COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND (CRIBB)
| Date | December 3, 2021 |
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| Speaker | William Moses Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Topic | Enzyme: High-Performance, Cross-Language, and Parallel Automatic Differentiation |
| Abstract | Automatic differentiation (AD) is key to training
neural networks, Bayesian inference, and scientific
computing. Applying these techniques requires rewriting
code in a specific machine learning framework or manually
providing derivatives. This talk presents Enzyme, a
high-performance automatic differentiation compiler
plugin for the low-level virtual machine (LLVM) compiler
capable of synthesizing gradients of programs expressed
in the LLVM intermediate representation (IR). Enzyme
differentiates programs in any language whose compiler
targets LLVM, including C/C++, Fortran, Julia, Rust,
Swift, etc., thereby providing native AD capabilities in
these languages with state-of-the-art performance. Unlike
traditional tools, Enzyme performs AD on optimized IR. On
a combined machine-learning and scientific computing
benchmark suite, AD on optimized IR achieves a geometric
mean speedup of 4.5x over AD on IR before optimization.
This talk will also include work that makes Enzyme the first fully automatic reverse-mode AD tool to generate gradients of existing GPU kernels. This includes new GPU and AD-specific compiler optimizations, and an algorithm ensuring correctness of high-performance parallel gradient computations. We provide a detailed evaluation of five GPU-based HPC applications, executed on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs |
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We thank the generous support of MIT IS&T, CSAIL, and the Department of Mathematics for their support of this series.