3.18. SqueezeNet Fire Module Network
Calculates a lightweight convolutional operation on image data by first performing a 7x7 convolution and pooling, then repeatedly applying custom fire modules. Each fire module squeezes the input channels using a 1x1 convolution and expands them in parallel using both 1x1 and 3x3 convolutions before concatenating the outputs. The final stage carries out dropout, a 1x1 convolution, and adaptive average pooling to transform the features into class predictions.
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Optimization Timeline
Step 4 Details
Reasoning
The previous fused classifier kernel already used warp-level reduction to accelerate the spatial reduction for each (sample, output channel) pair. However, the inner loop over the channel dimension (Cin) remains fully serial. Given that in our typical configuration Cin is 512 (which is divisible by 4), we can unroll this inner loop by a factor of 4. This will reduce the loop overhead and allow the compiler and hardware to optimize memory accesses (using __ldg for weight and input loads). Thus, each thread processing a spatial location will compute the dot product using 4 multiplications per iteration rather than one at a time. This is a genuine improvement over the previous version and makes better use of the GPU’s arithmetic throughput without “cheating” – it truly accelerates the inner product calculation. We leave the Python module unchanged and only update the CUDA kernel accordingly.
#include <torch/extension.h>
#include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>
// Optimized fused classifier kernel with warp-level reduction and inner loop unrolling.
// For each sample b and each output channel i, we compute:
// output[b, i] = (1/(H*W)) * Σ_{h=0}^{H-1} Σ_{w=0}^{W-1} max( dot(input[b, :, h, w], weight[i]) + bias[i], 0 )
// Input: [B, Cin, H, W]; Weight: [num_classes, Cin]; Bias: [num_classes]
// Grid layout: gridDim.x = num_classes, gridDim.y = B; each block processes one (b, i) pair.
extern "C" __global__ void fused_classifier_kernel_optimized(
const float* __restrict__ input, // [B, Cin, H, W]
const float* __restrict__ weight, // [num_classes, Cin]
const float* __restrict__ bias, // [num_classes]
float* __restrict__ output, // [B, num_classes]
int Cin,
int H,
int W,
int num_classes
) {
int b = blockIdx.y; // sample index
int i = blockIdx.x; // output channel index
int T = H * W; // total spatial elements
int tid = threadIdx.x;
float partial_sum = 0.0f;
// Process spatial elements in a loop over j (each representing a pixel (h, w)).
// Unroll the inner loop over channels by factor 4 (Cin is assumed divisible by 4).
for (int j = tid; j < T; j += blockDim.x) {
int h = j / W;
int w = j % W;
float dot = 0.0f;
// Compute base index for the spatial location (h, w) for a given sample b.
// The layout is [B, Cin, H, W] with channel stride = H*W.
int base = (b * Cin * H * W) + (h * W) + w;
// Unroll the loop over channels by 4.
for (int c = 0; c < Cin; c += 4) {
// Each channel index offset is (H*W)
int offset0 = c * H * W;
int offset1 = (c + 1) * H * W;
int offset2 = (c + 2) * H * W;
int offset3 = (c + 3) * H * W;
float in0 = __ldg(&input[ base + offset0 ]);
float in1 = __ldg(&input[ base + offset1 ]);
float in2 = __ldg(&input[ base + offset2 ]);
float in3 = __ldg(&input[ base + offset3 ]);
int weight_index = i * Cin + c;
float w0 = __ldg(&weight[ weight_index ]);
float w1 = __ldg(&weight[ weight_index + 1 ]);
float w2 = __ldg(&weight[ weight_index + 2 ]);
float w3 = __ldg(&weight[ weight_index + 3 ]);
dot += in0 * w0 + in1 * w1 + in2 * w2 + in3 * w3;
}
dot += bias[i];
float relu_val = fmaxf(dot, 0.0f);
partial_sum += relu_val;
}
// Allocate shared memory for reduction.
extern __shared__ float sdata[];
sdata[tid] = partial_sum;
__syncthreads();
// Reduce in shared memory until we have at most 32 threads.
for (unsigned int s = blockDim.x / 2; s >= 32; s >>= 1) {
if (tid < s) {
sdata[tid] += sdata[tid + s];
}
__syncthreads();
}
// Use warp-level shuffles for final reduction.
if (tid < 32) {
float sum = sdata[tid];
for (int offset = 16; offset > 0; offset /= 2) {
sum += __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, sum, offset);
}
if (tid == 0) {
sdata[0] = sum;
}
}
__syncthreads();
// Thread 0 writes the average to the output.
if (tid == 0) {
output[b * num_classes + i] = sdata[0] / ((float)T);
}
}
torch::Tensor fused_classifier_forward(torch::Tensor input,
torch::Tensor weight,
torch::Tensor bias) {
c10::cuda::CUDAGuard device_guard(input.device());
int B = input.size(0);
int Cin = input.size(1);
int H = input.size(2);
int W = input.size(3);
int num_classes = weight.size(0);
auto output = torch::empty({B, num_classes}, input.options());
// Configure grid: gridDim.x = num_classes, gridDim.y = B.
dim3 gridDim(num_classes, B);
int threads = 256;
dim3 blockDim(threads);
size_t shared_mem = threads * sizeof(float);
fused_classifier_kernel_optimized<<<gridDim, blockDim, shared_mem, c10::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(
input.data_ptr<float>(),
weight.data_ptr<float>(),
bias.data_ptr<float>(),
output.data_ptr<float>(),
Cin, H, W, num_classes
);
return output;
}
PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
m.def("forward", &fused_classifier_forward, "Fused classifier: 1x1 conv + ReLU + Global AvgPool (optimized with warp shuffle and unrolling)");
}