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Speed mode is much slower than memory mode #55

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jasperzhong opened this issue Mar 9, 2021 · 0 comments

jasperzhong commented Mar 9, 2021

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benchmark: BERT Base
one 32GB V100 GPU
Tensorflow 1.15
CUDA 10.0, cuDNN 7.6.5

The measured time is the average of 10 iterations.

method	iteration time (ms)	memory (GB)
w/o optimization	557.11	16.42
recomputation (speed mode)	1457.91	13.32
recomputation (memory mode)	704.9	7.43

code comes from google-research/bert, with a small modification to adopt gradient checkpointing.

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