| -c | ALL | Specify configuration file to use | None | **Please refer to the parameter introduction for configuration file usage** |
| -o | ALL | set configuration options | None | Configuration using -o has higher priority than the configuration file selected with -c. E.g: `-o Global.use_gpu=false` |
| -o | ALL | set configuration options | None | Configuration using -o has higher priority than the configuration file selected with -c. E.g: -o Global.use_gpu=false |
## INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL PARAMETERS OF CONFIGURATION FILE
Take `rec_chinese_lite_train_v1.1.yml` as an example
Take rec_chinese_lite_train_v1.1.yml as an example
| algorithm | Select algorithm to use | Synchronize with configuration file | For selecting model, please refer to the supported model [list](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/README_en.md) |
| use_gpu | Set using GPU or not | true | \ |
| epoch_num | Maximum training epoch number | 3000 | \ |
| epoch_num | Maximum training epoch number | 500 | \ |
| save_model_dir | Set model save path | output/{model_name} | \ |
| save_model_dir | Set model save path | output/{算法名称} | \ |
| save_epoch_step | Set model save interval | 3 | \ |
| eval_batch_step | Set the model evaluation interval |2000 or [1000, 2000] |runing evaluation every 2000 iters or evaluation is run every 2000 iterations after the 1000th iteration |
|train_batch_size_per_card | Set the batch size during training | 256 | \ |
| test_batch_size_per_card | Set the batch size during testing | 256 | \ |
| loss_type | Set loss type | ctc | Supports two types of loss: ctc / attention |
| distort | Set use distort | false | Support distort type ,read [img_tools.py](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/develop/ppocr/data/rec/img_tools.py) |
| use_space_char | Wether to recognize space | false | Only support in character_type=ch mode |
label_list | Set the angle supported by the direction classifier | ['0','180'] | Only valid in the direction classifier |
| reader_yml | Set the reader configuration file | ./configs/rec/rec_icdar15_reader.yml | \ |
| reader_function | Select data reading method | ppocr.data.rec.dataset_traversal,SimpleReader | Support two data reading methods: SimpleReader / LMDBReader |
| num_workers | Set the number of data reading threads | 8 | \ |
| infer_img | Result folder path | ./infer_img | \|
| eval_batch_step | Set the model evaluation interval | 2000 or [1000, 2000] | runing evaluation every 2000 iters or evaluation is run every 2000 iterations after the 1000th iteration |
| cal_metric_during_train | Set whether to evaluate the metric during the training process. At this time, the metric of the model under the current batch is evaluated | true | \ |
| load_static_weights | Set whether the pre-training model is saved in static graph mode (currently only required by the detection algorithm) | true | \ |
| pretrained_model | Set the path of the pre-trained model | ./pretrain_models/CRNN/best_accuracy | \ |
| checkpoints | set model parameter path | None | Used to load parameters after interruption to continue training|
| use_visualdl | Set whether to enable visualdl for visual log display | False | [Tutorial](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/paddle/visualdl) |
| infer_img | Set inference image path or folder path | ./infer_img | \|
| function | Select Optimizer function | pocr.optimizer,AdamDecay | Only support Adam |
| base_lr | Set the base lr | 0.0005 | \ |
| name | Optimizer class name | Adam | Currently supports`Momentum`,`Adam`,`RMSProp`, see [ppocr/optimizer/optimizer.py](../../ppocr/optimizer/optimizer.py) |
| beta1 | Set the exponential decay rate for the 1st moment estimates | 0.9 | \ |
| beta2 | Set the exponential decay rate for the 2nd moment estimates | 0.999 | \ |
| decay | Whether to use decay | \ | \ |
| function(decay) | Set the decay function | cosine_decay | Support cosine_decay, cosine_decay_warmup and piecewise_decay |
| step_each_epoch | The number of steps in an epoch. Used in cosine_decay/cosine_decay_warmup | 20 | Calculation: total_image_num / (batch_size_per_card * card_size) |
| total_epoch | The number of epochs. Used in cosine_decay/cosine_decay_warmup | 1000 | Consistent with Global.epoch_num |
| warmup_minibatch | Number of steps for linear warmup. Used in cosine_decay_warmup | 1000 | \ |
| boundaries | The step intervals to reduce learning rate. Used in piecewise_decay | - | The format is list |
| decay_rate | Learning rate decay rate. Used in piecewise_decay | - | \ |
| **lr** | Set the learning rate decay method | - | \ |
| name | Learning rate decay class name | Cosine | Currently supports`Linear`,`Cosine`,`Step`,`Piecewise`, see[ppocr/optimizer/learning_rate.py](../../ppocr/optimizer/learning_rate.py) |
| learning_rate | Set the base learning rate | 0.001 | \ |
| model_type | Network Type | rec | Currently support`rec`,`det`,`cls` |
| algorithm | Model name | CRNN | See [algorithm_overview](./algorithm_overview.md) for the support list |
| **Transform** | Set the transformation method | - | Currently only recognition algorithms are supported, see [ppocr/modeling/transform](../../ppocr/modeling/transform) for details |
| name | Transformation class name | TPS | Currently supports `TPS` |
| num_fiducial | Number of TPS control points | 20 | Ten on the top and bottom |
| name | Metric method name | CTCLabelDecode | Currently support`DetMetric`,`RecMetric`,`ClsMetric` |
| main_indicator | Main indicators, used to select the best model | acc | For the detection method is hmean, the recognition and classification method is acc |
| label_file_list | Groundtruth file path | ["./train_data/train_list.txt"] | This parameter is not required when dataset is LMDBDateSet |
| ratio_list | Ratio of data set | [1.0] | If there are two train_lists in label_file_list and ratio_list is [0.4,0.6], 40% will be sampled from train_list1, and 60% will be sampled from train_list2 to combine the entire dataset |
| transforms | List of methods to transform images and labels | [DecodeImage,CTCLabelEncode,RecResizeImg,KeepKeys] | see[ppocr/data/imaug](../../ppocr/data/imaug) |
| **loader** | dataloader related | - | |
| shuffle | Does each epoch disrupt the order of the data set | True | \ |
| batch_size_per_card | Single card batch size during training | 256 | \ |
| drop_last | Whether to discard the last incomplete mini-batch because the number of samples in the data set cannot be divisible by batch_size | True | \ |
| num_workers | The number of sub-processes used to load data, if it is 0, the sub-process is not started, and the data is loaded in the main process | 8 | \ |
