Hi Sir,
Same Problem i am also facing as Muhammad_Hasan. here is the below code. I include @Staticmethod in above of forward funtion but still i am getting forward() missing 1 required positional argument: ‘x’.
CODE:
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torch.autograd import Variable
from layers import *
from data import v2
import os
class SSD(nn.Module,x):
“”"Single Shot Multibox Architecture
The network is composed of a base VGG network followed by the
added multibox conv layers.  Each multibox layer branches into
1) conv2d for class conf scores
2) conv2d for localization predictions
3) associated priorbox layer to produce default bounding
boxes specific to the layer’s feature map size.
See: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02325.pdf 6 for more details.
Args:
    phase: (string) Can be "test" or "train"
    base: VGG16 layers for input, size of either 300 or 500
    extras: extra layers that feed to multibox loc and conf layers
    head: "multibox head" consists of loc and conf conv layers
"""

def __init__(self, phase, base, extras, head, num_classes):
    super(SSD, self).__init__()
    self.phase = phase
    self.num_classes = num_classes
    # TODO: implement __call__ in PriorBox
    self.priorbox = PriorBox(v2)
    self.priors = Variable(self.priorbox.forward(), volatile=True)
    self.size = 300

    # SSD network
    self.vgg = nn.ModuleList(base)
    # Layer learns to scale the l2 normalized features from conv4_3
    self.L2Norm = L2Norm(512, 20)
    self.extras = nn.ModuleList(extras)

    self.loc = nn.ModuleList(head[0])
    self.conf = nn.ModuleList(head[1])
   

    if phase == 'test':
        self.softmax = nn.Softmax()
        self.detect = Detect(num_classes, 0, 200, 0.01, 0.45)
    
    
@staticmethod    
def forward(self, x):
    """Applies network layers and ops on input image(s) x.

    Args:
        x: input image or batch of images. Shape: [batch,3*batch,300,300].

    Return:
        Depending on phase:
        test:
            Variable(tensor) of output class label predictions,
            confidence score, and corresponding location predictions for
            each object detected. Shape: [batch,topk,7]

        train:
            list of concat outputs from:
                1: confidence layers, Shape: [batch*num_priors,num_classes]
                2: localization layers, Shape: [batch,num_priors*4]
                3: priorbox layers, Shape: [2,num_priors*4]
    """
    sources = list()
    loc = list()
    conf = list()

    # apply vgg up to conv4_3 relu
    for k in range(23):
        x = self.vgg[k](x)

    s = self.L2Norm(x)
    sources.append(s)

    # apply vgg up to fc7
    for k in range(23, len(self.vgg)):
        x = self.vgg[k](x)
    sources.append(x)

    # apply extra layers and cache source layer outputs
    for k, v in enumerate(self.extras):
        x = F.relu(v(x), inplace=True)
        if k % 2 == 1:
            sources.append(x)

    # apply multibox head to source layers
    for (x, l, c) in zip(sources, self.loc, self.conf):
        loc.append(l(x).permute(0, 2, 3, 1).contiguous())
        conf.append(c(x).permute(0, 2, 3, 1).contiguous())

    loc = torch.cat([o.view(o.size(0), -1) for o in loc], 1)
    conf = torch.cat([o.view(o.size(0), -1) for o in conf], 1)
    if self.phase == "test":
        output = self.detect(
            loc.view(loc.size(0), -1, 4),                   # loc preds
            self.softmax(conf.view(-1, self.num_classes)),  # conf preds
            self.priors.type(type(x.data))                  # default boxes
        )
  
    else:
        output = (
            loc.view(loc.size(0), -1, 4),
            conf.view(conf.size(0), -1, self.num_classes),
            self.priors
        )
        
    
    return output


def load_weights(self, base_file):
    other, ext = os.path.splitext(base_file)
    if ext == '.pkl' or '.pth':
        print('Loading weights into state dict...')
        self.load_state_dict(torch.load(base_file, map_location=lambda storage, loc: storage))
        print('Finished!')
    else:
        print('Sorry only .pth and .pkl files supported.')

This function is derived from torchvision VGG make_layers()
https://github.com/pytorch/vision/blob/master/torchvision/models/vgg.py 9
def vgg(cfg, i, batch_norm=False):
layers = []
in_channels = i
for v in cfg:
if v == ‘M’:
layers += [nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2)]
elif v == ‘C’:
layers += [nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2, stride=2, ceil_mode=True)]
else:
conv2d = nn.Conv2d(in_channels, v, kernel_size=3, padding=1)
if batch_norm:
layers += [conv2d, nn.BatchNorm2d(v), nn.ReLU(inplace=True)]
else:
layers += [conv2d, nn.ReLU(inplace=True)]
in_channels = v
pool5 = nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
conv6 = nn.Conv2d(512, 1024, kernel_size=3, padding=6, dilation=6)
conv7 = nn.Conv2d(1024, 1024, kernel_size=1)
layers += [pool5, conv6,
nn.ReLU(inplace=True), conv7, nn.ReLU(inplace=True)]
return layers
def add_extras(cfg, i, batch_norm=False):
# Extra layers added to VGG for feature scaling
layers = []
in_channels = i
flag = False
for k, v in enumerate(cfg):
if in_channels != ‘S’:
if v == ‘S’:
layers += [nn.Conv2d(in_channels, cfg[k + 1],
kernel_size=(1, 3)[flag], stride=2, padding=1)]
else:
layers += [nn.Conv2d(in_channels, v, kernel_size=(1, 3)[flag])]
flag = not flag
in_channels = v
return layers
def multibox(vgg, extra_layers, cfg, num_classes):
loc_layers = []
conf_layers = []
vgg_source = [24, -2]
for k, v in enumerate(vgg_source):
loc_layers += [nn.Conv2d(vgg[v].out_channels,
cfg[k] * 4, kernel_size=3, padding=1)]
conf_layers += [nn.Conv2d(vgg[v].out_channels,
cfg[k] * num_classes, kernel_size=3, padding=1)]
for k, v in enumerate(extra_layers[1::2], 2):
loc_layers += [nn.Conv2d(v.out_channels, cfg[k]
* 4, kernel_size=3, padding=1)]
conf_layers += [nn.Conv2d(v.out_channels, cfg[k]
* num_classes, kernel_size=3, padding=1)]
return vgg, extra_layers, (loc_layers, conf_layers)
base = {
‘300’: [64, 64, ‘M’, 128, 128, ‘M’, 256, 256, 256, ‘C’, 512, 512, 512, ‘M’,
512, 512, 512],
‘512’: [],
}
extras = {
‘300’: [256, ‘S’, 512, 128, ‘S’, 256, 128, 256, 128, 256],
‘512’: [],
}
mbox = {
‘300’: [4, 6, 6, 6, 4, 4],  # number of boxes per feature map location
‘512’: [],
}
def build_ssd(phase, size=300, num_classes=21):
if phase != “test” and phase != “train”:
print(“Error: Phase not recognized”)
return
if size != 300:
print(“Error: Sorry only SSD300 is supported currently!”)
return
return SSD(phase, *multibox(vgg(base[str(size)], 3),
                            add_extras(extras[str(size)], 1024),
                            mbox[str(size)], num_classes), num_classes)