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ResNet's documented norm and act constructor arguments only reached the stem. Two coupled defects:

  1. The parameters were never threaded into the network. _make_layer was called without norm, and it had no act parameter at all, so every residual block and every 'B'-shortcut downsample fell back to its own "batch" / "relu" defaults. ResNet(..., norm="instance", act="leakyrelu") silently built a BatchNorm+ReLU backbone, with only bn1/act in the stem honouring the request. All of resnet10 through resnet200 were affected.

  2. Non-affine norms crashed construction. The weight-init loop ran nn.init.constant_(torch.as_tensor(m.weight), 1) for every module matching the stem norm's type. InstanceNorm*/LayerNorm default to affine=False, where weight is None, so torch.as_tensor(None) raised RuntimeError: Could not infer dtype of NoneType. ResNet(..., norm="instance") could not be built at all.

These have to be fixed together: threading norm into the blocks makes the non-affine init crash reachable in every layer, not just the stem.

The blocks themselves already accepted act and norm, so this is plumbing, with no block logic changes.

Changes by file

monai/networks/nets/resnet.py: thread the parameters through and guard the init loop.

  • The four _make_layer calls in __init__ now forward the constructor's act and norm:
    self.layer1 = self._make_layer(
        block, block_inplanes[0], layers[0], spatial_dims, shortcut_type, act=act, norm=norm
    )
  • _make_layer gains an act parameter matching the blocks' default, and passes act=act to both block(...) construction sites (the first block with the downsample, and the range(1, blocks) loop).
  • The init loop skips absent affine parameters:
    elif isinstance(m, type(norm_layer)):
        # non-affine norm layers (e.g. instance/layer norm defaults) have no weight/bias
        if m.weight is not None:
            nn.init.constant_(torch.as_tensor(m.weight), 1)
        if m.bias is not None:
            nn.init.constant_(torch.as_tensor(m.bias), 0)

monai/networks/nets/daf3d.py: keep the ResNet subclass working.

Daf3dResNet subclasses ResNet and reuses the inherited _make_layer with its own block classes. Once _make_layer forwards act=act to block(...), those blocks raised TypeError: unexpected keyword argument 'act'. Daf3dResNetBottleneck and Daf3dResNetDilatedBottleneck now accept act=("relu", {"inplace": True}) and forward it to ResNetBottleneck.__init__. Behaviour is unchanged, since both blocks overwrite their activation with nn.PReLU() afterwards, exactly as before.

tests/networks/nets/test_resnet.py: regression coverage.

  • test_norm_act_reach_blocks builds with norm=("instance", {"affine": True}), act="leakyrelu" and asserts every block's bn1/bn2/act and every 'B' downsample norm is the requested type.
  • test_non_affine_norm_init checks norm="instance" (non-affine) constructs and runs a forward pass.
  • test_default_norm_act_unchanged checks the default config still builds BatchNorm + inplace ReLU everywhere, and that BatchNorm affine parameters are still initialised to 1/0.
  • TEST_CASE_9 changed from ("layer", {"normalized_shape": (64, 32)}) to ("group", {"num_groups": 8}). See the behaviour note below.

Behaviour change to be aware of

A norm valid only for the stem now fails instead of being silently ignored: nn.LayerNorm needs an explicit normalized_shape, and no single value fits all four stages, so a fixed-shape layer norm now raises at forward time. TEST_CASE_9 moved to group norm accordingly. Checkpoints from an earlier non-default norm/act config were really BatchNorm+ReLU networks and will legitimately differ. Default construction is untouched.

Verification

The default resnet18(spatial_dims=3, n_input_channels=1, num_classes=2) state dict is structurally identical to the pre-change version: all 125 entries match key-for-key and shape-for-shape, 33,161,922 parameters either way.

Driven end-to-end through the public factories:

resnet18(..., norm=("instance", {"affine": True}), act=("leakyrelu", ...))
  norm+act module kinds present: ['InstanceNorm3d', 'LeakyReLU']   # no BatchNorm/ReLU leakage
  forward + backward + optimizer step on a (2, 1, 64, 64, 64) input: OK
resnet50(spatial_dims=2, n_input_channels=3, num_classes=5, norm="instance")
  constructs (previously RuntimeError) and forwards to (1, 5)
resnet18(spatial_dims=3, n_input_channels=1, num_classes=2)   # defaults
  norm+act module kinds present: ['BatchNorm3d', 'ReLU']
DAF3D(in_channels=1, out_channels=2)
  forward on (1, 1, 16, 32, 32) -> (1, 2, 16, 32, 32)

A script reproducing the original report (wrong block norm/act types plus the norm="instance" construction crash) fails on dev with all four symptoms and passes with this change. The two new threading tests are red before the fix and green after.

Checks run locally:

  • python -m pytest tests/networks/nets/test_resnet.py tests/networks/nets/test_daf3d.py tests/networks/nets/test_senet.py: 107 passed, 3 skipped
  • python -m pytest tests/networks/nets/: 1089 passed, 225 skipped, 0 failed
  • ./runtests.sh --ruff: All checks passed
  • ./runtests.sh --black --isort: passed, 1316 files unchanged
  • ./runtests.sh --mypy: Success: no issues found in 1318 source files

(The test_script_save / test_pretrained_networks errors in those runs are pre-existing on dev: they are helper functions defined in tests/test_utils.py that pytest collects as tests and then errors on for missing fixtures. They are unrelated to this change and appear identically on a clean tree.)

Types of changes

  • Non-breaking change (fix or new feature that would not break existing functionality).
  • Breaking change (fix or new feature that would cause existing functionality to change).
  • New tests added to cover the changes.
  • Integration tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh -f -u --net --coverage.
  • Quick tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh --quick --unittests --disttests.
  • In-line docstrings updated.
  • Documentation updated, tested make html command in the docs/ folder.

…affine init

The documented `norm`/`act` constructor arguments only reached the stem:
`_make_layer` was called without `norm` and had no `act` parameter, so every
residual block and 'B'-shortcut downsample hard-defaulted to BatchNorm+ReLU.
The weight-init loop also assumed affine norms, making `norm="instance"`
(non-affine by default) raise during construction.

Forward `norm`/`act` from `__init__` through `_make_layer` into the blocks and
downsample, and skip `None` weight/bias in the init loop. The DAF3D blocks,
which reuse the inherited `_make_layer`, gain a matching `act` parameter.

Default construction (norm="batch", act="relu") is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Soumya Snigdha Kundu <soumya_snigdha.kundu@kcl.ac.uk>
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Minor Fix the blocknormact docstring: downsampling layers use norm only.
Minor Pass act to block constructors only when blocknormact=True.
Minor Drop channel-specific norm arguments before reusing them in residual blocks.

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Review comments at @monai/networks/nets/resnet.py:
- Line 237: Update the `block_norm_act` docstring to state that residual blocks
use `act` and `norm`, while downsampling layers use only `norm`; keep the
description consistent with the constructed shortcut-B downsample.
- Line 351: Update _make_layer and its callers to thread through block_norm_act,
and include act in block constructor arguments only when block_norm_act is true.
Keep passing norm to every block as before.
- Line 278: Update block_kwargs so stem-specific channel counts are not reused
by residual blocks; preserve the other norm options and ensure each stage’s norm
uses its actual channel count. Apply the same correction to the "B" shortcut
norm construction so it is configured for the shortcut’s input channels.
Walkthrough

ResNet adds an option to pass configured normalization and activation settings to residual blocks and downsampling layers. The default keeps the existing block defaults. Initialization now checks for normalization weight and bias parameters before setting them. DAF3D bottleneck constructors accept and forward activation settings. Tests cover propagation, non-affine instance normalization, and default module behavior.

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Default built-in models remain compatible, but explicitly channel-sized normalization and custom block subclasses can fail. These bounded compatibility issues should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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181-202: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add DAF3D non-default activation coverage.

tests/networks/nets/test_daf3d.py only checks default DAF3D shape/script behavior. Add coverage for act in Daf3dResNetBottleneck/Daf3dResNetDilatedBottleneck construction so the configured activation is asserted rather than relying on the parent constructor path.

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Document _make_layer’s expanded contract.

Add a Google-style docstring covering act, norm, return value, and any intentional exceptions. As per path instructions, “Docstrings should be present for all definition which describe each variable, return value, and raised exception in the appropriate section of the Google-style of docstrings.”

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Hi @aymuos15 I see the objective here and it's a good change but we have to manage backward compatibility. I made a few comments to that effect, the tests look fine to me as well. Thanks!

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…ompatibility

Address review: passing ResNet's norm/act into the residual blocks changed the
module tree of existing configurations (e.g. act='prelu' added parameters to
every block). Add block_norm_act=False as the last ResNet argument so blocks
keep ReLU and batch norm unless it is set, and move the new act argument after
norm in _make_layer and the DAF3D bottlenecks so positional calls keep working.

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🟡 Minor · Exercise activation forwarding to a later block. · test_resnet.py:238

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Exercise activation forwarding to a later block.

TEST_CASE_NORM_ACT has one block per layer, so test_norm_act_reach_blocks never enters _make_layer’s later-block loop. Other multi-block cases do not enable block_norm_act and do not assert the later block’s modules. Give one layer two blocks; the existing assertions will then check the later block’s InstanceNorm2d and LeakyReLU.

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Nitpick Assert the shortcut-B downsample in the disabled-mode test.

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Assert the shortcut-B downsample in the disabled-mode test.

test_block_norm_act_off_by_default checks only net.bn1, net.layer1[0].bn1, and net.layer1[0].act. layer1[0] builds no downsample, so no assertion covers the shortcut path. A change that passes the custom norm to downsample layers while block_norm_act=False would still pass. Add an assertion on net.layer2[0].downsample[1], which is built with the default shortcut type "B".

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         self.assertIsInstance(net.bn1, torch.nn.InstanceNorm2d)
         self.assertIsInstance(net.layer1[0].bn1, torch.nn.BatchNorm2d)
+        self.assertIsInstance(net.layer2[0].downsample[1], torch.nn.BatchNorm2d)
         self.assertIsInstance(net.layer1[0].act, torch.nn.ReLU)

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Add a test for a non-default act in Daf3dResNetBottleneck.

Daf3dResNetBottleneck now forwards act to its parent at monai/networks/nets/daf3d.py:202. No test in tests/networks/nets/test_daf3d.py checks this path. Removing the forwarding would silently restore ReLU, and the suite would still pass. Add a Daf3dResNet test with a non-default act that asserts the bottleneck activation type.

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bias_downsample: bool = True, # for backwards compatibility (also see PR #5477)
act: str | tuple = ("relu", {"inplace": True}),
norm: str | tuple = "batch",
block_norm_act: bool = False,

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Fix the block_norm_act docstring: downsampling layers use norm only.

The docstring says block_norm_act makes the downsampling layers use act. The shortcut-B downsample is built with only a convolution and norm, so act is never applied there. Reword the description so it matches the constructed model.

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@aymuos15 this and the following comments perhaps should be addressed?

self.layer2 = self._make_layer(block, block_inplanes[1], layers[1], spatial_dims, shortcut_type, stride=2)
self.layer3 = self._make_layer(block, block_inplanes[2], layers[2], spatial_dims, shortcut_type, stride=2)
self.layer4 = self._make_layer(block, block_inplanes[3], layers[3], spatial_dims, shortcut_type, stride=2)
block_kwargs: dict = {"norm": norm, "act": act} if block_norm_act else {}

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Drop channel-specific norm arguments before reusing them in residual blocks.

With block_norm_act=True, the stem's norm dictionary is forwarded to every stage unchanged. If it sets an explicit channel count, such as num_channels for group norm, that count stays fixed. get_norm_layer only fills num_channels when the dictionary omits it. Stages wider than the stem then fail at forward time, because the first residual block's bn1 receives planes channels, not the stem width. The same applies to the "B" shortcut's norm at resnet.py:341. Strip channel-specific keys from block_kwargs, or build each stage's norm with its own channel count.

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Update block_kwargs so stem-specific channel counts are not reused by residual
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spatial_dims=spatial_dims,
stride=stride,
downsample=downsample,
act=act,

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Pass act to block constructors only when block_norm_act=True.

_make_layer passes act=act to every block, even when block_norm_act=False. A custom ResNetBlock or ResNetBottleneck subclass that accepts norm but not act now raises TypeError during ResNet construction. The same subclass built before this PR.

🐛 Suggested direction

Thread block_norm_act into _make_layer and include act in the block keyword arguments only when that flag is set. Keep norm as it was before this PR, because _make_layer already passed it to every block.

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Review comment at @monai/networks/nets/resnet.py at line 351:
Update _make_layer and its callers to thread through block_norm_act, and include
act in block constructor arguments only when block_norm_act is true. Keep
passing norm to every block as before.

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ericspod disabled auto-merge November 3, 2026 17:34

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