Neural Network Inference on Mobile SoCs
The ever-increasing demand from mobile Machine Learning (ML) applications calls for evermore powerful on-chip computing resources. Mobile devices are empowered with Heterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems on Chips (HMPSoCs) to process ML workloads such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) inference. HMPSoCs house several different types of ML capable components on-die, such as CPU, GPU, and accelerators. These different components are capable of independently performing inference but with very different power-performance characteristics. In this article, we provide a quantitative evaluation of the inference capabilities of the different components on HMPSoCs. We also present insights behind their respective power-performance behaviour. Finally, we explore the …
24 Aug 2019 ... ... and GPUs, Facebook NNPACK and QNNPACK for mobile CPUs. These libraries usually optimize with the detailed architectural information.