drivanov opened a new pull request #16218: Improving performance of argmax 
operator
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/16218
 
 
   ## Description ##
   In average, this implementation of `argmax` operator runs 4.2x faster on CPU 
and 7.8x faster on GPU, than the previous one.
   
   ## Checklist ##
   ### Essentials ###
   - [x] Changes are complete (i.e. I finished coding on this PR)
   - [x] All changes have test coverage:
   - Unit tests are added for small changes to verify correctness (e.g. adding 
a new operator)
   - Nightly tests are added for complicated/long-running ones (e.g. changing 
distributed kvstore)
   - [x ] Code is well-documented: 
   - [x] To the my best knowledge, examples are either not affected by this 
change, or have been fixed to be compatible with this change
   
   ### Changes ###
   - [x] Two new kernels are implemented. 
   
   ## Comments ##
   - The performance of new argmax was tested on 69 different pairs `(shape, 
axis)` of 2- and 3-dimensional shapes. Following table contains some 
performance results for run time improvement:
   ```
                   CPU:       GPU:        
   Average:       4.163x     7.753x
   Maximal:      15.287x   100.157x 
   ```
   Significant improvement achieved mostly by using multiple threads working on 
the same vector.

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