Accessing a specific layer in a pretrained model in PyTorch

I want to extract the features from certain blocks of the TimeSformer model and also want to remove the last two layers.

import torch
from timesformer.models.vit import TimeSformer

model = TimeSformer(img_size=224, num_classes=400, num_frames=8, attention_type='divided_space_time',  pretrained_model='/path/to/pretrained/model.pyth')

The print of the model is as follows:

TimeSformer(
  (model): VisionTransformer(
(dropout): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
(patch_embed): PatchEmbed(
  (proj): Conv2d(3, 768, kernel_size=(16, 16), stride=(16, 16))
)
(pos_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
(time_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
(blocks): ModuleList(  #************
  (0): Block(
    (norm1): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (attn): Attention(
      (qkv): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=2304, bias=True)
      (proj): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (proj_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
      (attn_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
    (temporal_norm1): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (temporal_attn): Attention(
      (qkv): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=2304, bias=True)
      (proj): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (proj_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
      (attn_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
    (temporal_fc): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
    (drop_path): Identity()
    (norm2): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (mlp): Mlp(
      (fc1): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=3072, bias=True)
      (act): GELU()
      (fc2): Linear(in_features=3072, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
  )
  (1): Block(
    (norm1): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (attn): Attention(
      (qkv): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=2304, bias=True)
      (proj): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (proj_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
      (attn_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
    (temporal_norm1): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (temporal_attn): Attention(
      (qkv): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=2304, bias=True)
      (proj): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (proj_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
      (attn_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
    (temporal_fc): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
    (drop_path): DropPath()
    (norm2): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (mlp): Mlp(
      (fc1): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=3072, bias=True)
      (act): GELU()
      (fc2): Linear(in_features=3072, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
  )
.
.
.
.
.
.
  (11): Block(
    (norm1): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (attn): Attention(
      (qkv): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=2304, bias=True)
      (proj): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (proj_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
      (attn_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
    (temporal_norm1): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (temporal_attn): Attention(
      (qkv): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=2304, bias=True)
      (proj): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (proj_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
      (attn_drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
    (temporal_fc): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=768, bias=True)
    (drop_path): DropPath()
    (norm2): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True)
    (mlp): Mlp(
      (fc1): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=3072, bias=True)
      (act): GELU()
      (fc2): Linear(in_features=3072, out_features=768, bias=True)
      (drop): Dropout(p=0.0, inplace=False)
    )
  )
)
(norm): LayerNorm((768,), eps=1e-06, elementwise_affine=True) **** I want to remove this layer*****
(head): Linear(in_features=768, out_features=400, bias=True) **** I want to remove this layer*****

)

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Specifically, I want to extract the outputs of the 4th, 8th and 11th blocks of the model and removing the lats two layers. How can I do this. I tried using TimeSformer.blocks[0] but that was not working.

Update :

I have a Class and I need to access the aforementioned blocks of the TimeSformer as the output of this class. The input of this class is a 5D tensor. This is the non-modified code that I use for extracting the outputs of the aforementioned blocks:

class Model(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, pretrained=False):
    super(Model, self).__init__()
    
    
    self.model =TimeSformer(img_size=224, num_classes=400, num_frames=8, attention_type='divided_space_time',  
                                       pretrained_model='/home/user/models/TimeSformer_divST_16x16_448_K400.pyth')
    
   
    self.activation = {}
    def get_activation(name):
        def hook(model, input, output):
            self.activation[name] = output.detach()
            return hook

    self.model.model.blocks[4].register_forward_hook(get_activation('block4'))
    self.model.model.blocks[8].register_forward_hook(get_activation('block8'))
    self.model.model.blocks[11].register_forward_hook(get_activation('block11'))


    block4_output = self.activation['block4']
    block8_output = self.activation['block8']
    block11_output = self.activation['block11']
    
    
    
def forward(self, x, out_consp = False):
    
    features2, features3, features4 = self.model(x)

Answer

To extract the intermediate output from specific layers, you can register it as a hook, the example is showed by the snipcode below:

import torch
from timesformer.models.vit import TimeSformer

model = TimeSformer(img_size=224, num_classes=400, num_frames=8, attention_type='divided_space_time',  pretrained_model='/path/to/pretrained/model.pyth')

activation = {}
def get_activation(name):
    def hook(model, input, output):
        activation[name] = output.detach()
    return hook

model.model.blocks[4].register_forward_hook(get_activation('block4'))
model.model.blocks[8].register_forward_hook(get_activation('block8'))
model.model.blocks[11].register_forward_hook(get_activation('block11'))

x = torch.randn(3,3,224,224)
output = model(x)

block4_output = activation['block4']
block8_output = activation['block8']
block11_output = activation['block11']

To remove the last two layers, you can replace them with Identity:

model.norm = torch.nn.Identity()
model.head= torch.nn.Identity()