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authorStella Laurenzo <stellaraccident@gmail.com>Mon May 03 13:44:52 2021 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>Mon May 03 13:44:52 2021 -0700
tree4ab7e356ded3041856385b551b4299a7437ea2ea
parentc95d706bb9f4ac40ffb3094a32d966c96e795cb9 [diff]
Re-implements IREE function dispatch in python on top of the native ABI. (#5698)

* The code is much more straight-line, directly using low level VM facilities instead of indirecting through custom C++ structures. The dispatch itself is in Python but could be hoisted to C++ if it ever became a performance bottleneck (given the type manipulation and switchiness, may not be much faster).
* No tests yet and can only be triggered with modules compiled with as-yet-uncommitted flags and patches. Need to resolve the chicken-and-egg to take it further.
* Once complete, we can fully delete SIP, function_abi.[h|cc], host_type.[h|cc], and old code in system_api.py.
* Provides the bones to fix #5359 correctly (partially fixed now, will be fully fixed once the type converters are fully in place).
* Verified with manually compiled static workloads without nesting.
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  3. build_tools/
  4. colab/
  5. docs/
  6. experimental/
  7. integrations/
  8. iree/
  9. scripts/
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  22. CONTRIBUTING.md
  23. LICENSE
  24. README.md
  25. SUBMODULE_VERSIONS.txt
  26. WORKSPACE
README.md

IREE: Intermediate Representation Execution Environment

IREE (Intermediate Representation Execution Environment, pronounced as “eerie”) is an MLIR-based end-to-end compiler that lowers ML models to a unified IR optimized for real-time mobile/edge inference against heterogeneous hardware accelerators. IREE also provides flexible deployment solutions for the compiled ML models.

Project Status

IREE is still in its early phase. We have settled down on the overarching infrastructure and are actively improving various software components as well as project logistics. It is still quite far from ready for everyday use and is made available without any support at the moment. With that said, we welcome any kind of feedback on any communication channels!

Communication Channels

Related Project Channels

  • MLIR topic within LLVM Discourse: IREE is enabled by and heavily relies on MLIR. IREE sometimes is referred to in certain MLIR discussions. Useful if you are also interested in MLIR evolution.

Getting Started

Quick Start using Python

Python packages are published on the releases page. See the colab/ directory for examples.

Building from Source

IREE can be built from source using both Bazel and CMake on Windows and Linux. We also have experimental macOS support.

Please see the Getting Started pages on IREE's documentation hub to configure, compile, and run IREE in your favorite development environment!

Documentation and Talks

IREE hosts all its documentation and project status dashboards on GitHub Pages. We are still building up the website; please feel free to create issues for the documentation you'd like to see!

We also have some public talks that explain IREE's concepts and architecture:

  • 2020-08-20: IREE CodeGen: MLIR Open Design Meeting Presentation (recording and slides)
  • 2020-03-18: Interactive HAL IR Walkthrough (Ben Vanik and core team) (recording)
  • 2020-01-31: End-to-end MLIR Workflow in IREE: MLIR Open Design Meeting Presentation (recording and slides)

Architecture and Goals

IREE adopts a holistic approach towards ML model compilation: the IR produced contains both the scheduling logic, required to communicate data dependencies to low-level parallel pipelined hardware/API like Vulkan, and the execution logic, encoding dense computation on the hardware in the form of hardware/API-specific binaries like SPIR-V.

The architecture of IREE is best illustrated by the following picture:

IREE Architecture

Being compilation-based means IREE does not have a traditional runtime that dispatches “ops” to their fat kernel implementations. What IREE provides is a toolbox for different deployment scenarios. It scales from running generated code on a particular API (such as emitting C code calling external DSP kernels), to a HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) that allows the same generated code to target multiple APIs (like Vulkan and Direct3D 12), to a full VM allowing runtime model loading for flexible deployment options and heterogeneous execution.

IREE aims to

  • Support advanced models on mobile/edge devices. Dynamic shapes, dynamic flow control, dynamic multi-model dispatch, streaming models, tree-based search algorithms, and other are all good examples of exciting ML evolution. We are trying to build IREE from the ground-up to enable these models and run them efficiently on modern hardware, especially on mobile/edge devices.
  • Demonstrate MLIR‘s ability to develop non-traditional ML compiler backends and runtimes. MLIR enables IREE’s holistic approach of focusing on the math being performed and how that math is scheduled rather than graphs of “ops”.
  • Embrace standard-based ML via Vulkan. The graphics world is shifting towards favoring modern explicit APIs for performance and predictability and Vulkan is emerging as the “compatibility” layer. We would love to allow hardware vendors to be able to make ML efficient on their hardware without the need for bespoke runtimes and special access. We also would love to let developers and users utilize all the hardware available on as many platforms as possible.

Roadmap and Milestones

IREE is in the early stages of development and not yet ready for broad adoption. Check out the long-term design roadmap to get a sense of where we're headed.

We plan on a quarterly basis using OKRs. Review our latest objectives to get a sense of what we're up to in the near term.

We use GitHub Projects to track progress on IREE components and specific efforts. We use GitHub Milestones to track the work associated with plans for each quarter.

Build Status

CI SystemBuild SystemPlatformArchitectureComponentStatus
KokoroBazelLinuxx86Corekokoro_status_bazel_linux_x86_core
KokoroCMake & BazelLinuxx86-swiftshaderIntegrationskokoro_status_cmake-bazel_linux_x86-swiftshader_integrations
KokoroCMake & BazelLinuxx86-turingIntegrationskokoro_status_cmake-bazel_linux_x86-turing_integrations
KokoroCMakeLinuxx86-swiftshaderCore + Bindingskokoro_status_cmake_linux_x86-swiftshader
KokoroCMakeLinuxx86-turingCore + Bindingskokoro_status_cmake_linux_x86-turing
KokoroCMakeAndroidarm64-v8aRuntime (build only)kokoro_status_cmake_android_arm64-v8a
BuildKiteCMakeAndroidarm64-v8aRuntimebuildkite-status-cmake-android-arm

License

IREE is licensed under the terms of the Apache license. See LICENSE for more information.