# Swin Transformer
[Swin Transformer](https://huggingface.co/papers/2103.14030) is a hierarchical vision transformer. Images are processed in patches and windowed self-attention is used to capture local information. These windows are shifted across the image to allow for cross-window connections, capturing global information more efficiently. This hierarchical approach with shifted windows allows the Swin Transformer to process images effectively at different scales and achieve linear computational complexity relative to image size, making it a versatile backbone for various vision tasks like image classification and object detection.
You can find all official Swin Transformer checkpoints under the [Microsoft](https://huggingface.co/microsoft?search_models=swin) organization.
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The example below demonstrates how to classify an image with [`Pipeline`] or the [`AutoModel`] class.
```py
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
pipeline = pipeline(
task="image-classification",
model="microsoft/swin-tiny-patch4-window7-224",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device=0
)
pipeline(images="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/pipeline-cat-chonk.jpeg")
```
```py
import torch
import requests
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoModelForImageClassification, AutoImageProcessor
image_processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(
"microsoft/swin-tiny-patch4-window7-224",
use_fast=True,
)
model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained(
"microsoft/swin-tiny-patch4-window7-224",
device_map="cuda"
)
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/pipeline-cat-chonk.jpeg"
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
inputs = image_processor(image, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
with torch.no_grad():
logits = model(**inputs).logits
predicted_class_id = logits.argmax(dim=-1).item()
class_labels = model.config.id2label
predicted_class_label = class_labels[predicted_class_id]
print(f"The predicted class label is: {predicted_class_label}")
```
## Notes
- Swin can pad the inputs for any input height and width divisible by `32`.
- Swin can be used as a [backbone](../backbones). When `output_hidden_states = True`, it outputs both `hidden_states` and `reshaped_hidden_states`. The `reshaped_hidden_states` have a shape of `(batch, num_channels, height, width)` rather than `(batch_size, sequence_length, num_channels)`.
## SwinConfig
[[autodoc]] SwinConfig
## SwinModel
[[autodoc]] SwinModel
- forward
## SwinForMaskedImageModeling
[[autodoc]] SwinForMaskedImageModeling
- forward
## SwinForImageClassification
[[autodoc]] transformers.SwinForImageClassification
- forward
## TFSwinModel
[[autodoc]] TFSwinModel
- call
## TFSwinForMaskedImageModeling
[[autodoc]] TFSwinForMaskedImageModeling
- call
## TFSwinForImageClassification
[[autodoc]] transformers.TFSwinForImageClassification
- call
