Fix segmentation.MeanIoU

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Fixed wrong aggregation in `segmentation.MeanIoU` ([#2698](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2698))
+
+
 - Fixed handling zero division error in binary IoU (Jaccard index) calculation ([#2726](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2726))
 
 

src/torchmetrics/metric.py

@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ def forward(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
         """Aggregate and evaluate batch input directly.
 
         Serves the dual purpose of both computing the metric on the current batch of inputs but also add the batch
-        statistics to the overall accumululating metric state. Input arguments are the exact same as corresponding
+        statistics to the overall accumulating metric state. Input arguments are the exact same as corresponding
         ``update`` method. The returned output is the exact same as the output of ``compute``.
 
         Args:
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ def _forward_full_state_update(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
     def _forward_reduce_state_update(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
         """Forward computation using single call to `update`.
 
-        This can be done when the global metric state is a sinple reduction of batch states. This can be unsafe for
+        This can be done when the global metric state is a simple reduction of batch states. This can be unsafe for
         certain metric cases but is also the fastest way to both accumulate globally and compute locally.
 
         """
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ def _apply(self, fn: Callable, exclude_state: Sequence[str] = "") -> Module:
         """Overwrite `_apply` function such that we can also move metric states to the correct device.
 
         This method is called by the base ``nn.Module`` class whenever `.to`, `.cuda`, `.float`, `.half` etc. methods
-        are called. Dtype conversion is garded and will only happen through the special `set_dtype` method.
+        are called. Dtype conversion is guarded and will only happen through the special `set_dtype` method.
 
         Args:
             fn: the function to apply
@@ -1166,15 +1166,15 @@ def _sync_dist(self, dist_sync_fn: Optional[Callable] = None, process_group: Opt
         """
 
     def update(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
-        """Redirect the call to the input which the conposition was formed from."""
+        """Redirect the call to the input which the composition was formed from."""
         if isinstance(self.metric_a, Metric):
             self.metric_a.update(*args, **self.metric_a._filter_kwargs(**kwargs))
 
         if isinstance(self.metric_b, Metric):
             self.metric_b.update(*args, **self.metric_b._filter_kwargs(**kwargs))
 
     def compute(self) -> Any:
-        """Redirect the call to the input which the conposition was formed from."""
+        """Redirect the call to the input which the composition was formed from."""
         # also some parsing for kwargs?
         val_a = self.metric_a.compute() if isinstance(self.metric_a, Metric) else self.metric_a
         val_b = self.metric_b.compute() if isinstance(self.metric_b, Metric) else self.metric_b
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ def forward(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
         return self._forward_cache
 
     def reset(self) -> None:
-        """Redirect the call to the input which the conposition was formed from."""
+        """Redirect the call to the input which the composition was formed from."""
         if isinstance(self.metric_a, Metric):
             self.metric_a.reset()
 

src/torchmetrics/segmentation/mean_iou.py

@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ def __init__(
         self.input_format = input_format
 
         num_classes = num_classes - 1 if not include_background else num_classes
-        self.add_state("score", default=torch.zeros(num_classes if per_class else 1), dist_reduce_fx="mean")
+        self.add_state("score", default=torch.zeros(num_classes if per_class else 1), dist_reduce_fx="sum")
+        self.add_state("num_batches", default=torch.tensor(0), dist_reduce_fx="sum")
 
     def update(self, preds: Tensor, target: Tensor) -> None:
         """Update the state with the new data."""
@@ -119,10 +120,11 @@ def update(self, preds: Tensor, target: Tensor) -> None:
         )
         score = _mean_iou_compute(intersection, union, per_class=self.per_class)
         self.score += score.mean(0) if self.per_class else score.mean()
+        self.num_batches += 1
 
     def compute(self) -> Tensor:
-        """Update the state with the new data."""
-        return self.score  # / self.num_batches
+        """Compute the final Mean Intersection over Union (mIoU)."""
+        return self.score / self.num_batches
 
     def plot(self, val: Union[Tensor, Sequence[Tensor], None] = None, ax: Optional[_AX_TYPE] = None) -> _PLOT_OUT_TYPE:
         """Plot a single or multiple values from the metric.

tests/unittests/_helpers/testers.py

@@ -32,15 +32,25 @@ def _assert_allclose(tm_result: Any, ref_result: Any, atol: float = 1e-8, key: O
     """Recursively assert that two results are within a certain tolerance."""
     # single output compare
     if isinstance(tm_result, Tensor):
-        assert np.allclose(tm_result.detach().cpu().numpy(), ref_result, atol=atol, equal_nan=True)
+        assert np.allclose(
+            tm_result.detach().cpu().numpy() if isinstance(tm_result, Tensor) else tm_result,
+            ref_result.detach().cpu().numpy() if isinstance(ref_result, Tensor) else ref_result,
+            atol=atol,
+            equal_nan=True,
+        )
     # multi output compare
     elif isinstance(tm_result, Sequence):
         for pl_res, ref_res in zip(tm_result, ref_result):
             _assert_allclose(pl_res, ref_res, atol=atol)
     elif isinstance(tm_result, Dict):
         if key is None:
             raise KeyError("Provide Key for Dict based metric results.")
-        assert np.allclose(tm_result[key].detach().cpu().numpy(), ref_result, atol=atol, equal_nan=True)
+        assert np.allclose(
+            tm_result[key].detach().cpu().numpy() if isinstance(tm_result[key], Tensor) else tm_result[key],
+            ref_result.detach().cpu().numpy() if isinstance(ref_result, Tensor) else ref_result,
+            atol=atol,
+            equal_nan=True,
+        )
     else:
         raise ValueError("Unknown format for comparison")
 
@@ -147,13 +157,24 @@ def _class_test(
     # verify metrics work after being loaded from pickled state
     pickled_metric = pickle.dumps(metric)
     metric = pickle.loads(pickled_metric)
+    metric_clone = deepcopy(metric)
 
     for i in range(rank, num_batches, world_size):
         batch_kwargs_update = {k: v[i] if isinstance(v, Tensor) else v for k, v in kwargs_update.items()}
 
         # compute batch stats and aggregate for global stats
         batch_result = metric(preds[i], target[i], **batch_kwargs_update)
 
+        if rank == 0 and world_size == 1 and i == 0:  # check only in non-ddp mode and first batch
+            # dummy check to make sure that forward/update works as expected
+            metric_clone.update(preds[i], target[i], **batch_kwargs_update)
+            update_result = metric_clone.compute()
+            if isinstance(batch_result, dict):
+                for key in batch_result:
+                    _assert_allclose(batch_result, update_result[key], key=key)
+            else:
+                _assert_allclose(batch_result, update_result)
+
         if metric.dist_sync_on_step and check_dist_sync_on_step and rank == 0:
             if isinstance(preds, Tensor):
                 ddp_preds = torch.cat([preds[i + r] for r in range(world_size)]).cpu()