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Luting Yang
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2020
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Running deep neural network (DNN) inference on mobile devices, i.e., mobile inference, has become a growing trend, making inference less dependent on network connections and keeping private data locally. The prior studies on optimizing DNNs for mobile inference typically focus on the metric of average inference latency, thus implicitly assuming that mobile inference exhibits little latency variability. In this note, we conduct a preliminary measurement study on the latency variability of DNNs for mobile inference. We show that the inference latency variability can become quite significant in the presence of CPU resource contention. More interestingly, unlike the common belief that the relative performance superiority of DNNs on one device can carry over to another device and/or another level of resource contention, we highlight that a DNN model with a better latency performance than another model can become outperformed by the other model when resource contention be more severe or running on another device. Thus, when optimizing DNN models for mobile inference, only measuring the average latency may not be adequate; instead, latency variability under various conditions should be accounted for, including but not limited to different devices and different levels of CPU resource contention considered in this note.
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