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Superneurons: dynamic GPU memory management for training deep neural networks

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Wang, Linnan, Ye, Jinmian, Zhao, Yiyang, Wu, Wei, Li, Ang, Song, Shuaiwen Leon, Xu, Zenglin, Kraska, Tim·2018·Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

Abstract

Going deeper and wider in neural architectures improves their accuracy, while the limited GPU DRAM places an undesired restriction on the network design domain. Deep Learning (DL) practitioners either need to change to less desired network architectures, or nontrivially dissect a network across multiGPUs. These distract DL practitioners from concentrating on their original machine learning tasks. We present SuperNeurons: a dynamic GPU memory scheduling runtime to enable the network training far beyond the GPU DRAM capacity. SuperNeurons features 3 memory optimizations, Liveness Analysis, Unified Tensor Pool, and Cost-Aware Recomputation; together they effectively reduce the network-wide peak memory usage down to the maximal memory usage among layers. We also address the performance issues in these memory-saving techniques. Given the limited GPU DRAM, SuperNeurons not only provisions the necessary memory for the training, but also dynamically allocates the memory for convolution workspaces to achieve the high performance. Evaluations against Caffe, Torch, MXNet and TensorFlow have demonstrated that SuperNeurons trains at least 3.2432 deeper network than current ones with the leading performance. Particularly, SuperNeurons can train ResNet2500 that has 104 basic network layers on a 12GB K40c.

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Authors
Wang, L., Ye, J., Zhao, Y., Wu, W., Li, A., Song, S. L., Xu, Z., & Kraska, T.
Affiliations
  • Brown University (US)
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
Publisher
ACM
Published
2018-02-10
Pages
41-53
OpenAlex
W4301361180
Cited by
175
References
28
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.26
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • VMware
  • Mellanox
  • Oracle
  • Natural Science Foundation of China (61572111)
  • Google
  • DARPA (16-43-D3M-FP-040)
  • Central Universities of China (ZYGX2016Z003)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Hardware and Architecture › Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Keywords
GPU memory management, deep neural network training, memory optimization, liveness analysis, dynamic memory allocation, multi-GPU training

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