Deploying Machine Learning Models to Ahead-of-Time Runtime on Edge Using MicroTVM

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Abstract

In the past few years, more and more AI applications have been applied to edge devices. However, models trained by data scientists with machine learning frameworks, such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, can not be seamlessly executed on edge. In this paper, we develop an end-to-end code generator parsing a pre-trained model to C source libraries for the backend using MicroTVM, a machine learning compiler framework extension addressing inference on bare metal devices. An analysis shows that specific compute-intensive operators can be easily offloaded to the dedicated accelerator with a Universal Modular Accelerator (UMA) interface, while others are processed in the CPU cores. By using the automatically generated ahead-of-time C runtime, we conduct a hand gesture recognition experiment on an ARM Cortex M4F core.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Compilers, Deployment, and Tooling for Edge AI, CODAI 2023
Pages37 - 40
Number of pages4
ISBN (electronic)9798400703379
Publication statusPublished - 21 Sept 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-6286-5064/work/166324418
Scopus 85196382990

Keywords

Keywords

  • BYOC, MicroTVM, TVM, UMA, model deployment