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Easy benchmarking of all publicly accessible implementations of convnets

36 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 5 stories, 31 comments · first 2014-09-29 · latest 2025-11-07

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  1. …expert so let's talk about CuDNN where optimizing convolution is all about memory layout, source: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/issues/93#issu... and it's not about C vs C++ vs PTX. Or let's hear about what Nvidia says…
    comment by mratsim · 2020-04-22 · in A possible new back end for Rust
  2. …who implemented Winograd convolution for Nervana Neon (which interestingly was CHWN so batch last): https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/issues/93#issu...
    comment by mratsim · 2020-04-22 · in PyTorch 1.5
  3. …neural network kernels (which AFAIK haven't been updated since) are still the fastests available: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
  4. …e.g., see their different optimizers [3] [1]: http://stsievert.com/blog/2017/09/07/pytorch/ [2]: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks [3]: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/tree/master/torch/optim [4]:…
    comment by skierscott · 2017-09-29 · in MILA and the future of Theano
  5. …has replicated these claims. MS hasn't got it in the standard CNN inference benchmark yet though: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks . This is the benchmark that showed how slow TensorFlow was on non-Google libraries until…
  6. There is another nice one here: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
    comment by TheAlchemist · 2016-09-07 · in Simple Deep Learning Benchmark
  7. …TesnorFlow in AlexNet and ResNet. There is a set of benchmarks for many DL approaches as found in https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
  8. …to head 3rd party benchmarking fights like Soumith Chintala's fantastic convnet benchmark data: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
  9. …have separate benchmarks for Soumith's convnet comparison that show it to be significantly slower? https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
  10. What's Deep Learning 4J's performance on the Soumith benchmarks? https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
  11. These are the benchmarks supported by Soumith Chintala (Facebook AI Research): https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks They place TensorFlow performance on par with Torch (within 10%).
  12. …this so it's actually sort of the least locked in framework. [1] It has been climbing the charts at https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks for example.
  13. …with TitanX/GTX 980 TI now topping 5000 images/s. GTX 1080 will only be faster than this and $600. https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks And so far, no FPGA training numbers. But here are some distributed training numbers for…
  14. …(Deep Learning's most prominent benchmark): https://github.com/amd/OpenCL-caffe versus GTX TitanX: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks TLDR: AMD losing by a factor of 2 or more... So unless this changes dramatically, NVIDIA IMO…
  15. And even those numbers on the front page are out of date :) (we're even faster now: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/pull/96 , which is from a few weeks ago.) The field is moving quickly enough that many published benchmarks…
  16. …of date - it benchmarked the CuDNNv2 version. Soumith's convnet-benchmarks is much more up-to-date: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks but it hasn't yet been updated to reflect the latest performance improvements in 0.8. We've…
  17. …implementations is probably worth noting in this context. They perform (speed-wise) pretty well: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
  18. …about distributed computing performance [3]. [0] http://autumnai.com/deep-learning-benchmarks [1] https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks [2] https://github.com/NervanaSystems/neon [3] http://alex.smola.org/talks/NIPS15.pdf
  19. …could publish with confidence yet. [1]: https://github.com/autumnai/deep-learning-benchmarks [2]: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
    comment by hobofan · 2016-03-08 · in Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust
  20. …be quite easy, if the kernels exist. [1]: https://github.com/autumnai/deep-learning-benchmarks [2]: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks [3]: https://github.com/autumnai/collenchyma-nn
    comment by mjhirn · 2016-03-08 · in Machine Learning in Rust
  21. …models in rust. For more benchmarks (including updated TensorFlow performance with cudnn v4) see https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
    comment by jimfleming · 2016-03-04 · in Deep Learning Benchmarks
  22. Can't wait for sousmith's take https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/issues
  23. According to: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks , it's an NVIDIA TitanX (12GB GPU memory), which is pretty much the top of the line GPU for training neural nets. From my limited experience, most deep learning in research -…
    comment by brianchu · 2015-11-11 · in TensorFlow Benchmarks
  24. …but that doesn't help, since most people use nVidia (eg, Amazon GPU instances are nVidia based) [1] https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
  25. Here's a page with various benchmarks: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks An issue has been created to add TensorFlow to this shortly.
    comment by miket · 2015-11-10 · in Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]
  26. …NVIDIA is the best way to get them to address deficiencies like this. This is mostly already fixed: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks Check out the huge speedup between cuDNN(R2) and cuDNN(R3). Also, while there is some…
  27. …for speed, here's some benchmarks of different libraries on ImageNet and convolutional layers: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
    comment by betelgeusem · 2015-08-05 · in Faster deep learning with GPUs and Theano
  28. …will actually use cuDNN if available, and performance will be slightly better than Torch and Caffe: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks#layer-wise-ben...
  29. There are some benchmarks of a neural network toolkit built on top of this: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks compare NVIDIA's own cuDNN R2 versus NervanaSys-16 and NervanaSys-32. Pretty impressive! I've also tried out his GEMM…
    comment by benanne · 2015-05-04 · in Assembler for Nvidia Maxwell architecture
  30. …Chintala maintains a GitHub repository with benchmarks of various convolution implementations: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks His results aren't that spectacular either. In my own experiments cuDNN did pretty well for very…
  31. …. There are some benchmarks for the convolutional layers of a classic AlexNet model at https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks . In general, the question which is the fastest public implementation of spatial convolution is so heavily…