 Run MLperf v2.1 ResNet on Imagenette

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Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-29  +Created 1970-01-01

Let's run on this Imagenet10 subset called Imagenette.

First ensure that you get the dummy test data run working as per MLperf v2.1 ResNet.

Next, in the imagenette2 directory, first let's create a 224x224 scaled version of the inputs as required by the benchmark at mlcommons.org/en/inference-datacenter-21/:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
rm -rf val224x224
mkdir -p val224x224
for syndir in val/*: do
  syn="$(dirname $syndir)"
  for img in "$syndir"/*; do
    convert "$img" -resize 224x224 "val224x224/$syn/$(basename "$img")"
  done
done

and then let's create the val_map.txt file to match the format expected by MLPerf:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/aaronpolhamus/964a4411c0906315deb9f4a3723aac57/raw/aa66dd9dbf6b56649fa3fab83659b2acbf3cbfd1/map_clsloc.txt
i=0
rm -f val_map.txt
while IFS="" read -r p || [ -n "$p" ]; do
  synset="$(printf '%s\n' "$p" | cut -d ' ' -f1)"
  if [ -d "val224x224/$synset" ]; then
    for f in "val224x224/$synset/"*; do
      echo "$f $i" >> val_map.txt
    done
  fi
  i=$((i + 1))
done < <( sort map_clsloc.txt )

then back on the mlperf directory we download our model:

wget https://zenodo.org/record/4735647/files/resnet50_v1.onnx

and finally run!

DATA_DIR=/mnt/sda3/data/imagenet/imagenette2 time ./run_local.sh onnxruntime resnet50 cpu --accuracy

which gives on P51:

TestScenario.SingleStream qps=164.06, mean=0.0267, time=23.924, acc=87.134%, queries=3925, tiles=50.0:0.0264,80.0:0.0275,90.0:0.0287,95.0:0.0306,99.0:0.0401,99.9:0.0464

where qps presumably means "querries per second". And the time results:

446.78user 33.97system 2:47.51elapsed 286%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 964728maxresident)k

The time=23.924 is much smaller than the time executable because of some lengthy pre-loading (TODO not sure what that means) that gets done every time:

INFO:imagenet:loaded 3925 images, cache=0, took=52.6sec
INFO:main:starting TestScenario.SingleStream

Let's try on the GPU now:

DATA_DIR=/mnt/sda3/data/imagenet/imagenette2 time ./run_local.sh onnxruntime resnet50 gpu --accuracy

which gives:

TestScenario.SingleStream qps=130.91, mean=0.0287, time=29.983, acc=90.395%, queries=3925, tiles=50.0:0.0265,80.0:0.0285,90.0:0.0405,95.0:0.0425,99.0:0.0490,99.9:0.0512
455.00user 4.96system 1:59.43elapsed 385%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 975080maxresident)k

TODO lower qps on GPU!

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