soumith/convnet-benchmarks
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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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…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 -
…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 -
…neural network kernels (which AFAIK haven't been updated since) are still the fastests available: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
comment by nl · 2018-08-09 · in Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent researchers -
…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 -
…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…
comment by nl · 2016-10-26 · in Cognitive Toolkit beta for deep learning advances -
There is another nice one here: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
comment by TheAlchemist · 2016-09-07 · in Simple Deep Learning Benchmark -
…TesnorFlow in AlexNet and ResNet. There is a set of benchmarks for many DL approaches as found in https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
comment by breezest · 2016-08-27 · in Benchmarking State-Of-the-Art Deep Learning Software Tools -
…to head 3rd party benchmarking fights like Soumith Chintala's fantastic convnet benchmark data: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
comment by scottlegrand · 2016-08-17 · in Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes -
…have separate benchmarks for Soumith's convnet comparison that show it to be significantly slower? https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
comment by vonnik · 2016-07-24 · in Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary -
What's Deep Learning 4J's performance on the Soumith benchmarks? https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
comment by AlexCoventry · 2016-07-10 · in Generating Recommendations at Amazon Scale with Apache Spark and Amazon DSSTNE -
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%).
comment by krasin · 2016-05-31 · in TensorFlow – Consise Examples for Beginners -
…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.
comment by micro_cam · 2016-05-18 · in Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip -
…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…
comment by varelse · 2016-05-08 · in NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series -
…(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…
comment by varelse · 2016-05-07 · in NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series -
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…
comment by vrv · 2016-04-13 · in Announcing TensorFlow 0.8 – now with distributed computing support -
…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…
comment by dgacmu · 2016-04-13 · in Announcing TensorFlow 0.8 – now with distributed computing support -
…implementations is probably worth noting in this context. They perform (speed-wise) pretty well: https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
comment by nl · 2016-03-20 · in XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks -
…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
comment by emcq · 2016-03-08 · in Leaf: Machine learning framework in Rust -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
Can't wait for sousmith's take https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/issues
comment by blazespin · 2016-01-26 · in Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub -
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 -
…but that doesn't help, since most people use nVidia (eg, Amazon GPU instances are nVidia based) [1] https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
comment by nl · 2015-11-11 · in Leaf: machine intelligence framework in Rust -
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] -
…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…
comment by varelse · 2015-09-26 · in Fast Convolutional Nets with Fbfft: A GPU Performance Evaluation -
…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 -
…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...
comment by fchollet · 2015-05-12 · in Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python -
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 -
…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…
comment by benanne · 2014-09-29 · in Nvidia Introduces CuDNN, a CUDA-based Library for Deep Neural Networks -
…. 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…
comment by ajtulloch · 2014-09-29 · in Nvidia Introduces CuDNN, a CUDA-based Library for Deep Neural Networks