DeepDSL: A Compilation-based Domain-Specific Language for Deep LearningDownload PDF

Published: 21 Jul 2022, Last Modified: 22 Oct 2023ICLR 2017 PosterReaders: Everyone
Abstract: In recent years, Deep Learning (DL) has found great success in domains such as multimedia understanding. However, the complex nature of multimedia data makes it difficult to develop DL-based software. The state-of-the-art tools, such as Caffe, TensorFlow, Torch7, and CNTK, while are successful in their applicable domains, are programming libraries with fixed user interface, internal representation, and execution environment. This makes it difficult to implement portable and customized DL applications. In this paper, we present DeepDSL, a domain specific language (DSL) embedded in Scala, that compiles deep networks written in DeepDSL to Java source code. Deep DSL provides (1) intuitive constructs to support compact encoding of deep networks; (2) symbolic gradient derivation of the networks; (3) static analysis for memory consumption and error detection; and (4) DSL-level optimization to improve memory and runtime efficiency. DeepDSL programs are compiled into compact, efficient, customizable, and portable Java source code, which operates the CUDA and CUDNN interfaces running on NVIDIA GPU via a Java Native Interface (JNI) library. We evaluated DeepDSL with a number of popular DL networks. Our experiments show that the compiled programs have very competitive runtime performance and memory efficiency compared to the existing libraries.
TL;DR: DeepDSL(a DSL embedded in Scala) that compiles deep learning networks written in DeepDSL to Java source code, which runs on any GPU equipped machines with competitive efficiency as existing state-of-the-art tools (e.g. Caffe and Tensorflow)
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Keywords: Deep learning, Applications, Optimization
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