TVM: End-to-End Optimization Stack for Deep Learning

Scalable frameworks, such as TensorFlow, MXNet, Caffe, and PyTorch drive the current popularity and utility of deep learning. However, these frameworks are optimized for a narrow range of server-class GPUs and deploying workloads to other platforms such as mobile phones, embedded devices, and specialized accelerators (e.g., FPGAs, ASICs) requires laborious manual effort. We propose TVM, an end-to-end optimization stack that exposes graph-level and operator-level optimizations to provide performance portability to deep learning workloads across diverse hardware back-ends. We discuss the optimization challenges specific to deep learning that TVM solves: high-level operator fusion, low-level memory reuse across threads, mapping to arbitrary hardware primitives, and memory latency hiding. Experimental results demonstrate that TVM delivers performance across hardware back-ends that are competitive with state-of-the-art libraries for low-power CPU and server-class GPUs. We also demonstrate TVM's ability to target new hardware accelerator back-ends by targeting an FPGA-based generic deep learning accelerator. The compiler infrastructure is open sourced.