Installation

Before you start, you’ll need to set up your environment and install the appropriate packages. timm requires Python 3.10 or newer.

Virtual Environment

You should install timm in a virtual environment to keep things tidy and avoid dependency conflicts.

1. Create and navigate to your project directory:

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   mkdir ~/my-project
   cd ~/my-project

2. Start a virtual environment inside your directory:

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   python -m venv .env

3. Activate and deactivate the virtual environment with the following commands:

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   # Activate the virtual environment
   source .env/bin/activate
   
   # Deactivate the virtual environment
   source .env/bin/deactivate

Once you’ve created your virtual environment, you can install timm in it.

Using pip

The most straightforward way to install timm is with pip:

pip install timm

Alternatively, you can install timm from GitHub directly to get the latest, bleeding-edge version:

pip install git+https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models.git

Run the following command to check if timm has been properly installed:

python -c "from timm import list_models; print(list_models(pretrained=True)[:5])"

This command lists the first five pretrained models available in timm (which are sorted alphebetically). You should see the following output:

['adv_inception_v3', 'bat_resnext26ts', 'beit_base_patch16_224', 'beit_base_patch16_224_in22k', 'beit_base_patch16_384']

From Source

Building timm from source lets you make changes to the code base. To install from the source, clone the repository and install with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models.git
cd pytorch-image-models
pip install -e .

Again, you can check if timm was properly installed with the following command:

python -c "from timm import list_models; print(list_models(pretrained=True)[:5])"