"""MegaLoc: One Retrieval to Place Them All This module implements the MegaLoc model for visual place recognition. The model combines a Vision Transformer backbone with an optimal transport-based feature aggregation module. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17237 License: MIT """ import math from typing import Tuple import torch import torch.nn as nn import torch.nn.functional as F import torchvision.transforms.functional as tfm from huggingface_hub import PyTorchModelHubMixin # ============================================================================== # Optimal Transport Feature Aggregation # ============================================================================== # The following implements an optimal transport-based feature aggregation module # that converts local patch features into a compact global descriptor. # ============================================================================== def sinkhorn_log_iterations( source_log_weights: torch.Tensor, target_log_weights: torch.Tensor, cost_matrix: torch.Tensor, num_iterations: int = 20, regularization: float = 1.0, ) -> torch.Tensor: """Compute optimal transport plan using Sinkhorn iterations in log space. This implements the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm for computing the entropy-regularized optimal transport plan between two distributions. The log-space formulation provides numerical stability. Args: source_log_weights: Log of source distribution weights [batch, m+1] target_log_weights: Log of target distribution weights [batch, n] cost_matrix: Cost/score matrix [batch, m+1, n] num_iterations: Number of Sinkhorn iterations regularization: Entropy regularization strength Returns: Log of the transport plan matrix [batch, m+1, n] """ # Apply regularization scaling scaled_costs = cost_matrix / regularization # Initialize dual variables dual_source = torch.zeros_like(source_log_weights) dual_target = torch.zeros_like(target_log_weights) # Sinkhorn iterations: alternating row and column normalization for _ in range(num_iterations): # Row normalization (update source dual) dual_source = source_log_weights - torch.logsumexp(scaled_costs + dual_target.unsqueeze(1), dim=2).squeeze() # Column normalization (update target dual) dual_target = target_log_weights - torch.logsumexp(scaled_costs + dual_source.unsqueeze(2), dim=1).squeeze() # Compute final transport plan transport_plan = scaled_costs + dual_source.unsqueeze(2) + dual_target.unsqueeze(1) return transport_plan def compute_soft_assignments( affinity_scores: torch.Tensor, slack_logit: float = 1.0, num_iterations: int = 3, regularization: float = 1.0, ) -> torch.Tensor: """Compute soft cluster assignments using optimal transport with slack. Augments the affinity matrix with a slack row to handle unassigned features, then applies Sinkhorn normalization to get valid transport probabilities. Args: affinity_scores: Raw affinity scores [batch, num_clusters, num_patches] slack_logit: Initial logit value for the slack row num_iterations: Number of Sinkhorn iterations regularization: Entropy regularization strength Returns: Log-probabilities of assignments [batch, num_clusters+1, num_patches] """ batch_size, num_clusters, num_patches = affinity_scores.size() # Augment score matrix with slack row for handling outliers/unmatched augmented_scores = torch.empty( batch_size, num_clusters + 1, num_patches, dtype=affinity_scores.dtype, device=affinity_scores.device, ) augmented_scores[:, :num_clusters, :num_patches] = affinity_scores augmented_scores[:, num_clusters, :] = slack_logit # Prepare log-weights for source (clusters + slack) and target (patches) log_normalization = -torch.tensor(math.log(num_patches + num_clusters), device=affinity_scores.device) # Source weights: uniform over clusters, extra mass on slack source_log = log_normalization.expand(num_clusters + 1).contiguous() source_log = source_log.clone() source_log[-1] = source_log[-1] + math.log(num_patches - num_clusters) # Target weights: uniform over patches target_log = log_normalization.expand(num_patches).contiguous() # Expand to batch dimension source_log = source_log.expand(batch_size, -1) target_log = target_log.expand(batch_size, -1) # Solve optimal transport log_transport = sinkhorn_log_iterations( source_log, target_log, augmented_scores, num_iterations=num_iterations, regularization=regularization, ) return log_transport - log_normalization class FeatureAggregationHead(nn.Module): """Optimal transport-based aggregation of local features into global descriptor. This module learns to aggregate local patch features into a compact global representation using differentiable optimal transport. It produces: 1. A global scene token from the CLS token 2. Cluster-aggregated local descriptors weighted by transport probabilities The final descriptor is the L2-normalized concatenation of both components. Args: input_channels: Number of input feature channels (from backbone) num_clusters: Number of learned cluster centers cluster_channels: Dimensionality of each cluster descriptor global_token_dim: Dimensionality of the global scene token hidden_dim: Hidden dimension for MLPs dropout_rate: Dropout probability (0 to disable) """ def __init__( self, input_channels: int = 1536, num_clusters: int = 64, cluster_channels: int = 128, global_token_dim: int = 256, hidden_dim: int = 512, dropout_rate: float = 0.3, ) -> None: super().__init__() self.input_channels = input_channels self.num_clusters = num_clusters self.cluster_channels = cluster_channels self.global_token_dim = global_token_dim self.hidden_dim = hidden_dim # Dropout layer (or identity if disabled) regularization = nn.Dropout(dropout_rate) if dropout_rate > 0 else nn.Identity() # MLP to project CLS token to global scene descriptor self.global_token_mlp = nn.Sequential( nn.Linear(self.input_channels, self.hidden_dim), nn.ReLU(), nn.Linear(self.hidden_dim, self.global_token_dim), ) # Convolutional MLP to project patch features to cluster descriptors self.descriptor_projection = nn.Sequential( nn.Conv2d(self.input_channels, self.hidden_dim, 1), regularization, nn.ReLU(), nn.Conv2d(self.hidden_dim, self.cluster_channels, 1), ) # Convolutional MLP to compute cluster assignment logits self.assignment_head = nn.Sequential( nn.Conv2d(self.input_channels, self.hidden_dim, 1), regularization, nn.ReLU(), nn.Conv2d(self.hidden_dim, self.num_clusters, 1), ) # Learnable slack variable for optimal transport self.slack_variable = nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(1.0)) def forward(self, inputs): """Aggregate local and global features into compact descriptor. Args: inputs: Tuple of (patch_features, cls_token) - patch_features: [B, C, H, W] spatial feature map - cls_token: [B, C] global CLS token Returns: Global descriptor [B, num_clusters * cluster_channels + global_token_dim] """ patch_features, cls_token = inputs # Project patch features to cluster descriptors: [B, cluster_channels, H*W] local_descriptors = self.descriptor_projection(patch_features).flatten(2) # Compute assignment logits: [B, num_clusters, H*W] assignment_logits = self.assignment_head(patch_features).flatten(2) # Project CLS token to global descriptor: [B, global_token_dim] global_descriptor = self.global_token_mlp(cls_token) # Compute soft assignments via optimal transport log_assignments = compute_soft_assignments(assignment_logits, self.slack_variable, num_iterations=3) assignments = torch.exp(log_assignments) # Remove slack row (keep only cluster assignments) assignments = assignments[:, :-1, :] # Aggregate local descriptors weighted by assignments # assignments: [B, num_clusters, num_patches] # local_descriptors: [B, cluster_channels, num_patches] # We want: [B, cluster_channels, num_clusters] assignments = assignments.unsqueeze(1).repeat(1, self.cluster_channels, 1, 1) local_descriptors = local_descriptors.unsqueeze(2).repeat(1, 1, self.num_clusters, 1) # Weighted sum over patches for each cluster aggregated_clusters = (local_descriptors * assignments).sum(dim=-1) # Normalize and concatenate normalized_global = F.normalize(global_descriptor, p=2, dim=-1) normalized_local = F.normalize(aggregated_clusters, p=2, dim=1).flatten(1) combined = torch.cat([normalized_global, normalized_local], dim=-1) return F.normalize(combined, p=2, dim=-1) # ============================================================================== # Vision Transformer Components # ============================================================================== class PatchEmbedding(nn.Module): """Convert image patches to embeddings using a convolutional layer.""" def __init__( self, image_size: int = 518, patch_size: int = 14, in_channels: int = 3, embed_dim: int = 768, ): super().__init__() self.image_size = image_size self.patch_size = patch_size self.num_patches = (image_size // patch_size) ** 2 self.proj = nn.Conv2d(in_channels, embed_dim, kernel_size=patch_size, stride=patch_size) def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: # x: [B, C, H, W] -> [B, embed_dim, H/patch_size, W/patch_size] x = self.proj(x) # Flatten spatial dimensions: [B, embed_dim, num_patches] x = x.flatten(2) # Transpose to [B, num_patches, embed_dim] x = x.transpose(1, 2) return x class LayerScale(nn.Module): """Learnable per-channel scaling as used in CaiT and DINOv2.""" def __init__(self, dim: int, init_value: float = 1e-5): super().__init__() self.gamma = nn.Parameter(init_value * torch.ones(dim)) def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: return x * self.gamma class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module): """Multi-head self-attention module.""" def __init__( self, dim: int, num_heads: int = 12, qkv_bias: bool = True, attn_drop: float = 0.0, proj_drop: float = 0.0, ): super().__init__() self.num_heads = num_heads self.head_dim = dim // num_heads self.scale = self.head_dim**-0.5 self.qkv = nn.Linear(dim, dim * 3, bias=qkv_bias) self.attn_drop = nn.Dropout(attn_drop) self.proj = nn.Linear(dim, dim) self.proj_drop = nn.Dropout(proj_drop) def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: B, N, C = x.shape # Compute Q, K, V qkv = self.qkv(x).reshape(B, N, 3, self.num_heads, self.head_dim) qkv = qkv.permute(2, 0, 3, 1, 4) # [3, B, num_heads, N, head_dim] q, k, v = qkv[0], qkv[1], qkv[2] # Scaled dot-product attention attn = (q @ k.transpose(-2, -1)) * self.scale attn = attn.softmax(dim=-1) attn = self.attn_drop(attn) # Apply attention to values x = (attn @ v).transpose(1, 2).reshape(B, N, C) x = self.proj(x) x = self.proj_drop(x) return x class MLP(nn.Module): """MLP module with GELU activation.""" def __init__( self, in_features: int, hidden_features: int = None, out_features: int = None, drop: float = 0.0, ): super().__init__() out_features = out_features or in_features hidden_features = hidden_features or in_features self.fc1 = nn.Linear(in_features, hidden_features) self.act = nn.GELU() self.fc2 = nn.Linear(hidden_features, out_features) self.drop = nn.Dropout(drop) def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: x = self.fc1(x) x = self.act(x) x = self.drop(x) x = self.fc2(x) x = self.drop(x) return x class TransformerBlock(nn.Module): """Vision Transformer block with LayerScale.""" def __init__( self, dim: int, num_heads: int, mlp_ratio: float = 4.0, qkv_bias: bool = True, drop: float = 0.0, attn_drop: float = 0.0, init_values: float = 1e-5, ): super().__init__() self.norm1 = nn.LayerNorm(dim, eps=1e-6) self.attn = MultiHeadAttention( dim, num_heads=num_heads, qkv_bias=qkv_bias, attn_drop=attn_drop, proj_drop=drop, ) self.ls1 = LayerScale(dim, init_value=init_values) self.norm2 = nn.LayerNorm(dim, eps=1e-6) self.mlp = MLP( in_features=dim, hidden_features=int(dim * mlp_ratio), drop=drop, ) self.ls2 = LayerScale(dim, init_value=init_values) def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: x = x + self.ls1(self.attn(self.norm1(x))) x = x + self.ls2(self.mlp(self.norm2(x))) return x class VisionTransformerBackbone(nn.Module): """DINOv2 Vision Transformer backbone for feature extraction. This implements a ViT-B/14 architecture compatible with DINOv2 weights. The positional encoding interpolation matches the Facebook implementation for exact output compatibility. """ def __init__( self, image_size: int = 518, patch_size: int = 14, in_channels: int = 3, embed_dim: int = 768, depth: int = 12, num_heads: int = 12, mlp_ratio: float = 4.0, qkv_bias: bool = True, ): super().__init__() self.patch_size = patch_size self.embed_dim = embed_dim self.num_channels = embed_dim # For compatibility # Patch embedding self.patch_embed = PatchEmbedding( image_size=image_size, patch_size=patch_size, in_channels=in_channels, embed_dim=embed_dim, ) # Positional encoding interpolation parameters (matching Facebook's DINO) self.interpolate_offset = 0.1 self.interpolate_antialias = False # Class token self.cls_token = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, 1, embed_dim)) # Positional embedding (for 37x37 = 1369 patches + 1 CLS token = 1370) num_patches = (image_size // patch_size) ** 2 self.pos_embed = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, num_patches + 1, embed_dim)) # Transformer blocks self.blocks = nn.ModuleList( [ TransformerBlock( dim=embed_dim, num_heads=num_heads, mlp_ratio=mlp_ratio, qkv_bias=qkv_bias, ) for _ in range(depth) ] ) # Final layer norm self.norm = nn.LayerNorm(embed_dim, eps=1e-6) def interpolate_pos_encoding(self, x: torch.Tensor, w: int, h: int) -> torch.Tensor: """Interpolate positional encoding for different input sizes. This matches the Facebook DINOv2 implementation exactly, including the interpolation offset kludge for backward compatibility. """ previous_dtype = x.dtype npatch = x.shape[1] - 1 # Exclude CLS token N = self.pos_embed.shape[1] - 1 # Number of patches in pos_embed # If input matches training resolution, return as-is if npatch == N and w == h: return self.pos_embed pos_embed = self.pos_embed.float() class_pos_embed = pos_embed[:, 0] patch_pos_embed = pos_embed[:, 1:] dim = x.shape[-1] w0 = w // self.patch_size h0 = h // self.patch_size M = int(math.sqrt(N)) # Original number of patches per dimension # Use scale_factor with offset for backward compatibility # This is the "kludge" from Facebook's DINO implementation sx = float(w0 + self.interpolate_offset) / M sy = float(h0 + self.interpolate_offset) / M patch_pos_embed = F.interpolate( patch_pos_embed.reshape(1, M, M, dim).permute(0, 3, 1, 2), scale_factor=(sx, sy), mode="bicubic", antialias=self.interpolate_antialias, ) assert (w0, h0) == patch_pos_embed.shape[-2:] patch_pos_embed = patch_pos_embed.permute(0, 2, 3, 1).view(1, -1, dim) return torch.cat((class_pos_embed.unsqueeze(0), patch_pos_embed), dim=1).to(previous_dtype) def prepare_tokens(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: """Prepare input tokens with positional encoding.""" B, C, W, H = x.shape # Patch embedding x = self.patch_embed(x) # Add CLS token cls_tokens = self.cls_token.expand(B, -1, -1) x = torch.cat((cls_tokens, x), dim=1) # Add positional encoding x = x + self.interpolate_pos_encoding(x, W, H) return x def forward(self, images: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]: """Extract features from images. Args: images: Input images [B, 3, H, W] where H, W are multiples of 14 Returns: Tuple of: - patch_features: [B, 768, H//14, W//14] spatial feature map - cls_token: [B, 768] global CLS token """ batch_size, _, height, width = images.shape # Prepare tokens with positional encoding x = self.prepare_tokens(images) # Apply transformer blocks for block in self.blocks: x = block(x) # Apply final layer norm x = self.norm(x) # Extract CLS token and patch tokens cls_token = x[:, 0] patch_tokens = x[:, 1:] # Reshape patch tokens to spatial format h_patches = height // self.patch_size w_patches = width // self.patch_size patch_features = patch_tokens.reshape(batch_size, h_patches, w_patches, self.embed_dim).permute(0, 3, 1, 2) return patch_features, cls_token # ============================================================================== # Feature Dimension Reduction # ============================================================================== class DescriptorAggregator(nn.Module): """Wrapper combining feature aggregation with linear projection. Applies the optimal transport aggregation followed by a linear layer to reduce dimensionality to the desired output size. Args: output_dim: Final descriptor dimensionality aggregator_config: Configuration for FeatureAggregationHead aggregator_output_dim: Output dimension of the aggregation head """ def __init__(self, output_dim: int, aggregator_config: dict, aggregator_output_dim: int): super().__init__() self.aggregation = FeatureAggregationHead(**aggregator_config) self.projection = nn.Linear(aggregator_output_dim, output_dim) def forward(self, x): aggregated = self.aggregation(x) return self.projection(aggregated) # ============================================================================== # L2 Normalization Layer # ============================================================================== class L2Normalize(nn.Module): """L2 normalization layer.""" def __init__(self, dim: int = -1): super().__init__() self.dim = dim def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: return F.normalize(x, p=2, dim=self.dim) # ============================================================================== # Main Model # ============================================================================== class MegaLoc(nn.Module, PyTorchModelHubMixin): """MegaLoc: Unified visual place recognition model. Combines a DINOv2 Vision Transformer backbone with optimal transport-based feature aggregation to produce compact, discriminative image descriptors for place recognition and image retrieval tasks. Args: feat_dim: Output descriptor dimensionality (default: 8448) num_clusters: Number of cluster centers for aggregation (default: 64) cluster_dim: Dimensionality of cluster descriptors (default: 256) token_dim: Dimensionality of global scene token (default: 256) mlp_dim: Hidden dimension for MLPs (default: 512) Example: >>> model = MegaLoc.from_pretrained("gberton/MegaLoc") >>> model.eval() >>> image = torch.randn(1, 3, 322, 322) # Will auto-resize to 322x322 >>> descriptor = model(image) # [1, 8448] """ def __init__( self, feat_dim: int = 8448, num_clusters: int = 64, cluster_dim: int = 256, token_dim: int = 256, mlp_dim: int = 512, ): super().__init__() self.backbone = VisionTransformerBackbone() # Aggregator output: num_clusters * cluster_dim + token_dim self.aggregator_output_dim = num_clusters * cluster_dim + token_dim self.aggregator = DescriptorAggregator( output_dim=feat_dim, aggregator_config={ "input_channels": self.backbone.num_channels, "num_clusters": num_clusters, "cluster_channels": cluster_dim, "global_token_dim": token_dim, "hidden_dim": mlp_dim, }, aggregator_output_dim=self.aggregator_output_dim, ) self.feat_dim = feat_dim self.normalize = L2Normalize() def forward(self, images: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: """Extract global descriptor from images. Args: images: Input images [B, 3, H, W] Returns: L2-normalized descriptors [B, feat_dim] """ batch_size, channels, height, width = images.shape # Ensure dimensions are multiples of 14 (ViT patch size) if height % 14 != 0 or width % 14 != 0: height = round(height / 14) * 14 width = round(width / 14) * 14 images = tfm.resize(images, [height, width], antialias=True) # Extract backbone features features = self.backbone(images) # Aggregate into global descriptor descriptor = self.aggregator(features) # Final L2 normalization return self.normalize(descriptor)