mlcommons.org/en/ Their homepage is not amazingly organized, but it does the job.
Benchmark focused on deep learning. It has two parts:Furthermore, a specific network model is specified for each benchmark in the closed category: so it goes beyond just specifying the dataset.
Results can be seen e.g. at:
Those URLs broke as of 2025 of course, now you have to click on their Tableau down to the 2.1 round and there's no fixed URL for it:
And there are also separate repositories for each:
Instructions at:
Ubuntu 22.10 setup with tiny dummy manually generated ImageNet and run on ONNX:
sudo apt install pybind11-dev
git clone https://github.com/mlcommons/inference
cd inference
git checkout v2.1
virtualenv -p python3 .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
pip install numpy==1.24.2 pycocotools==2.0.6 onnxruntime==1.14.1 opencv-python==4.7.0.72 torch==1.13.1
cd loadgen
CFLAGS="-std=c++14" python setup.py develop
cd -
cd vision/classification_and_detection
python setup.py develop
wget -q https://zenodo.org/record/3157894/files/mobilenet_v1_1.0_224.onnx
export MODEL_DIR="$(pwd)"
export EXTRA_OPS='--time 10 --max-latency 0.2'
tools/make_fake_imagenet.sh
DATA_DIR="$(pwd)/fake_imagenet" ./run_local.sh onnxruntime mobilenet cpu --accuracyLast line of output on P51, which appears to contain the benchmark resultswhere presumably
TestScenario.SingleStream qps=58.85, mean=0.0138, time=0.136, acc=62.500%, queries=8, tiles=50.0:0.0129,80.0:0.0137,90.0:0.0155,95.0:0.0171,99.0:0.0184,99.9:0.0187qps means queries per second, and is the main results we are interested in, the more the better.Running:produces a tiny ImageNet subset with 8 images under
tools/make_fake_imagenet.shfake_imagenet/.fake_imagenet/val_map.txt contains:val/800px-Porsche_991_silver_IAA.jpg 817
val/512px-Cacatua_moluccensis_-Cincinnati_Zoo-8a.jpg 89
val/800px-Sardinian_Warbler.jpg 13
val/800px-7weeks_old.JPG 207
val/800px-20180630_Tesla_Model_S_70D_2015_midnight_blue_left_front.jpg 817
val/800px-Welsh_Springer_Spaniel.jpg 156
val/800px-Jammlich_crop.jpg 233
val/782px-Pumiforme.JPG 285TODO prepare and test on the actual ImageNet validation set, README says:
Prepare the imagenet dataset to come.
Since that one is undocumented, let's try the COCO dataset instead, which uses COCO 2017 and is also a bit smaller. Note that his is not part of MLperf anymore since v2.1, only ImageNet and open images are used. But still:
wget https://zenodo.org/record/4735652/files/ssd_mobilenet_v1_coco_2018_01_28.onnx
DATA_DIR_BASE=/mnt/data/coco
export DATA_DIR="${DATADIR_BASE}/val2017-300"
mkdir -p "$DATA_DIR_BASE"
cd "$DATA_DIR_BASE"
wget http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/val2017.zip
wget http://images.cocodataset.org/annotations/annotations_trainval2017.zip
unzip val2017.zip
unzip annotations_trainval2017.zip
mv annotations val2017
cd -
cd "$(git-toplevel)"
python tools/upscale_coco/upscale_coco.py --inputs "$DATA_DIR_BASE" --outputs "$DATA_DIR" --size 300 300 --format png
cd -Now:fails immediately with:The more plausible looking:first takes a while to preprocess something most likely, which it does only one, and then fails:
./run_local.sh onnxruntime mobilenet cpu --accuracyNo such file or directory: '/path/to/coco/val2017-300/val_map.txt./run_local.sh onnxruntime mobilenet cpu --accuracy --dataset coco-300Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ciro/git/inference/vision/classification_and_detection/python/main.py", line 596, in <module>
main()
File "/home/ciro/git/inference/vision/classification_and_detection/python/main.py", line 468, in main
ds = wanted_dataset(data_path=args.dataset_path,
File "/home/ciro/git/inference/vision/classification_and_detection/python/coco.py", line 115, in __init__
self.label_list = np.array(self.label_list)
ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence. The requested array has an inhomogeneous shape after 2 dimensions. The detected shape was (5000, 2) + inhomogeneous part.TODO!
The most important thing this project provides appears to be the
.onnx file format, which represents ANN models, pre-trained or not.Deep learning frameworks can then output such
.onnx files for interchangeability and serialization.Some examples:
- activatedgeek/LeNet-5 produces a trained
.onnxfrom PyTorch - MLperf v2.1 ResNet can use
.onnxas a pre-trained model
Matrix multiplication example.
Fundamental since deep learning is mostly matrix multiplication.
Contains several computer vision models, e.g. ResNet, all of them including pre-trained versions on some dataset, which is quite sweet.
Documentation: pytorch.org/vision/stable/index.html
Version of TensorFlow with a Cirq backend that can run in either quantum computers or classical computer simulations, with the goal of potentially speeding up deep learning applications on a quantum computer some day.
OK, now we're talking, two liner and you get a window showing bounding box object detection from your webcam feed!The accuracy is crap for anything but people. But still. Well done. Tested on Ubuntu 22.10, P51.
python -m pip install -U yolov5==7.0.9
yolov5 detect --source 0
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