Please verify the results on cifar first.

many thanks for the PR. it looks like you are using a simplified resnet? how about refactor the symbol definition into examples/image-classification/symbol_resnet-small.py, then we can train it on cifar10 by

python train_cifar10.py --network resnet-small ...

ps. you may want to choose a better name but i hope to reserve symbol_resnet.py to the one can repeat their paper's results on imagenet

What is your results on cifar10? If it is the same as the paper, we can merge in, otherwise we had better to find the reasons to avoid confusion to others.

The result in https://github.com/shuokay/mxnet/commit/cd28e159d2509bf8799ad36a3219ecd5ac1b0a4f is "train accuracy around 82.7% and test accuracy 75.6%".

our baseline algorithm on cifar10 gets 90% test accuracy, see https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet/tree/master/example/image-classification#cifar-10

so i think there should be room for improvement

@winstywang @mli Sorry for disturbing you guys, I am busy with work these days, maybe can get an improved result this weekend.

I pushed this commit just for setting a checkpoint and will not push commits until get a reasonable result.

@shuokay no at all, many thanks for your contributions, we are just trying to help to improve the results

@shuokay In the paper, I don't see a relu before element-wise addition. But in your implementation, there is one. Did I misread that?

Update the resnet-small example, there are differences to the paper:

• 1*1 convolution operators are used for increasing dimensions.
• This is a small residual net consists of 52 layers.
• Data augmentations are using mxnet default options include center crop (instead of random crop) and random mirror, no paddings on raw image data and the input image size is 28×28(instead of 32×32).
• Hyper parameters, this code is using initial lr=0.01, wd=0.00001.

Running this example by
python train_cifar10.py --network=resnet-small --lr=0.01 --lr-factor=0.1 --lr-factor-epoch=20 --num-epochs=30
I get a final train accuracy about 91.75% and test accuracy about 84.30%.

ps: I think magnitude should be 2.0 when using kaiming weight init method, because Var[w_l]==2/n_l, however when I set magnitude=2, the net don't converge.

@wangg12 you are right, I have updated the example code.

Close for now. Welcome to PR when you get it work.