Benchmark BERT performance with TVM

The script compares BERT performance between TVM and mxnet-mkl on c5.9x and a1.4x instances. AutoTVM logs are tuned on c5.9x and a1.4x for sequence length 128, 256, 384.

Prerequisite

Install the python packages.

pip install --upgrade mxnet-mkl>=1.5.0b20190630
pip install gluonnlp

Compile the tvm from https://github.com/icemelon9/tvm/tree/bert-static.

Instruction

Export the BERT model, run

./export_model.sh seq_length

Run benchmark

python benchmark.py --task [task] --seq_length [seq_length] [--arm]