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TPU-MLIR is an open-source machine-learning compiler based on MLIR for TPU. This project provides a complete toolchain, which can convert pre-trained neural networks from different frameworks into binary files bmodel that can be efficiently operated on TPUs.
TPU-MLIR is originally developed by SOPHGO. This company is committed to becoming the world's leading general computing power provider. SOPHGO has inherited the technology, patents, products and customers of BITMAIN in the AI field for many years and focused on the R&D, promotion and application of artificial intelligence chips and related products. It has two major brands: SOPHON and CVITEK. With the self-developed chips as the core, SOPHGO has created a matrix of computing power products, which covers the whole scene of "cloud, edge and terminal" and provides computing power products and overall solutions for urban brains, intelligent computing centers, intelligent security, intelligent transportation, safety production, industrial quality inspection, intelligent terminals and others.
Currently, supported AI frameworks are PyTorch, ONNX, TFLite and Caffe. Models from other frameworks need to be converted to ONNX models.
Here are some resources to help you better understand the project:
| Index | Documents |
|---|---|
| 01 | TPU-MLIR paper |
| 02 | TPU-MLIR Technical Reference Manual |
| 03 | TPU-MLIR Quick Start |
| Index | Sharing Sessions |
|---|---|
| 01 | TPU-MLIR Paper |
| 02 | LayerGroup |
| Index | Topic | Video Links |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | What is AI Compiler? | AI Compiler Intro |
| 02 | MLIR Intro | Basic Syntax (1), Basic Syntax (2), Basic Syntax (3), Dialect Conversion, Pattern Rewriting |
| 03 | TPU-MLIR Intro | Overview, Front-end Conversion, Lowering |
| 04 | Quantization | Overview, Formula Derivation, Calibration, QAT |
| 05 | TPU Memory | Ep1, Ep2 |
| 06 | TPU-MLIR Practice | To Onnx Format, Graph Optimization, Operator Support, Model Support, Fuse Preprocess, Accuracy Validation |
In addition, we also published a series of tasks for any of you interested in our project and would like to develop it with us:
| Index | Tasks |
|---|---|
| 01 | Rewrite Patterns for PermuteOp |
| 02 | Shape Inference Implement |
| 03 | mlir2onnx tool Optimize |
For More tasks please check Issue.
If you have any questions while doing the tasks above, you can ask or check the existing answers in our Q&A Platform.
After cloning the code of this project, it needs to be compiled in docker.
- Download the required image from dockerhub.
docker pull sophgo/tpuc_dev:latest
# myname1234 is just an example, you can set your own name
docker run --privileged --name myname1234 -v $PWD:/workspace -it sophgo/tpuc_dev:latestAfter the container is created, the directory of the code in docker should be /workspace/tpu-mlir.
- Building
Run the following command in the project directory:
cd tpu-mlir
source ./envsetup.sh
./build.shIntroduce the usage of TPU-MLIR by a simple example of compiling yolov5s.onnx and running it on the BM1684X TPU platform.
The model comes from the official website of yolov5: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/releases/download/v6.0/yolov5s.onnx.
It has been placed in project path regression/model/yolov5s.onnx.
Firstly, create a model_yolov5s directory at the same level directory with this project. Then put both model and image files into it.
The operation is as follows:
mkdir model_yolov5s && cd model_yolov5s
cp ${REGRESSION_PATH}/model/yolov5s.onnx .
cp -rf ${REGRESSION_PATH}/dataset/COCO2017 .
cp -rf ${REGRESSION_PATH}/image .
mkdir workspace && cd workspaceIf the model takes images as input, we need to learn its preprocessing before transforming. No preprocessing needs to be considered if the input is npz file. The preprocessing process is formulated as follows:
where x represents the input.
The input of the official yolov5 is RGB image. Each value will be multiplied by 1/255. Mean and scale are 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 and 0.0039216, 0.0039216, 0.0039216 respectively.
The model conversion command:
model_transform.py \
--model_name yolov5s \
--model_def ../yolov5s.onnx \
--input_shapes [[1,3,640,640]] \
--mean 0.0,0.0,0.0 \
--scale 0.0039216,0.0039216,0.0039216 \
--keep_aspect_ratio \
--pixel_format rgb \
--output_names 350,498,646 \
--test_input ../image/dog.jpg \
--test_result yolov5s_top_outputs.npz \
--mlir yolov5s.mlirThe arguments of model_transform.py:
| Argument | Required？ | Description |
|---|---|---|
| model_name | Yes | Model name |
| model_def | Yes | Model definition file (.onnx,.pt,.tflite or .prototxt) |
| model_data | No | Specify the model weight file, required when it is caffe model (corresponding to the '.caffemodel' file) |
| input_shapes | No | The shape of the input, such as [[1,3,640,640]] (a two-dimensional array), which can support multiple inputs |
| resize_dims | No | The size of the original image to be adjusted to. If not specified, it will be resized to the input size of the model |
| keep_aspect_ratio | No | Whether to maintain the aspect ratio when resize. False by default. It will pad 0 to the insufficient part when setting |
| mean | No | The mean of each channel of the image. The default is 0.0,0.0,0.0 |
| scale | No | The scale of each channel of the image. The default is 1.0,1.0,1.0 |
| pixel_format | No | Image type, can be rgb, bgr, gray or rgbd |
| output_names | No | The names of the output. Use the output of the model if not specified, otherwise use the specified names as the output |
| test_input | No | The input file for validation, which can be an image, npy or npz. No validation will be carried out if it is not specified |
| test_result | No | Output file to save validation result |
| excepts | No | Names of network layers that need to be excluded from validation. Separated by comma |
| debug | No | if open debug, immediate model file will keep; or will remove after conversion done |
| mlir | Yes | The output mlir file name (including path) |
After converting to mlir file, a ${model_name}_in_f32.npz file containing preprocessed input will be generated.
Convert the mlir file to the F16 bmodel by the following command:
model_deploy.py \
--mlir yolov5s.mlir \
--quantize F16 \
--chip bm1684x \
--test_input yolov5s_in_f32.npz \
--test_reference yolov5s_top_outputs.npz \
--model yolov5s_1684x_f16.bmodelThe arguments of model_deploy.py:
| Argument | Required？ | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mlir | Yes | Mlir file |
| quantize | Yes | Quantization type (F32/F16/BF16/INT8) |
| chip | Yes | The platform that the model will use. Currently only bm1684x is supported. More TPU platforms will be supported in the future |
| calibration_table | No | The quantization table path. Required when it is INT8 quantization |
| tolerance | No | Tolerance for the minimum similarity between MLIR quantized and MLIR fp32 inference results |
| correctnetss | No | Tolerance for the minimum similarity between simulator and MLIR quantized inference results. 0.99,0.90 by default |
| excepts | No | Names of network layers that need to be excluded from validation. Separated by comma |
| debug | No | if open debug, immediate model file will keep; or will remove after conversion done |
| model | Yes | Name of output model file (including path) |
Before converting to the INT8 model, you need to run calibration to get the calibration table. The number of input data is about 100 to 1000 according to the situation.
Then use the calibration table to generate a symmetric int8 bmodel. It is generally not recommended to use the asymmetric one if the symmetric one already meets the requirements, because the performance of the asymmetric model will be slightly worse than the symmetric model.
Here is an example of the existing 100 images from COCO2017 to perform calibration:
run_calibration.py yolov5s.mlir \
--dataset ../COCO2017 \
--input_num 100 \
-o yolov5s_cali_tableExecute the following command to convert to the INT8 symmetric quantized model:
model_deploy.py \
--mlir yolov5s.mlir \
--quantize INT8 \
--calibration_table yolov5s_cali_table \
--chip bm1684x \
--test_input yolov5s_in_f32.npz \
--test_reference yolov5s_top_outputs.npz \
--tolerance 0.85,0.45 \
--model yolov5s_1684x_int8.bmodelThis project has a yolov5 sample written in python (path: python/samples/detect_yolov5.py) for object detection. Read the code to learn how the model is used:
- preprocess the input
- model inference to get output
- post-process the output
The following code is used to verify the output of onnx/f32/int8 model respectively:
- ONNX model:
detect_yolov5.py \
--input ../image/dog.jpg \
--model ../yolov5s.onnx \
--output dog_origin.jpg- F16 bmodel:
detect_yolov5.py \
--input ../image/dog.jpg \
--model yolov5s_1684x_f16.bmodel \
--output dog_f16.jpg- INT8 symmetric quantized bmodel:
detect_yolov5.py \
--input ../image/dog.jpg \
--model yolov5s_1684x_int8.bmodel \
--output dog_int8.jpgOutputs of different models are compared below:
Supports bmodel/mlir/pytorch/onnx/tflite/caffe.
model_runner.py \
--input resnet18_in_f32.npz \
--model resnet18_1684x_f32.bmodel \
--output resnet18_output.npzThe bmodel file can be viewed and edited by model_tool:
model_tool
--info model_file : show brief model info
--print model_file : show detailed model info
--extract model_file : extract one multi-net bmodel to multi one-net bmodels
--combine file1 .. fileN -o new_file: combine bmodels to one bmodel by filepath
--combine_dir dir1 .. dirN -o new_dir: combine bmodels to one bmodel by directory path
--dump model_file start_offset byte_size out_file: dump binary data to file from bmodel
For example, to get basic information of bmodel:
model_tool --info resnet18_1684x_f32.bmodel