tutorial.md

Tutorial

This tutorial provides instructions (with examples) on how to integrate models with Intel® Neural Compressor.

The following diagram shows steps for enabling model with Neural Compressor:

Usage Examples

To write launcher code, a user needs to prepare four components:

• Dataloader/Dataset
• Model
• Postprocess optional
• Metric

Neural Compressor constructs the whole quantization/pruning process using these four components.

Neural Compressor has added built-in support for popular dataloaders/datasets and metrics to ease the preparation. Refer to dataset and metric to learn how to use them in yaml.

Neural Compressor also supports registering custom datasets and custom metrics by code.

As for model, Neural Compressor abstract a common API, named neural_compressor.experimental.common.Model, to cover the case in which model, weight, and other necessary info are separately stored. Refer to model to learn how to use it.

Postprocess is treated as a special transform by Neural Compressor which is only needed when a model output is mismatching with the expected input of Neural Compressor built-in metrics. If a user is using a custom metric, the postprocess is not needed as the custom metric implementation needed ensures it can handle the model output correctly. On the other hand, the postprocess logic becomes part of the custom metric implementation.

The example below shows how to enable Neural Compressor on TensorFlow mobilenet_v1 with a built-in dataloader, dataset, and metric.

# main.py
from neural_compressor.experimental import Quantization, common
quantizer = Quantization('./conf.yaml')
quantizer.model = common.Model("./mobilenet_v1_1.0_224_frozen.pb")
quantized_model = quantizer()

Quantization also support Quantization_Conf class as it's argument:

# main.py
from lpot.experimental import Quantization, common
from lpot.conf.config import Quantization_Conf
conf = Quantization_Conf('./conf.yaml')
quantizer = Quantization(conf)
quantizer.model = common.Model("./mobilenet_v1_1.0_224_frozen.pb")
quantized_model = quantizer()

# conf.yaml
model:
  name: mobilenet_v1 
  framework: tensorflow
quantization:
  calibration:
    sampling_size: 20
    dataloader:
      batch_size: 1
      dataset:
        ImageRecord:
          root: /path/to/imagenet/
      transform:
        ParseDecodeImagenet: {}
        BilinearImagenet: 
          height: 224
          width: 224
evaluation:
  accuracy:
    metric:
      topk: 1
    dataloader:
      batch_size: 32 
      dataset:
        ImageRecord:
          root: /path/to/imagenet/
      transform:
        ParseDecodeImagenet: {}
        BilinearImagenet: 
          height: 224
          width: 224

In this example, we use an Neural Compressor built-in ImageRecord dataset and a topk metric.

If the user wants to use a dataset or metric that is not supported by built-in, the user can register a custom one as demonstrated in the below helloworld example.

# main.py
from neural_compressor.experimental import Quantization, common

class Dataset(object):
  def __init__(self):
      (train_images, train_labels), (test_images,
                 test_labels) = keras.datasets.fashion_mnist.load_data()
      self.test_images = test_images.astype(np.float32) / 255.0
      self.labels = test_labels
  def __getitem__(self, index):
      return self.test_images[index], self.labels[index]
  def __len__(self):
      return len(self.test_images)

# Define a customized Metric function 
class MyMetric(object):
  def __init__(self, *args):
      self.pred_list = []
      self.label_list = []
      self.samples = 0
  def update(self, predict, label):
      self.pred_list.extend(np.argmax(predict, axis=1))
      self.label_list.extend(label)
      self.samples += len(label)
  def reset(self):
      self.pred_list = []
      self.label_list = []
      self.samples = 0
  def result(self):
      correct_num = np.sum(
            np.array(self.pred_list) == np.array(self.label_list))
      return correct_num / self.samples

# Quantize with customized dataloader and metric
quantizer = Quantization('./conf.yaml')
dataset = Dataset()
quantizer.metric = common.Metric(MyMetric)
quantizer.calib_dataloader = common.DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=1)
quantizer.eval_dataloader = common.DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=1)
quantizer.model = common.Model('../models/simple_model')
q_model = quantizer()

Note

In the customized dataset, the __getitem__() interface must be implemented and return a single sample and label. In this example, it returns the (image, label) pair. The user can return (image, 0) for a label-free case.

In the customized metric, the update() function records the predicted result of each mini-batch. The result() function is invoked by Neural Compressor at the end of the evaluation to return a scalar to reflect model accuracy. By default, this scalar is higher-is-better. If this scalar returned from the customized metric is a lower-is-better value, tuning.accuracy_criterion.higher_is_better in yaml should be set to False.

# conf.yaml
model:
  name: hello_world
  framework: tensorflow
  inputs: input
  outputs: output

tuning:
  accuracy_criterion:
    relative: 0.01
  exit_policy:
    timeout: 100
  random_seed: 100

Helloworld Examples

1. Built-in dataloader and metric example: see tf_example1 for more details.
2. TensorFlow checkpoint: see tf_example4 for more details.
3. Enable benchmark for performance and accuracy measurement: see tf_example5 for more details.
4. TensorFlow slim model: see tf_example3 for more details.