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TensorRT
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AMD MI300X 30% higher performance than Nvidia H100, even with optimized stack
> It's not rocket science to implement matrix multiplication in any GPU.
You're right, it's harder. Saying this as someone who's done more work on the former than the latter. (I have, with a team, built a rocket engine. And not your school or backyard project size, but nozzle bigger than your face kind. I've also written CUDA kernels and boy is there a big learning curve to the latter that you gotta fundamentally rethink how you view a problem. It's unquestionable why CUDA devs are paid so much. Really it's only questionable why they aren't paid more)
I know it is easy to think this problem is easy, it really looks that way. But there's an incredible amount of optimization that goes into all of this and that's what's really hard. You aren't going to get away with just N for loops for a tensor rank N. You got to chop the data up, be intelligent about it, manage memory, how you load memory, handle many data types, take into consideration different results for different FMA operations, and a whole lot more. There's a whole lot of non-obvious things that result in high optimization (maybe obvious __after__ the fact, but that's not truthfully "obvious"). The thing is, the space is so well researched and implemented that you can't get away with naive implementations, you have to be on the bleeding edge.
Then you have to do that and make it reasonably usable for the programmer too, abstracting away all of that. Cuda also has a huge head start and momentum is not a force to be reckoned with (pun intended).
Look at TensorRT[0]. The software isn't even complete and it still isn't going to cover all neural networks on all GPUs. I've had stuff work on a V100 and H100 but not an A100, then later get fixed. They even have the "Apple Advantage" in that they have control of the hardware. I'm not certain AMD will have the same advantage. We talk a lot about the difficulties of being first mover, but I think we can also recognize that momentum is an advantage of being first mover. And it isn't one to scoff at.
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Getting SDXL-turbo running with tensorRT
(python demo_txt2img.py "a beautiful photograph of Mt. Fuji during cherry blossom"). https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT/tree/release/8.6/demo/Diffusion
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Show HN: Ollama for Linux – Run LLMs on Linux with GPU Acceleration
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT
TVM and other compiler-based approaches seem to really perform really well and make supporting different backends really easy. A good friend who's been in this space for a while told me llama.cpp is sort of a "hand crafted" version of what these compilers could output, which I think speaks to the craftmanship Georgi and the ggml team have put into llama.cpp, but also the opportunity to "compile" versions of llama.cpp for other model architectures or platforms.
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Nvidia Introduces TensorRT-LLM for Accelerating LLM Inference on H100/A100 GPUs
https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT/issues/982
Maybe? Looks like tensorRT does work, but I couldn't find much.
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Train Your AI Model Once and Deploy on Any Cloud
highly optimized transformer-based encoder and decoder component, supported on pytorch, tensorflow and triton
TensorRT, custom ml framework/ inference runtime from nvidia, https://developer.nvidia.com/tensorrt, but you have to port your models
- A1111 just added support for TensorRT for webui as an extension!
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WIP - TensorRT accelerated stable diffusion img2img from mobile camera over webrtc + whisper speech to text. Interdimensional cable is here! Code: https://github.com/venetanji/videosd
It uses the nvidia demo code from: https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT/tree/main/demo/Diffusion
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[P] Get 2x Faster Transcriptions with OpenAI Whisper Large on Kernl
The traditional way to deploy a model is to export it to Onnx, then to TensorRT plan format. Each step requires its own tooling, its own mental model, and may raise some issues. The most annoying thing is that you need Microsoft or Nvidia support to get the best performances, and sometimes model support takes time. For instance, T5, a model released in 2019, is not yet correctly supported on TensorRT, in particular K/V cache is missing (soon it will be according to TensorRT maintainers, but I wrote the very same thing almost 1 year ago and then 4 months ago so… I don’t know).
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Speeding up T5
I've tried to speed it up with TensorRT and followed this example: https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT/blob/main/demo/HuggingFace/notebooks/t5.ipynb - it does give considerable speedup for batch-size=1 but it does not work with bigger batch sizes, which is useless as I can simply increase the batch-size of HuggingFace model.
- demoDiffusion on TensorRT - supports 3090, 4090, and A100
FasterTransformer
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Train Your AI Model Once and Deploy on Any Cloud
https://docs.nvidia.com/ai-enterprise/overview/0.1.0/platfor...
RIVA: NVIDIA® Riva, a premium edition of NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, is a GPU-accelerated speech and translation AI SDK
FasterTransformer: https://github.com/NVIDIA/FasterTransformer an
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Whether the ML computation engineering expertise will be valuable, is the question.
There could be some spectrum of this expertise. For instance, https://github.com/NVIDIA/FasterTransformer, https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed
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Optimized implementation of training/fine-tuning of LLMs [D]
Have anyone tried to optimize the forward and backward using custom Cuda code or fused kernel to speed up the training time of current LLMs? I only have seen FasterTransformer ( NVIDIA/FasterTransformer) and other similar tools but they're only focusing on inference.
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Exploring Ghostwriter, a GitHub Copilot alternative
Replit built Ghostwriter on the open source scene based on Salesforce’s Codegen, using Nvidia’s FasterTransformer and Triton server for highly optimized decoders, and the knowledge distillation process of the CodeGen model from two billion parameters to a faster model of one billion parameters.
- Why are self attention not as deployment friendly?
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[P] What we learned by making T5-large 2X faster than Pytorch (and any autoregressive transformer)
Nvidia FasterTransformer is a mix of Pytorch and CUDA/C++ dedicated code. The performance boost is huge on T5, they report a 10X speedup like TensorRT. However, the speedup is computed on a translation task where sequences are 25 tokens long on average. In our experience, improvement on very short sequences tend to decrease by large margins on longer ones. Still we plan to dig deeper into this project as it implements very interesting ideas.
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[P] Python library to optimize Hugging Face transformer for inference: < 0.5 ms latency / 2850 infer/sec
On the other side of the spectrum, there is Nvidia demos (here or there) showing us how to build manually a full Transformer graph (operator by operator) in TensorRT to get best performance from their hardware. It’s out of reach for many NLP practitioners and it’s time consuming to debug/maintain/adapt to a slightly different architecture (I tried). Plus, there is a secret: the very optimized model only works for specific sequence lengths and batch sizes. Truth is that, so far (and it will improve soon), it’s mainly for MLPerf benchmark (the one used to compare DL hardware), marketing content, and very specialized engineers.
What are some alternatives?
DeepSpeed - DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.
onnxruntime - ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator
onnx-tensorrt - ONNX-TensorRT: TensorRT backend for ONNX
transformer-deploy - Efficient, scalable and enterprise-grade CPU/GPU inference server for 🤗 Hugging Face transformer models 🚀
vllm - A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
parallelformers - Parallelformers: An Efficient Model Parallelization Toolkit for Deployment
openvino - OpenVINO™ is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference
wenet - Production First and Production Ready End-to-End Speech Recognition Toolkit
stable-diffusion-webui - Stable Diffusion web UI
flash-attention - Fast and memory-efficient exact attention
optimum - 🚀 Accelerate training and inference of 🤗 Transformers and 🤗 Diffusers with easy to use hardware optimization tools