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– Inference: Tiny

v1.0 Results

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Overview

This benchmark suite measures how fast systems can process inputs and produce results using a trained model. Below is a short summary of the current benchmarks and metrics. Please see the MLPerf Inference benchmark paper for a detailed description of the motivation and guiding principles behind the benchmark suite.

Scenarios and Metrics

In order to enable representative testing of a wide variety of inference platforms and use cases, MLPerf has defined four different scenarios as described below. A given scenario is evaluated by a standard load generator generating inference requests in a particular pattern and measuring a specific metric.

Scenario Query Generation Duration Samples/query Latency Constraint Tail Latency Performance Metric
Single stream LoadGen sends next query as soon as SUT completes the previous query 1024 queries and 60 seconds 1 None 90% 90%-ile measured latency
Multiple stream (1.1 and earlier) LoadGen sends a new query every latency constraint if the SUT has completed the prior query, otherwise the new query is dropped and is counted as one overtime query 270,336 queries and 60 seconds Variable, see metric Benchmark specific 99% Maximum number of inferences per query supported
Multiple stream (2.0 and later) Loadgen sends next query, as soon as SUT completes the previous query 270,336 queries and 600 seconds 8 None 99% 99%-ile measured latency
Server LoadGen sends new queries to the SUT according to a Poisson distribution 270,336 queries and 60 seconds 1 Benchmark specific 99% Maximum Poisson throughput parameter supported
Offline LoadGen sends all queries to the SUT at start 1 query and 60 seconds At least 24,576 None N/A Measured throughput

Benchmarks

Each benchmark is defined by a Dataset and Quality Target. The following table summarizes the benchmarks in this version of the suite (the rules remain the official source of truth):

Task Dataset Model Mode Quality
Keyword Spotting Google Speech Commands DS-CNN Single stream 90% (Top 1)
Visual Wake Words Visual Wake Words Dataset MobileNetV1 0.25x Single stream 80% (Top 1)
Image classification CIFAR10 ResNet-8 Single stream 85% (Top 1)
Anomaly Detection ToyADMOS Deep AutoEncoder Single Stream 0.85 (AUC)

All MLPerf Tiny benchmarks are single stream, meaning they measure the latency of a single inference. The benchmarks also measure the model quality, which is either accuracy or AUC depending on the benchmark. MLPerf Tiny also enables optional energy benchmarking.

Divisions

MLPerf aims to encourage innovation in software as well as hardware by allowing submitters to reimplement the reference implementations. MLPerf has two Divisions that allow different levels of flexibility during reimplementation. The Closed division is intended to compare hardware platforms or software frameworks “apples-to-apples” and requires using the same model as the reference implementation. The Open division is intended to foster innovation and allows using a different model or retraining.

Availability

MLPerf divides benchmark results into Categories based on availability.

  • Available systems contain only components that are available for purchase or for rent in the cloud.
  • Preview systems must be submittable as Available in the next submission round.
  • Research, Development, or Internal (RDI) contain experimental, in development, or internal-use hardware or software.

Submission Information

Each row in the results table is a set of results produced by a single submitter
using the same software stack and hardware platform. Each Closed division row contains the following information:

  • Submitter: The organization that submitted the results.
  • Device: General system description.
  • Processor and count: The type and number of CPUs used, if CPUs perform the majority of ML compute.
  • Accelerator and count: The type and number of accelerators used, if accelerators perform the majority of ML compute.
  • Software: The ML framework and primary ML hardware library used.
  • Benchmark Results: Results for each benchmark as described above.
  • Details: link to metadata for submission.
  • Code: link to code for submission.
    Each Open division row may add the following information:
  • Model used: The model used to produce the results, which may or may not match the Closed Division requirement.
  • Accuracy/AUC: The accuracy/AUC measured on the device. This does not have to meet the closed division quality threshold.

Rules

The MLPerf Tiny rules are available here.

Reference implementations

The reference implementations for the benchmarks are here.