Correction, I wanted to say: 1.5 is 33% faster than 1.4.1 when using hybridize without static_alloc and static_shape.
We are claiming that static_alloc should improve speed and in this case it makes it worse. Is that a blocker for the release? Pedro. On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:36 AM Pedro Larroy <[email protected]> wrote: > > A bit more background into this: > > While tuning a model using LSTM and convolutions we find that using > hybridize with static_alloc and static_shape is 15% slower in the > latest revision vs in version 1.4.1 in which using hybridize with > static_alloc and static_shape is 10% faster than without. > > Overwall we are still 33% faster when comparing master to 1.5. > > Let me know if you think this is a release blocker or not. > > Pedro. > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:51 PM Pedro Larroy > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > -1 > > > > We found a performance regression vs 1.4 related to CachedOp which > > affects Hybrid forward, which we are looking into. > > > > Pedro. > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 4:33 PM Lin Yuan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > -1 (Tentatively until resolved) > > > > > > I tried to build MXNet 1.5.0 from source and pip install horovod but got > > > the following error: > > > > > > Reproduce: > > > 1) cp make/config.mk . > > > 2) turn on USE_CUDA, USE_CUDNN, USE_NCCL > > > 3) make -j > > > > > > MXNet can build successfully. > > > > > > 4) pip install horovod > > > > > > > > > /home/ubuntu/src/incubator-mxnet/python/mxnet/../../include/mkldnn/mkldnn.h:55:28: > > > fatal error: mkldnn_version.h: No such file or directory > > > compilation terminated. > > > INFO: Unable to build MXNet plugin, will skip it. > > > > > > I did not change any setting of MKLDNN in my config.mk. I am building on > > > DLAMI base 18.0 which is Ubuntu 16.04 and CUDA 10.0 > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Lin > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 5:39 PM shiwen hu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > Lai Wei <[email protected]> 于2019年6月9日周日 上午4:12写道： > > > > > > > > > Dear MXNet community, > > > > > > > > > > This is the 3-day vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version > > > > 1.5.0. > > > > > Voting on dev@ will start June 8, 23:59:59(PST) and close on June 11, > > > > > 23:59:59. > > > > > > > > > > 1) Link to release notes: > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.5.0+Release+Notes > > > > > > > > > > 2) Link to release candidate: > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.5.0.rc0 > > > > > > > > > > 3) Link to source and signatures on apache dist server: > > > > > > > > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.5.0.rc0/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly: > > > > > +1 = approve > > > > > +0 = no opinion > > > > > -1 = disapprove (provide reason) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards > > > > > > > > > > Lai > > > > > > > > >
