TY - GEN
T1 - Micro Darknet for Inference
T2 - 16th International System-on-Chip Design Conference, ISOCC 2019
AU - Ji, Min Zhi
AU - Tseng, Wei Chung
AU - Wu, Ting Jia
AU - Lin, Bo Rong
AU - Chen, Chung Ho
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - For neural network (NN) models applying to low-end edge devices, the memory management is a very important issue because of the limitation of hardware resources. However, current NN frameworks typically allocate a huge memory space for NN models in the initial stage. To reduce memory requirements, we propose a lite NN inference-only framework, MDFI (Micro Darknet for Inference) based on Darknet. We optimize the MDFI C code by a layer-wise memory management and layer-dependency resolving mechanism. According to the experimental results, the average memory consumption of MDFI has 76% reduction compared to Darknet, and the average execution time of MDFI has 8% reduction also.
AB - For neural network (NN) models applying to low-end edge devices, the memory management is a very important issue because of the limitation of hardware resources. However, current NN frameworks typically allocate a huge memory space for NN models in the initial stage. To reduce memory requirements, we propose a lite NN inference-only framework, MDFI (Micro Darknet for Inference) based on Darknet. We optimize the MDFI C code by a layer-wise memory management and layer-dependency resolving mechanism. According to the experimental results, the average memory consumption of MDFI has 76% reduction compared to Darknet, and the average execution time of MDFI has 8% reduction also.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISOCC47750.2019.9027644
DO - 10.1109/ISOCC47750.2019.9027644
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85082995802
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2019
SP - 69
EP - 70
BT - Proceedings - 2019 International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 6 October 2019 through 9 October 2019
ER -