FLIQS: One-Shot Mixed-Precision Floating-Point and Integer Quantization Search

no code implementations • 7 Aug 2023 • Jordan Dotzel, Gang Wu, Andrew Li, Muhammad Umar, Yun Ni, Mohamed S. Abdelfattah, Zhiru Zhang, Liqun Cheng, Martin G. Dixon, Norman P. Jouppi, Quoc V. Le, Sheng Li

With integer models, we increase the accuracy of ResNet-18 on ImageNet by 1. 31% and ResNet-50 by 0. 90% with equivalent model cost over previous methods.

Quantization

TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings

no code implementations • 4 Apr 2023 • Norman P. Jouppi, George Kurian, Sheng Li, Peter Ma, Rahul Nagarajan, Lifeng Nai, Nishant Patil, Suvinay Subramanian, Andy Swing, Brian Towles, Cliff Young, Xiang Zhou, Zongwei Zhou, David Patterson

For similar sized systems, it is ~4. 3x-4. 5x faster than the Graphcore IPU Bow and is 1. 2x-1. 7x faster and uses 1. 3x-1. 9x less power than the Nvidia A100.

Searching for Fast Model Families on Datacenter Accelerators

no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Sheng Li, Mingxing Tan, Ruoming Pang, Andrew Li, Liqun Cheng, Quoc Le, Norman P. Jouppi

On top of our DC accelerator optimized neural architecture search space, we further propose a latency-aware compound scaling (LACS), the first multi-objective compound scaling method optimizing both accuracy and latency.

Neural Architecture Search

In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit

no code implementations • 16 Apr 2017 • Norman P. Jouppi, Cliff Young, Nishant Patil, David Patterson, Gaurav Agrawal, Raminder Bajwa, Sarah Bates, Suresh Bhatia, Nan Boden, Al Borchers, Rick Boyle, Pierre-luc Cantin, Clifford Chao, Chris Clark, Jeremy Coriell, Mike Daley, Matt Dau, Jeffrey Dean, Ben Gelb, Tara Vazir Ghaemmaghami, Rajendra Gottipati, William Gulland, Robert Hagmann, C. Richard Ho, Doug Hogberg, John Hu, Robert Hundt, Dan Hurt, Julian Ibarz, Aaron Jaffey, Alek Jaworski, Alexander Kaplan, Harshit Khaitan, Andy Koch, Naveen Kumar, Steve Lacy, James Laudon, James Law, Diemthu Le, Chris Leary, Zhuyuan Liu, Kyle Lucke, Alan Lundin, Gordon MacKean, Adriana Maggiore, Maire Mahony, Kieran Miller, Rahul Nagarajan, Ravi Narayanaswami, Ray Ni, Kathy Nix, Thomas Norrie, Mark Omernick, Narayana Penukonda, Andy Phelps, Jonathan Ross, Matt Ross, Amir Salek, Emad Samadiani, Chris Severn, Gregory Sizikov, Matthew Snelham, Jed Souter, Dan Steinberg, Andy Swing, Mercedes Tan, Gregory Thorson, Bo Tian, Horia Toma, Erick Tuttle, Vijay Vasudevan, Richard Walter, Walter Wang, Eric Wilcox, Doe Hyun Yoon

Our workload, written in the high-level TensorFlow framework, uses production NN applications (MLPs, CNNs, and LSTMs) that represent 95% of our datacenters' NN inference demand.