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Removes the deprecated collate functions, the high-level model wrappers, SymNegCosineSimilarityLoss, and a set of deprecated arguments. All of it has warned since 1.3.0 or 1.4.0.

Breaking change — needs a minor version bump at release, which is not part of this PR.

Rebased onto master now that #1939 and #2020 have landed; the diff is this PR's own four commits.

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Removed Replacement
every collate function in lightly.data.collate (Base, Image, MultiView, SimCLR, MoCo, MultiCrop, SwaV, DINO, MAE, PIRL, MSN, SMoG, VICReg, VICRegL) the matching lightly.transforms.*Transform plus MultiViewCollate
lightly.data.imagenet_normalize lightly.transforms.utils.IMAGENET_NORMALIZE
from lightly.data.collate import IJEPAMaskCollator — the whole lightly.data.collate module goes, and with it the re-export #2020 left behind from lightly.data import IJEPAMaskCollator
lightly.models.{BarlowTwins, BYOL, MoCo, NNCLR, SimCLR, SimSiam} heads from lightly.models.modules, as in examples/
lightly.loss.SymNegCosineSimilarityLoss lightly.loss.NegativeCosineSimilarity
MSNLoss(me_max_weight=...) MSNLoss(regularization_weight=...)
GaussianBlur(kernel_size=..., scale=...) and the pass-throughs on the method transforms GaussianBlur(sigmas=...)
MemoryBankModule(size=n) MemoryBankModule(size=(n, dim))
trainer.weights_summary in the CLI config trainer.enable_model_summary and summary_callback.max_depth
plot_augmented_images(images, collate_function) plot_augmented_images(images, transform), taking a MultiViewTransform

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lightly-ssl-train and lightly-magic build a SimCLRTransform instead of an ImageCollateFunction. The augmentations are identical: every key in the collate: config namespace maps onto a SimCLRTransform argument and all of them are pinned in config.yaml. The namespace keeps its name because lightly-embed reads collate.input_size.

GaussianBlur.__init__ is keyword-only now. kernel_size was the first positional argument, so removing it would otherwise reinterpret GaussianBlur(0.3) as prob=0.3 without complaint.

Dropping the blur arguments shifts positional order on roughly 30 public transform classes, so callers passing arguments positionally past that point need keywords.

MemoryBankModule raises ValueError on a bare positive int size. Inferring the feature dimension from the first batch broke distributed training. size=0 still disables the bank, so NTXentLoss(memory_bank_size=0) is unaffected.

Testing

Full pytest suite after the rebase: 1397 passed, 226 skipped. ruff format-check and lint are clean. The one failure, tests/utils/test_dist__gather__losses.py::test_loss_dcl, is the macOS DDP hang from #1917 and fails identically on an unmodified master checkout.

mypy and the Sphinx docs build don't run on this machine — mypy 1.4.1 crashes on the numpy 2.5.1 stubs, and Sphinx wants imghdr, which Python 3.13 removed. Instead I imported every autodoc target in docs/source to confirm it still resolves.

Summary

  • Removed deprecated collate functions, high-level model wrappers, SymNegCosineSimilarityLoss, and deprecated arguments.
  • Replaced collate functions with transforms and MultiViewCollate.
  • Updated Gaussian blur APIs to use keyword-only prob and sigmas.
  • Updated memory bank sizes to require (size, embedding_dim) tuples.
  • Updated training, debugging tools, documentation, and tests for the new APIs.

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Collate functions have warned since v1.4.0. Transforms plus MultiViewCollate
replace them.

lightly-ssl-train now builds a SimCLRTransform from the collate: config
namespace instead of an ImageCollateFunction. Every key maps onto a
SimCLRTransform argument and all of them are pinned in config.yaml, so the
augmentations are unchanged. The namespace keeps its name because
lightly-embed reads collate.input_size.

plot_augmented_images takes a MultiViewTransform. The view transforms wrap a
T.Compose rather than subclassing it, so apply_transform_without_normalize
needs to unwrap them, otherwise it returns normalized tensors instead of PIL
images.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BarlowTwins, BYOL, MoCo, NNCLR, SimCLR and SimSiam have warned since they
were marked for removal in 1.3.0. Build models from the heads in
lightly.models.modules instead, as the examples do.

_momentum.py goes with them; BYOL and MoCo were its only users.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both arguments have warned since 1.4.0 and were ignored after warning, so
removing them changes no augmentation output. The pass-through arguments in
the method transforms go with them.

FDATransform defaulted kernel_size to 23 rather than None, so constructing
one emitted two DeprecationWarnings. That is gone now.

GaussianBlur.__init__ is keyword-only. kernel_size was the first positional
argument, so dropping it would otherwise reinterpret GaussianBlur(0.3) as
prob=0.3.

detcon_transform keeps its kernel_size: it feeds torchvision's GaussianBlur,
which is a different argument.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- MSNLoss(me_max_weight=): use regularization_weight
- SymNegCosineSimilarityLoss: use NegativeCosineSimilarity
- MemoryBankModule bare positive int size: pass (num_features, dim). size=0
  still disables the bank, so NTXentLoss(memory_bank_size=0) is unaffected.
  Inferring the feature dimension from the first batch broke distributed
  training, so it now raises instead of warning, and the bank is allocated
  in __init__.
- trainer.weights_summary: use trainer.enable_model_summary and
  summary_callback.max_depth

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change removes deprecated collate APIs, high-level model exports, loss parameters, Gaussian blur kernel-size options, memory-bank scalar sizing, and trainer summary compatibility. Callers, configuration, documentation, examples, and tests are updated for transforms and explicit memory-bank dimensions.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Gaussian blur transform API cleanup
lightly/transforms/*
Transform constructors no longer accept deprecated kernel-size options. GaussianBlur now accepts keyword-only prob and sigmas.
Transform-based data and debug pipeline
lightly/data/*, lightly/cli/*, lightly/utils/debug.py, docs/*, tests/*
Training, visualization, examples, and tests use transforms with MultiViewCollate instead of legacy collate functions.
Memory-bank and loss API updates
lightly/models/modules/*, lightly/loss/*, tests/loss/*, tests/models/modules/*
Memory banks use explicit (capacity, feature_dimension) sizes. Deprecated loss compatibility behavior is removed.
Deprecated models and trainer callbacks
lightly/models/*, lightly/embedding/*, lightly/utils/benchmarking/*, tests/models/*
Deprecated high-level models and exports are removed. Summary callback creation no longer reads trainer.weights_summary.

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gabrielfruet and others added 3 commits September 8, 2026 10:19
The master merge kept the pre-refactor __call__ body while taking the new
import line, so every Tensor input raised NameError.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MemoryBankModule now rejects a bare int size.

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Bump the package minor version for this breaking API removal.

IBOTTransform.__init__ no longer accepts the deprecated kernel_size and kernel_scale arguments. The same public API removal is applied across this cohort. Publish it under a new minor version so dependency resolution does not present a breaking release as a compatible update. Update the package version metadata before merge.

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Bump the package minor version for this breaking removal.

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In `@lightly/models/modules/memory_bank.py`:
- Line 90: Update the memory-bank shape validation before buffer registration
and _init_memory_bank so every enabled bank accepts exactly (num_features, dim);
reject empty, one-entry, and longer sequences such as (), (10,), and (10, 2, 3).
Add regression tests covering these invalid shapes and ensure unsupported banks
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject unsupported memory-bank shapes before initialization.

size=(10,) is still accepted, but Line 90 skips _init_memory_bank for one-entry sequences. forward() then returns an uninitialized one-dimensional buffer as bank; with update=True, the batch assignment can fail because the batch is two-dimensional. Sequences with more than two entries also create unsupported bank shapes.

Validate that every enabled memory bank has exactly (num_features, dim), or reject these sequence lengths before registering the buffers. Add regression tests for (10,), (), and (10, 2, 3).

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