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transformer-deploy
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[D] How to get the fastest PyTorch inference and what is the "best" model serving framework?
For 2), I am aware of a few options. Triton inference server is an obvious one as is the ‘transformer-deploy’ version from LDS. My only reservation here is that they require the model compilation or are architecture specific. I am aware of others like Bento, Ray serving and TorchServe. Ideally I would have something that allows any (PyTorch model) to be used without the extra compilation effort (or at least optionally) and has some convenience things like ease of use, easy to deploy, easy to host multiple models and can perform some dynamic batching. Anyway, I am really interested to hear people's experience here as I know there are now quite a few options! Any help is appreciated! Disclaimer - I have no affiliation or are connected in any way with the libraries or companies listed here. These are just the ones I know of. Thanks in advance.
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[P] Up to 12X faster GPU inference on Bert, T5 and other transformers with OpenAI Triton kernels
We work for Lefebvre Sarrut, a leading European legal publisher. Several of our products include transformer models in latency sensitive scenarios (search, content recommendation). So far, ONNX Runtime and TensorRT served us well, and we learned interesting patterns along the way that we shared with the community through an open-source library called transformer-deploy. However, recent changes in our environment made our needs evolve:
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Convert Pegasus model to ONNX [Discussion]
here you will find a notebook for T5 on GPU with some tricks to make it fast: https://github.com/ELS-RD/transformer-deploy/blob/main/demo/generative-model/t5.ipynb
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[P] What we learned by benchmarking TorchDynamo (PyTorch team), ONNX Runtime and TensorRT on transformers model (inference)
Check the notebook https://github.com/ELS-RD/transformer-deploy/blob/main/demo/TorchDynamo/benchmark.ipynb for detailed results, but what we will keep in mind:
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[P] What we learned by making T5-large 2X faster than Pytorch (and any autoregressive transformer)
notebook: https://github.com/ELS-RD/transformer-deploy/blob/main/demo/generative-model/t5.ipynb (Onnx Runtime only)
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[P] 4.5 times faster Hugging Face transformer inference by modifying some Python AST
Regarding CPU inference, quantization is very easy, and supported by Transformer-deploy , however performance on transformer are very low outside corner cases (like no batch, very short sequence and distilled model), and last Intel generation CPU based instance like C6 or M6 on AWS are quite expensive compared to a cheap GPU like Nvidia T4, to say it otherwise, on transformer, until you are ok with slow inference and takes a small instance (for a PoC for instance), CPU inference is probably not a good idea.
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[P] First ever tuto to perform *GPU* quantization on 🤗 Hugging Face transformer models -> 2X faster inference
The end to end tutorial: https://github.com/ELS-RD/transformer-deploy/blob/main/demo/quantization_end_to_end.ipynb
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[P] Python library to optimize Hugging Face transformer for inference: < 0.5 ms latency / 2850 infer/sec
Want to try it 👉 https://github.com/ELS-RD/transformer-deploy
torchdynamo
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[D] How to get the fastest PyTorch inference and what is the "best" model serving framework?
For 1), what is the easiest way to speed up inference (assume only PyTorch and primarily GPU but also some CPU)? I have been using ONNX and Torchscript but there is a bit of a learning curve and sometimes it can be tricky to get the model to actually work. Is there anything else worth trying? I am enthused by things like TorchDynamo (although I have not tested it extensively) due to its apparent ease of use. I also saw the post yesterday about Kernl using (OpenAI) Triton kernels to speed up transformer models which also looks interesting. Are things like SageMaker Neo or NeuralMagic worth trying? My only reservation with some of these is they still seem to be pretty model/architecture specific. I am a little reluctant to put much time into these unless I know others have had some success first.
What are some alternatives?
TensorRT - NVIDIA® TensorRT™ is an SDK for high-performance deep learning inference on NVIDIA GPUs. This repository contains the open source components of TensorRT.
kernl - Kernl lets you run PyTorch transformer models several times faster on GPU with a single line of code, and is designed to be easily hackable.
FasterTransformer - Transformer related optimization, including BERT, GPT
serve - Serve, optimize and scale PyTorch models in production
torch2trt - An easy to use PyTorch to TensorRT converter
server - The Triton Inference Server provides an optimized cloud and edge inferencing solution.
TensorRT - PyTorch/TorchScript/FX compiler for NVIDIA GPUs using TensorRT
openai-whisper-cpu - Improving transcription performance of OpenAI Whisper for CPU based deployment
OpenSeeFace - Robust realtime face and facial landmark tracking on CPU with Unity integration
deepsparse - Sparsity-aware deep learning inference runtime for CPUs
mmrazor - OpenMMLab Model Compression Toolbox and Benchmark.
BentoML - The most flexible way to serve AI/ML models in production - Build Model Inference Service, LLM APIs, Inference Graph/Pipelines, Compound AI systems, Multi-Modal, RAG as a Service, and more!