## Optional parameter list The following list can be viewed through `--help` | FLAG | Supported script | Use | Defaults | Note | | :----------------------: | :------------: | :---------------: | :--------------: | :-----------------: | | -c | ALL | Specify configuration file to use | None | **Please refer to the parameter introduction for configuration file usage** | | -o | ALL | set configuration options | None | Configuration using -o has higher priority than the configuration file selected with -c. E.g: -o Global.use_gpu=false | ## INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL PARAMETERS OF CONFIGURATION FILE Take rec_chinese_lite_train_v2.0.yml as an example ### Global | Parameter | Use | Defaults | Note | | :----------------------: | :---------------------: | :--------------: | :--------------------: | | use_gpu | Set using GPU or not | true | \ | | epoch_num | Maximum training epoch number | 500 | \ | | log_smooth_window | Log queue length, the median value in the queue each time will be printed | 20 | \ | | print_batch_step | Set print log interval | 10 | \ | | save_model_dir | Set model save path | output/{算法名称} | \ | | save_epoch_step | Set model save interval | 3 | \ | | eval_batch_step | Set the model evaluation interval | 2000 or [1000, 2000] | runing evaluation every 2000 iters or evaluation is run every 2000 iterations after the 1000th iteration | | cal_metric_during_train | Set whether to evaluate the metric during the training process. At this time, the metric of the model under the current batch is evaluated | true | \ | | load_static_weights | Set whether the pre-training model is saved in static graph mode (currently only required by the detection algorithm) | true | \ | | pretrained_model | Set the path of the pre-trained model | ./pretrain_models/CRNN/best_accuracy | \ | | checkpoints | set model parameter path | None | Used to load parameters after interruption to continue training| | use_visualdl | Set whether to enable visualdl for visual log display | False | [Tutorial](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/paddle/visualdl) | | infer_img | Set inference image path or folder path | ./infer_img | \| | character_dict_path | Set dictionary path | ./ppocr/utils/ppocr_keys_v1.txt | \ | | max_text_length | Set the maximum length of text | 25 | \ | | character_type | Set character type | ch | en/ch, the default dict will be used for en, and the custom dict will be used for ch | | use_space_char | Set whether to recognize spaces | True | Only support in character_type=ch mode | | label_list | Set the angle supported by the direction classifier | ['0','180'] | Only valid in angle classifier model | | save_res_path | Set the save address of the test model results | ./output/det_db/predicts_db.txt | Only valid in the text detection model | ### Optimizer ([ppocr/optimizer](../../ppocr/optimizer)) | Parameter | Use | Defaults | Note | | :---------------------: | :---------------------: | :--------------: | :--------------------: | | name | Optimizer class name | Adam | Currently supports`Momentum`,`Adam`,`RMSProp`, see [ppocr/optimizer/optimizer.py](../../ppocr/optimizer/optimizer.py) | | beta1 | Set the exponential decay rate for the 1st moment estimates | 0.9 | \ | | beta2 | Set the exponential decay rate for the 2nd moment estimates | 0.999 | \ | | clip_norm | The maximum norm value | - | \ | | **lr** | Set the learning rate decay method | - | \ | | name | Learning rate decay class name | Cosine | Currently supports`Linear`,`Cosine`,`Step`,`Piecewise`, see[ppocr/optimizer/learning_rate.py](../../ppocr/optimizer/learning_rate.py) | | learning_rate | Set the base learning rate | 0.001 | \ | | **regularizer** | Set network regularization method | - | \ | | name | Regularizer class name | L2 | Currently support`L1`,`L2`, see[ppocr/optimizer/regularizer.py](../../ppocr/optimizer/regularizer.py) | | factor | Learning rate decay coefficient | 0.00004 | \ | ### Architecture ([ppocr/modeling](../../ppocr/modeling)) In ppocr, the network is divided into four stages: Transform, Backbone, Neck and Head | Parameter | Use | Defaults | Note | | :---------------------: | :---------------------: | :--------------: | :--------------------: | | model_type | Network Type | rec | Currently support`rec`,`det`,`cls` | | algorithm | Model name | CRNN | See [algorithm_overview](./algorithm_overview.md) for the support list | | **Transform** | Set the transformation method | - | Currently only recognition algorithms are supported, see [ppocr/modeling/transform](../../ppocr/modeling/transform) for details | | name | Transformation class name | TPS | Currently supports `TPS` | | num_fiducial | Number of TPS control points | 20 | Ten on the top and bottom | | loc_lr | Localization network learning rate | 0.1 | \ | | model_name | Localization network size | small | Currently support`small`,`large` | | **Backbone** | Set the network backbone class name | - | see [ppocr/modeling/backbones](../../ppocr/modeling/backbones) | | name | backbone class name | ResNet | Currently support`MobileNetV3`,`ResNet` | | layers | resnet layers | 34 | Currently support18,34,50,101,152,200 | | model_name | MobileNetV3 network size | small | Currently support`small`,`large` | | **Neck** | Set network neck | - | see[ppocr/modeling/necks](../../ppocr/modeling/necks) | | name | neck class name | SequenceEncoder | Currently support`SequenceEncoder`,`DBFPN` | | encoder_type | SequenceEncoder encoder type | rnn | Currently support`reshape`,`fc`,`rnn` | | hidden_size | rnn number of internal units | 48 | \ | | out_channels | Number of DBFPN output channels | 256 | \ | | **Head** | Set the network head | - | see[ppocr/modeling/heads](../../ppocr/modeling/heads) | | name | head class name | CTCHead | Currently support`CTCHead`,`DBHead`,`ClsHead` | | fc_decay | CTCHead regularization coefficient | 0.0004 | \ | | k | DBHead binarization coefficient | 50 | \ | | class_dim | ClsHead output category number | 2 | \ | ### Loss ([ppocr/losses](../../ppocr/losses)) | Parameter | Use | Defaults | Note | | :---------------------: | :---------------------: | :--------------: | :--------------------: | | name | loss class name | CTCLoss | Currently support`CTCLoss`,`DBLoss`,`ClsLoss` | | balance_loss | Whether to balance the number of positive and negative samples in DBLossloss (using OHEM) | True | \ | | ohem_ratio | The negative and positive sample ratio of OHEM in DBLossloss | 3 | \ | | main_loss_type | The loss used by shrink_map in DBLossloss | DiceLoss | Currently support`DiceLoss`,`BCELoss` | | alpha | The coefficient of shrink_map_loss in DBLossloss | 5 | \ | | beta | The coefficient of threshold_map_loss in DBLossloss | 10 | \ | ### PostProcess ([ppocr/postprocess](../../ppocr/postprocess)) | Parameter | Use | Defaults | Note | | :---------------------: | :---------------------: | :--------------: | :--------------------: | | name | Post-processing class name | CTCLabelDecode | Currently support`CTCLoss`,`AttnLabelDecode`,`DBPostProcess`,`ClsPostProcess` | | thresh | The threshold for binarization of the segmentation map in DBPostProcess | 0.3 | \ | | box_thresh | The threshold for filtering output boxes in DBPostProcess. Boxes below this threshold will not be output | 0.7 | \ | | max_candidates | The maximum number of text boxes output in DBPostProcess | 1000 | | | unclip_ratio | The unclip ratio of the text box in DBPostProcess | 2.0 | \ | ### Metric ([ppocr/metrics](../../ppocr/metrics)) | Parameter | Use | Defaults | Note | | :---------------------: | :---------------------: | :--------------: | :--------------------: | | name | Metric method name | CTCLabelDecode | Currently support`DetMetric`,`RecMetric`,`ClsMetric` | | main_indicator | Main indicators, used to select the best model | acc | For the detection method is hmean, the recognition and classification method is acc | ### Dataset ([ppocr/data](../../ppocr/data)) | Parameter | Use | Defaults | Note | | :---------------------: | :---------------------: | :--------------: | :--------------------: | | **dataset** | Return one sample per iteration | - | - | | name | dataset class name | SimpleDataSet | Currently support`SimpleDataSet`,`LMDBDateSet` | | data_dir | Image folder path | ./train_data | \ | | label_file_list | Groundtruth file path | ["./train_data/train_list.txt"] | This parameter is not required when dataset is LMDBDateSet | | ratio_list | Ratio of data set | [1.0] | If there are two train_lists in label_file_list and ratio_list is [0.4,0.6], 40% will be sampled from train_list1, and 60% will be sampled from train_list2 to combine the entire dataset | | transforms | List of methods to transform images and labels | [DecodeImage,CTCLabelEncode,RecResizeImg,KeepKeys] | see[ppocr/data/imaug](../../ppocr/data/imaug) | | **loader** | dataloader related | - | | | shuffle | Does each epoch disrupt the order of the data set | True | \ | | batch_size_per_card | Single card batch size during training | 256 | \ | | drop_last | Whether to discard the last incomplete mini-batch because the number of samples in the data set cannot be divisible by batch_size | True | \ | | num_workers | The number of sub-processes used to load data, if it is 0, the sub-process is not started, and the data is loaded in the main process | 8 | \ |