model_conv = torchvision.models.resnet18(weights='IMAGENET1K_V1') for param in model_conv.parameters(): param.requires_grad = False # Parameters of newly constructed modules have requires_grad=True by default num_ftrs = model_conv.fc.in_features model_conv.fc = nn.Linear(num_ftrs, 2) model_conv = model_conv.to(device) criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss() # Observe that only parameters of final layer are being optimized as # opposed to before. optimizer_conv = optim.SGD(model_conv.fc.parameters(), lr=0.001, momentum=0.9) # Decay LR by a factor of 0.1 every 7 epochs exp_lr_scheduler = lr_scheduler.StepLR(optimizer_conv, step_size=7, gamma=0.1)