ACON activation function (#2893)

* ACON Activation Function

## 🚀 Feature

There is a new activation function [ACON (CVPR 2021)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04759.pdf) that unifies ReLU and Swish.
ACON is simple but very effective, code is here: https://github.com/nmaac/acon/blob/main/acon.py#L19


The improvements are very significant:

## Alternatives

It also has an enhanced version meta-ACON that uses a small network to learn beta explicitly, which may influence the speed a bit.

## Additional context

[Code](https://github.com/nmaac/acon) and [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04759.pdf).

* Update activations.py

utils/activations.py

@@ -19,23 +19,6 @@ class Hardswish(nn.Module):  # export-friendly version of nn.Hardswish()
         return x * F.hardtanh(x + 3, 0., 6.) / 6.  # for torchscript, CoreML and ONNX
 
 
-class MemoryEfficientSwish(nn.Module):
-    class F(torch.autograd.Function):
-        @staticmethod
-        def forward(ctx, x):
-            ctx.save_for_backward(x)
-            return x * torch.sigmoid(x)
-
-        @staticmethod
-        def backward(ctx, grad_output):
-            x = ctx.saved_tensors[0]
-            sx = torch.sigmoid(x)
-            return grad_output * (sx * (1 + x * (1 - sx)))
-
-    def forward(self, x):
-        return self.F.apply(x)
-
-
 # Mish https://github.com/digantamisra98/Mish --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 class Mish(nn.Module):
     @staticmethod
@@ -70,3 +53,44 @@ class FReLU(nn.Module):
 
     def forward(self, x):
         return torch.max(x, self.bn(self.conv(x)))
+
+
+# ACON https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04759.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+class AconC(nn.Module):
+    r""" ACON activation (activate or not).
+    AconC: (p1*x-p2*x) * sigmoid(beta*(p1*x-p2*x)) + p2*x, beta is a learnable parameter
+    according to "Activate or Not: Learning Customized Activation" <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04759.pdf>.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, c1):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.p1 = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(1, c1, 1, 1))
+        self.p2 = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(1, c1, 1, 1))
+        self.beta = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(1, c1, 1, 1))
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        dpx = (self.p1 - self.p2) * x
+        return dpx * torch.sigmoid(self.beta * dpx) + self.p2 * x
+
+
+class MetaAconC(nn.Module):
+    r""" ACON activation (activate or not).
+    MetaAconC: (p1*x-p2*x) * sigmoid(beta*(p1*x-p2*x)) + p2*x, beta is generated by a small network
+    according to "Activate or Not: Learning Customized Activation" <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04759.pdf>.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, c1, k=1, s=1, r=16):  # ch_in, kernel, stride, r
+        super().__init__()
+        c2 = max(r, c1 // r)
+        self.p1 = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(1, c1, 1, 1))
+        self.p2 = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(1, c1, 1, 1))
+        self.fc1 = nn.Conv2d(c1, c2, k, s, bias=False)
+        self.bn1 = nn.BatchNorm2d(c2)
+        self.fc2 = nn.Conv2d(c2, c1, k, s, bias=False)
+        self.bn2 = nn.BatchNorm2d(c1)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        y = x.mean(dim=2, keepdims=True).mean(dim=3, keepdims=True)
+        beta = torch.sigmoid(self.bn2(self.fc2(self.bn1(self.fc1(y)))))
+        dpx = (self.p1 - self.p2) * x
+        return dpx * torch.sigmoid(beta * dpx) + self.p2 * x