Performance assessment of deep learning frameworks through metrics of CPU hardware exploitation on an embedded platform
In this paper, we analyze heterogeneous performance exhibited by some popular deep learning software frameworks for visual inference on a resource-constrained hardware platform. Benchmarking of Caffe, OpenCV, TensorFlow, and Caffe2 is performed on the same set of convolutional neural networks in ter...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/220048 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/220048 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Convolutional neural networks Deep learning Edge inference Embedded vision Hardware performance Software frameworks |
| Sumario: | In this paper, we analyze heterogeneous performance exhibited by some popular deep learning software frameworks for visual inference on a resource-constrained hardware platform. Benchmarking of Caffe, OpenCV, TensorFlow, and Caffe2 is performed on the same set of convolutional neural networks in terms of instantaneous throughput, power consumption, memory footprint, and CPU utilization. To understand the resulting dissimilar behavior, we thoroughly examine how the resources in the processor are differently exploited by these frameworks. We demonstrate that a strong correlation exists between hardware events occurring in the processor and inference performance. The proposedhardware-aware analysis aims to findlimitations andbottlenecks emerging from the jointinteraction offrameworks andnetworks on a particular CPU-based platform. This provides insight into introducing suitable modifications in bothtypes of components to enhance their global performance. It also facilitates the selection of frameworks and networks among a large diversity of these components available these days for visual understanding. |
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