KellenSunderland commented on a change in pull request #13697: [MKLDNN] Enable 
signed int8 support for convolution.
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13697#discussion_r244628057
 
 

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 File path: example/quantization/imagenet_gen_qsym_mkldnn.py
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 @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ def save_params(fname, arg_params, aux_params, 
logger=None):
                              ' thresholds. This mode is expected to produce 
the best inference accuracy of all three'
                              ' kinds of quantized models if the calibration 
dataset is representative enough of the'
                              ' inference dataset.')
-    parser.add_argument('--quantized-dtype', type=str, default='uint8',
-                        choices=['int8', 'uint8'],
+    parser.add_argument('--quantized-dtype', type=str, default='auto',
 
 Review comment:
   So reading a bit more about this from 
https://intel.github.io/mkl-dnn/ex_int8_simplenet.html 
   
   ```C++
   auto user_src_memory = memory({ { { conv_src_tz }, memory::data_type::f32, 
memory::format::nchw }, cpu_engine }, user_src.data());
   auto conv_src_md = memory::desc( { conv_src_tz }, memory::data_type::u8, 
memory::format::any);
   auto conv_desc = convolution_forward::desc(prop_kind::forward,
           convolution_direct, conv_src_md, conv_weights_md, conv_bias_md,
           conv_dst_md, conv_strides, conv_padding, conv_padding,
           padding_kind::zero);
   auto conv_prim_desc = convolution_forward::primitive_desc(conv_desc, 
conv_attr, cpu_engine);
   auto conv_src_memory = memory(conv_prim_desc.src_primitive_desc());
   auto src_reorder_pd = 
reorder::primitive_desc(user_src_memory.get_primitive_desc(), 
conv_src_memory.get_primitive_desc(), src_attr);
   ```
   
   am I understanding correctly that we can convert from an fp32 input (with 
negative values) to uint8 via a reorder primitive.  Do we do this for the first 
negative input into subgraphs handled by mkldnn?

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