Consolidation in Benchmarking, Optimization, and Ecosystem Collaboration for AI ASICs

Explore the challenges and solutions in adopting AI ASICs through this 21-minute conference talk by Minghui Yu from ByteDance. Gain insights into ByteMLPerf, a tool developed to streamline ASIC evaluation from a production perspective. Learn how this innovative approach addresses issues such as cross-team communication, model selection, and performance expectations. Discover how ByteMLPerf enhances ease of use, versatility, and reproducibility in both software and hardware aspects. Understand the tool's comprehensive metrics for real-world evaluation and its compilation backend that maximizes model performance on ASICs. Delve into the growing popularity of ASICs in AI acceleration and the strategies to overcome adoption hurdles in IT companies.