---
license: apache-2.0
library_name: peft
base_model: WinKawaks/vit-tiny-patch16-224
tags:
  - lora
  - peft
  - image-classification
  - vit
  - food101
datasets:
  - food101
pipeline_tag: image-classification
metrics:
  - accuracy
---

# ViT-tiny LoRA adapter on Food-101

A LoRA adapter that teaches [`WinKawaks/vit-tiny-patch16-224`](https://huggingface.co/WinKawaks/vit-tiny-patch16-224) to classify images from the [Food-101](https://huggingface.co/datasets/food101) dataset (101 food categories) while leaving the original pretrained weights mathematically untouched.

- **Base model:** `WinKawaks/vit-tiny-patch16-224` (~5.7M params)
- **Dataset:** [Food-101](https://huggingface.co/datasets/food101) (75,750 train / 25,250 test, 101 classes)
- **Method:** LoRA on attention `query` + `value` projections + a fresh 101-way classification head
- **Demo Space:** [`turhancan97/vit-tiny-imagenet-demo`](https://huggingface.co/spaces/turhancan97/vit-tiny-imagenet-demo)

## How it works

The backbone is never fine-tuned. Instead a low-rank update $\Delta W = BA$ (with rank $r = 8$) is added to each attention projection, and a separate 101-class linear head is trained on top of the pooled CLS features. The full artifact is tiny (~1–2 MB) and additive — disabling the adapter at inference time recovers the exact original ImageNet-1k model.

```text
adapter_config.json           # PEFT LoRA config
adapter_model.safetensors     # LoRA weights (B, A matrices)
classifier.pt                 # 101-way Linear head (state_dict)
labels.json                   # {"0": "apple_pie", "1": "baby_back_ribs", ...}
preprocessor_config.json      # image processor (224x224, standard ImageNet norm)
```

## Training

Trained with the script at [`turhancan97/vit-tiny-imagenet-demo/train_lora.py`](https://huggingface.co/spaces/turhancan97/vit-tiny-imagenet-demo/blob/main/train_lora.py):

```bash
python train_lora.py \
  --rank 8 --alpha 16 --dropout 0.1 \
  --target-modules query value \
  --epochs 5 --batch-size 64 --lr 5e-4 \
  --warmup-ratio 0.03 --weight-decay 0.0 \
  --push-to-hub turhancan97/vit-tiny-lora-food101
```

**Hyperparameters**

| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| LoRA rank | 8 |
| LoRA alpha | 16 |
| LoRA dropout | 0.1 |
| Target modules | `query`, `value` |
| Optimizer | AdamW (HF `Trainer` default) |
| Learning rate | 5e-4 |
| Batch size | 64 |
| Epochs | 5 |
| Warmup ratio | 0.03 |
| Weight decay | 0.0 |
| Precision | FP16 |
| Augmentation | RandomResizedCrop(0.8–1.0), RandomHorizontalFlip |

**Trainable parameters:** ~93k of ~5.6M total (**~1.7%**).

## Evaluation

Evaluated on the Food-101 test split (25,250 images).

| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Top-1 accuracy | 85 % |
| Top-5 accuracy | 90 % |

## Usage

The adapter uses the standard PEFT format plus a sidecar `classifier.pt` and `labels.json`. Minimal loader:

```python
import json
import torch
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
from peft import PeftModel
from torch import nn
from transformers import AutoImageProcessor, AutoModelForImageClassification

BASE = "WinKawaks/vit-tiny-patch16-224"
ADAPTER = "turhancan97/vit-tiny-lora-food101"

processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(BASE, use_fast=True)
base = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained(BASE)
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, ADAPTER)

id2label = {int(k): v for k, v in json.loads(
    open(hf_hub_download(ADAPTER, "labels.json")).read()
).items()}

head_state = torch.load(
    hf_hub_download(ADAPTER, "classifier.pt"), map_location="cpu", weights_only=True
)
head = nn.Linear(base.config.hidden_size, len(id2label))
head.load_state_dict(head_state)
model.base_model.model.classifier = head

model.eval()
```

**Inference:**

```python
from PIL import Image

image = Image.open("my_food.jpg").convert("RGB")
inputs = processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt")
with torch.inference_mode():
    logits = model(**inputs).logits[0]
topk = logits.softmax(-1).topk(5)
for score, idx in zip(topk.values, topk.indices):
    print(f"{id2label[idx.item()]:30s} {score.item():.3f}")
```

**Switching back to the base model** (ImageNet-1k, 1000 classes) without unloading:

```python
with model.disable_adapter():
    logits = base(**inputs).logits  # uses the pristine pretrained weights
```

## Intended use

- Educational / demo use for showing how LoRA adds new capabilities to a frozen backbone.
- Classifying photos of prepared food into the Food-101 taxonomy.

## Limitations

- Only 101 food categories; anything outside the taxonomy will be misclassified.
- Trained on Food-101 which is mostly western/restaurant-style dishes, with label noise in the original data.
- ViT-tiny is a low-capacity backbone; a larger base model would likely get higher accuracy with the same adapter recipe.

## License

Apache-2.0, matching the base model and the [Food-101 dataset license](https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/cvl/datasets_extra/food-101/).

## Citation

If you use this adapter, please cite the underlying works:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{hu2022lora,
  title={{LoRA}: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models},
  author={Hu, Edward J. and Shen, Yelong and Wallis, Phillip and Allen-Zhu, Zeyuan and Li, Yuanzhi and Wang, Shean and Wang, Lu and Chen, Weizhu},
  booktitle={ICLR},
  year={2022}
}

@inproceedings{bossard2014food101,
  title={Food-101 -- Mining Discriminative Components with Random Forests},
  author={Bossard, Lukas and Guillaumin, Matthieu and Van Gool, Luc},
  booktitle={ECCV},
  year={2014}
}
```