: recommend that dim//num_heads be a multiple of 32 or 64. """
def __init__(self, dim, num_heads, area=1): """Initializes the area-attention module, a simple yet efficient attention module for YOLO.""" super().__init__() self.area = area
self.num_heads = num_heads self.head_dim = head_dim = dim // num_heads all_head_dim = head_dim * self.num_heads
self.qkv = Conv(dim, all_head_dim * 3, 1, act=False) self.proj = Conv(all_head_dim, dim, 1, act=False) self.pe = Conv(all_head_dim, dim, 7, 1, 3, g=dim, act=False)
def forward(self, x): """Processes the input tensor 'x' through the area-attention""" B, C, H, W = x.shape N = H * W
qkv = self.qkv(x).flatten(2).transpose(1, 2) if self.area > 1: qkv = qkv.reshape(B * self.area, N // self.area, C * 3) B, N, _ = qkv.shape q, k, v = qkv.view(B, N, self.num_heads, self.head_dim * 3).split( [self.head_dim, self.head_dim, self.head_dim], dim=3 )
q = q.permute(0, 2, 3, 1) k = k.permute(0, 2, 3, 1) v = v.permute(0, 2, 3, 1) attn = (q.transpose(-2, -1) @ k) * (self.head_dim ** -0.5) max_attn = attn.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values exp_attn = torch.exp(attn - max_attn) attn = exp_attn / exp_attn.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) x = (v @ attn.transpose(-2, -1)) x = x.permute(0, 3, 1, 2) v = v.permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
if self.area > 1: x = x.reshape(B // self.area, N * self.area, C) v = v.reshape(B // self.area, N * self.area, C) B, N, _ = x.shape
x = x.reshape(B, H, W, C).permute(0, 3, 1, 2) v = v.reshape(B, H, W, C).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
x = x + self.pe(v) x = self.proj(x) return x
结构上与YOLOv11里C2PSA中的模式相似，使用了Flash-attn进行运算加速。Flash-attn安装时需要找到与cuda、torch和python解释器对应的版本，Windows用户可用上述代码替换官方代码的AAttn代码，无需安装Flash-attn。
R-ELAN结构如下图所示：
作者基于该结构构建了A2C2f模块，与C2f/C3K2模块结构类似，代码如下：
class AAttn(nn.Module): """ Area-attention module with the requirement of flash attention. Attributes: dim (int): Number of hidden channels; num_heads (int): Number of heads into which the attention mechanism is divided; area (int, optional): Number of areas the feature map is divided. Defaults to 1. Methods: forward: Performs a forward process of input tensor and outputs a tensor after the execution of the area attention mechanism. Examples: >>> import torch >>> from ultralytics.nn.modules import AAttn >>> model = AAttn(dim=64, num_heads=2, area=4) >>> x = torch.randn(2, 64, 128, 128) >>> output = model(x) >>> print(output.shape)
Notes: recommend that dim//num_heads be a multiple of 32 or 64. """
def __init__(self, dim, num_heads, area=1): """Initializes the area-attention module, a simple yet efficient attention module for YOLO.""" super().__init__() self.area = area
self.num_heads = num_heads self.head_dim = head_dim = dim // num_heads all_head_dim = head_dim * self.num_heads
self.qkv = Conv(dim, all_head_dim * 3, 1, act=False) self.proj = Conv(all_head_dim, dim, 1, act=False) self.pe = Conv(all_head_dim, dim, 7, 1, 3, g=dim, act=False)
def forward(self, x): """Processes the input tensor 'x' through the area-attention""" B, C, H, W = x.shape N = H * W
qkv = self.qkv(x).flatten(2).transpose(1, 2) if self.area > 1: qkv = qkv.reshape(B * self.area, N // self.area, C * 3) B, N, _ = qkv.shape q, k, v = qkv.view(B, N, self.num_heads, self.head_dim * 3).split( [self.head_dim, self.head_dim, self.head_dim], dim=3 )
q = q.permute(0, 2, 3, 1) k = k.permute(0, 2, 3, 1) v = v.permute(0, 2, 3, 1) attn = (q.transpose(-2, -1) @ k) * (self.head_dim ** -0.5) max_attn = attn.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values exp_attn = torch.exp(attn - max_attn) attn = exp_attn / exp_attn.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) x = (v @ attn.transpose(-2, -1)) x = x.permute(0, 3, 1, 2) v = v.permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
if self.area > 1: x = x.reshape(B // self.area, N * self.area, C) v = v.reshape(B // self.area, N * self.area, C) B, N, _ = x.shape
x = x.reshape(B, H, W, C).permute(0, 3, 1, 2) v = v.reshape(B, H, W, C).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
x = x + self.pe(v) x = self.proj(x) return x
class ABlock(nn.Module): """ ABlock class implementing a Area-Attention block with effective feature extraction. This class encapsulates the functionality for applying multi-head attention with feature map are dividing into areas and feed-forward neural network layers. Attributes: dim (int): Number of hidden channels; num_heads (int): Number of heads into which the attention mechanism is divided; mlp_ratio (float, optional): MLP expansion ratio (or MLP hidden dimension ratio). Defaults to 1.2; area (int, optional): Number of areas the feature map is divided. Defaults to 1. Methods: forward: Performs a forward pass through the ABlock, applying area-attention and feed-forward layers. Examples: Create a ABlock and perform a forward pass >>> model = ABlock(dim=64, num_heads=2, mlp_ratio=1.2, area=4) >>> x = torch.randn(2, 64, 128, 128) >>> output = model(x) >>> print(output.shape)
Notes: recommend that dim//num_heads be a multiple of 32 or 64. """
def __init__(self, dim, num_heads, mlp_ratio=1.2, area=1): """Initializes the ABlock with area-attention and feed-forward layers for faster feature extraction.""" super().__init__()
self.attn = AAttn(dim, num_heads=num_heads, area=area) mlp_hidden_dim = int(dim * mlp_ratio) self.mlp = nn.Sequential(Conv(dim, mlp_hidden_dim, 1), Conv(mlp_hidden_dim, dim, 1, act=False))
self.apply(self._init_weights)
def _init_weights(self, m): """Initialize weights using a truncated normal distribution.""" if isinstance(m, nn.Conv2d): trunc_normal_(m.weight, std=.02) if isinstance(m, nn.Conv2d) and m.bias is not None: nn.init.constant_(m.bias, 0)
def forward(self, x): """Executes a forward pass through ABlock, applying area-attention and feed-forward layers to the input tensor.""" x = x + self.attn(x) x = x + self.mlp(x) return x
class A2C2f(nn.Module): """ A2C2f module with residual enhanced feature extraction using ABlock blocks with area-attention. Also known as R-ELAN This class extends the C2f module by incorporating ABlock blocks for fast attention mechanisms and feature extraction. Attributes: c1 (int): Number of input channels; c2 (int): Number of output channels; n (int, optional): Number of 2xABlock modules to stack. Defaults to 1; a2 (bool, optional): Whether use area-attention. Defaults to True; area (int, optional): Number of areas the feature map is divided. Defaults to 1; residual (bool, optional): Whether use the residual (with layer scale). Defaults to False; mlp_ratio (float, optional): MLP expansion ratio (or MLP hidden dimension ratio). Defaults to 1.2;
