/convnet-benchmarks

Easy benchmarking of all publicly accessible implementations of convnets

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convnet-benchmarks

Easy benchmarking of all public open-source implementations of convnets. A summary is provided in the section below.

Machine: 6-core Intel Core i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz + NVIDIA Titan X + Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64

##Imagenet Winners Benchmarking I pick some popular imagenet models, and I clock the time for a full forward + backward pass. I average my times over 10 runs. I ignored dropout and softmax layers.

######One small note: The CuDNN benchmarks are done using Torch bindings. One can also do the same via Caffe bindings or bindings of any other library. This note is here to clarify that Caffe (native) and Torch (native) are the convolution kernels which are present as a default fallback. Some of the frameworks like TensorFlow and Chainer are benchmarked with CuDNN, but it is not explicitly mentioned, and hence one might think that these frameworks as a whole are faster, than for example Caffe, which might not be the case.

AlexNet (One Weird Trick paper) - Input 128x3x224x224

Library Class Time (ms) forward (ms) backward (ms)
CuDNN[R4]-fp16 (Torch) cudnn.SpatialConvolution 71 25 46
Nervana-neon-fp16 ConvLayer 78 25 52
CuDNN[R4]-fp32 (Torch) cudnn.SpatialConvolution 81 27 53
TensorFlow conv2d 81 26 55
Nervana-neon-fp32 ConvLayer 87 28 58
fbfft (Torch) fbnn.SpatialConvolution 104 31 72
Chainer Convolution2D 177 40 136
cudaconvnet2* ConvLayer 177 42 135
CuDNN[R2] * cudnn.SpatialConvolution 231 70 161
Caffe (native) ConvolutionLayer 324 121 203
Torch-7 (native) SpatialConvolutionMM 342 132 210
CL-nn (Torch) SpatialConvolutionMM 963 388 574
Caffe-CLGreenTea ConvolutionLayer 1442 210 1232

Overfeat [fast] - Input 128x3x231x231

Library Class Time (ms) forward (ms) backward (ms)
Nervana-neon-fp16 ConvLayer 176 58 118
Nervana-neon-fp32 ConvLayer 211 69 141
CuDNN[R4]-fp16 (Torch) cudnn.SpatialConvolution 242 86 156
CuDNN[R4]-fp32 (Torch) cudnn.SpatialConvolution 268 94 174
TensorFlow conv2d 279 90 189
fbfft (Torch) SpatialConvolutionCuFFT 342 114 227
Chainer Convolution2D 620 135 484
cudaconvnet2* ConvLayer 723 176 547
CuDNN[R2] * cudnn.SpatialConvolution 810 234 576
Caffe ConvolutionLayer 823 355 468
Torch-7 (native) SpatialConvolutionMM 878 379 499
CL-nn (Torch) SpatialConvolutionMM 963 388 574
Caffe-CLGreenTea ConvolutionLayer 2857 616 2240

OxfordNet [Model-A] - Input 64x3x224x224

Library Class Time (ms) forward (ms) backward (ms)
Nervana-neon-fp16 ConvLayer 254 82 171
Nervana-neon-fp32 ConvLayer 320 103 217
CuDNN[R4]-fp16 (Torch) cudnn.SpatialConvolution 471 140 331
CuDNN[R4]-fp32 (Torch) cudnn.SpatialConvolution 529 162 366
TensorFlow conv2d 540 158 382
Chainer Convolution2D 885 251 632
fbfft (Torch) SpatialConvolutionCuFFT 1092 355 737
cudaconvnet2* ConvLayer 1229 408 821
CuDNN[R2] * cudnn.SpatialConvolution 1099 342 757
Caffe ConvolutionLayer 1068 323 745
Torch-7 (native) SpatialConvolutionMM 1105 350 755
CL-nn (Torch) SpatialConvolutionMM 3437 875 2562
Caffe-CLGreenTea ConvolutionLayer 5620 988 4632

GoogleNet V1 - Input 128x3x224x224

Library Class Time (ms) forward (ms) backward (ms)
Nervana-neon-fp16 ConvLayer 230 72 157
Nervana-neon-fp32 ConvLayer 270 84 186
TensorFlow conv2d 445 135 310
CuDNN[R4]-fp16 (Torch) cudnn.SpatialConvolution 462 112 349
CuDNN[R4]-fp32 (Torch) cudnn.SpatialConvolution 470 130 340
Chainer Convolution2D 687 189 497
Caffe ConvolutionLayer 1935 786 1148
CL-nn (Torch) SpatialConvolutionMM 7016 3027 3988
Caffe-CLGreenTea ConvolutionLayer 9462 746 8716

Layer-wise Benchmarking (Last Updated April 2015)

###Spatial Convolution layer (3D input 3D output, densely connected)

forward + backprop (wrt input and weights)
Original Library Class/Function Benchmarked Time (ms) forward (ms) backward (ms)
fbfft SpatialConvolutionCuFFT 256 101 155
cuda-convnet2 * ConvLayer 977 201 776
cuda-convnet** pylearn2.cuda_convnet 1077 312 765
CuDNN R2 * cudnn.SpatialConvolution 1019 269 750
Theano CorrMM 1225 407 818
Caffe ConvolutionLayer 1231 396 835
Torch-7 SpatialConvolutionMM 1265 418 877
DeepCL ConvolutionLayer 6280 2648 3632
cherry-picking**** best per layer 235 79 155

This table is NOT UPDATED For TITAN-X. These numbers below were on Titan Black and are here only for informational and legacy purposes.

Original Library Class/Function Benchmarked Time (ms) forward (ms) backward (ms)
Theano (experimental)*** conv2d_fft 1178 304 874
Torch-7 nn.SpatialConvolutionBHWD 1892 581 1311
ccv ccv_convnet_layer 809+bw 809
Theano (legacy) conv2d 70774 3833 66941
  • * indicates that the library was tested with Torch bindings of the specific kernels.
  • ** indicates that the library was tested with Pylearn2 bindings.
  • *** This is an experimental module which used FFT to calculate convolutions. It uses a lot of memory according to @benanne
  • **** The last row shows results obtainable when choosing the best-performing library for each layer.
  • L1 - Input: 128x128 Batch-size 128, Feature maps: 3->96, Kernel Size: 11x11, Stride: 1x1
  • L2 - Input: 64x64 Batch-size 128, Feature maps: 64->128, Kernel Size: 9x9, Stride: 1x1
  • L3 - Input: 32x32 Batch-size 128, Feature maps: 128->128, Kernel Size: 9x9, Stride: 1x1
  • L4 - Input: 16x16 Batch-size 128, Feature maps: 128->128, Kernel Size: 7x7, Stride: 1x1
  • L5 - Input: 13x13 Batch-size 128, Feature maps: 384->384, Kernel Size: 3x3, Stride: 1x1
  • The table is ranked according to the total time forward+backward calls for layers (L1 + L2 + L3 + L4 + L5)

#####Breakdown

forward

Columns L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, Total are times in milliseconds

Original Library Class/Function Benchmarked L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 Total
fbfft SpatialConvolutionCuFFT 57 27 6 2 9 101
cuda-convnet2 * ConvLayer 36 113 40 4 8 201
cuda-convnet** pylearn2.cuda_convnet 38 183 68 7 16 312
CuDNN R2 cudnn.SpatialConvolution 56 143 53 6 11 269
Theano CorrMM 91 143 121 24 28 407
Caffe ConvolutionLayer<Dtype> 93 136 116 24 27 396
Torch-7 nn.SpatialConvolutionMM 94 149 123 24 28 418
DeepCL ConvolutionLayer 738 1241 518 47 104 2648
cherry-picking**** best per layer 36 27 6 2 8 79
backward (gradInput + gradWeight)

Columns L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, Total are times in milliseconds

Original Library Class/Function Benchmarked L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 Total
fbfft SpatialConvolutionCuFFT 76 45 12 4 18 155
cuda-convnet2 * ConvLayer 103 467 162 15 29 776
cuda-convnet** pylearn2.cuda_convnet 136 433 147 15 34 765
CuDNN R2 cudnn.SpatialConvolution 139 401 159 19 32 750
Theano CorrMM 179 405 174 29 31 818
Caffe ConvolutionLayer<Dtype> 200 405 172 28 30 835
Torch-7 nn.SpatialConvolutionMM 206 432 178 29 32 877
DeepCL ConvolutionLayer 484 2144 747 59 198 3632
cherry-picking**** best per layer 76 45 12 4 18 155