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The ML Inference Advisor (MLIA) is used to help AI developers design and optimize neural network models for efficient inference on Arm® targets (see supported targets) by enabling performance analysis and providing actionable advice early in the model development cycle. The final advice can cover supported operators, performance analysis and suggestions for model optimization (e.g. pruning, clustering, etc.).
This product conforms to Arm's inclusive language policy and, to the best of our knowledge, does not contain any non-inclusive language.
If you find something that concerns you, email terms@arm.com.
Release notes can be found in MLIA releases.
In case you need support or want to report an issue, give us feedback or simply ask a question about MLIA, please send an email to mlia@arm.com.
Alternatively, use the AI and ML forum to get support by marking your post with the MLIA tag.
Information on reporting security issues can be found in Reporting vulnerabilities.
ML Inference Advisor is licensed under Apache License 2.0.
It is recommended to use a virtual environment for MLIA installation, and a typical setup for MLIA requires:
MLIA can be installed with pip
using the following command:
pip install mlia
It is highly recommended to create a new virtual environment to install MLIA.
After the installation, you can check that MLIA is installed correctly by opening your terminal, activating the virtual environment and typing the following command that should print the help text:
mlia --help
The ML Inference Advisor works with sub-commands, i.e. in general a MLIA command would look like this:
mlia [sub-command] [arguments]
Where the following sub-commands are available:
Detailed help about the different sub-commands can be shown like this:
mlia [sub-command] --help
The following sections go into further detail regarding the usage of MLIA.
This section gives an overview of the available sub-commands for MLIA.
Lists the model's operators with information about their compatibility with the specified target.
Examples:
# List operator compatibility with Ethos-U55 with 256 MAC mlia operators --target-profile ethos-u55-256 ~/models/mobilenet_v1_1.0_224_quant.tflite # List operator compatibility with Cortex-A mlia ops --target-profile cortex-a ~/models/mobilenet_v1_1.0_224_quant.tflite # Get help and further information mlia ops --help
Estimate the model's performance on the specified target and print out statistics.
Examples:
# Use default parameters mlia performance ~/models/mobilenet_v1_1.0_224_quant.tflite # Explicitly specify the target profile and backend(s) to use with --evaluate-on mlia perf ~/models/ds_cnn_large_fully_quantized_int8.tflite \ --evaluate-on "Vela" "Corstone-310" \ --target-profile ethos-u65-512 # Get help and further information mlia perf --help
This sub-command applies optimizations to a Keras model (.h5 or SavedModel) and shows the performance improvements compared to the original unoptimized model.
There are currently two optimization techniques available to apply:
More information about these techniques can be found online in the TensorFlow documentation, e.g. in the TensorFlow model optimization guides.
Note: A Keras model (.h5 or SavedModel) is required as input to perform the optimizations. Models in the TensorFlow Lite format are not supported.
Examples:
# Custom optimization parameters: pruning=0.6, clustering=16 mlia optimization \ --optimization-type pruning,clustering \ --optimization-target 0.6,16 \ ~/models/ds_cnn_l.h5 # Get help and further information mlia opt --help
Combine sub-commands described above to generate a full report of the input model with all information available for the specified target. E.g. for Ethos-U this combines sub-commands operators and optimization. Therefore most command line arguments are shared with other sub-commands.
Examples:
# Create full report and save it as JSON file mlia all_tests --output ./report.json ~/models/ds_cnn_l.h5 # Get help and further information mlia all --help
Most sub-commands accept the name of a target profile as input parameter. The profiles currently available are described in the following sections.
The support of the above sub-commands for different targets is provided via backends that need to be installed separately, see Backend installation section.
There are a number of predefined profiles for Ethos-U with the following attributes:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Profile name | MAC | System config | Memory mode | +===================================================================== | ethos-u55-256 | 256 | Ethos_U55_High_End_Embedded | Shared_Sram | +--------------------------------------------------------------------- | ethos-u55-128 | 128 | Ethos_U55_High_End_Embedded | Shared_Sram | +--------------------------------------------------------------------- | ethos-u65-512 | 512 | Ethos_U65_High_End | Dedicated_Sram | +--------------------------------------------------------------------- | ethos-u65-256 | 256 | Ethos_U65_High_End | Dedicated_Sram | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Example:
mlia perf --target-profile ethos-u65-512 ~/model.tflite
Ethos-U is supported by these backends:
The profile cortex-a can be used to get the information about supported operators for Cortex-A CPUs when using the Arm NN TensorFlow Lite delegate. Please, find more details in the section for the corresponding backend.
The target profile tosa can be used for TOSA compatibility checks of your model. It requires the TOSA Checker backend.
For more information, see TOSA Checker's:
The ML Inference Advisor is designed to use backends to provide different metrics for different target hardware. Some backends come pre-installed with MLIA, but others can be added and managed using the command mlia-backend
, that provides the following functionality:
Examples:
# List backends installed and available for installation mlia-backend list # Install Corstone-300 backend for Ethos-U mlia-backend install Corstone-300 --path ~/FVP_Corstone_SSE-300/ # Uninstall the Corstone-300 backend mlia-backend uninstall Corstone-300 # Get help and further information mlia-backend --help
Note: Some, but not all, backends can be automatically downloaded, if no path is provided.
This section lists available backends. As not all backends work on any platform the following table shows some compatibility information:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Backend | Linux | Windows | Python | +============================================================================= | Arm NN | | | | | TensorFlow | x86_64 | Windows 10 | Python>=3.8 | | Lite delegate | | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Corstone-300 | x86_64 | Not compatible | Python>=3.8 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Corstone-310 | x86_64 | Not compatible | Python>=3.8 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | TOSA checker | x86_64 (manylinux2014) | Not compatible | 3.7<=Python<=3.9 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Vela | x86_64 | Windows 10 | Python~=3.7 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
This backend provides general information about the compatibility of operators with the Arm NN TensorFlow Lite delegate for Cortex-A. It comes pre-installed with MLIA.
For more information see:
Corstone-300 is a backend that provides performance metrics for systems based on Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U. It is only available on the Linux platform.
Examples:
# Download and install Corstone-300 automatically mlia-backend install Corstone-300 # Point to a local version of Corstone-300 installed using its installation script mlia-backend install Corstone-300 --path YOUR_LOCAL_PATH_TO_CORSTONE_300
For further information about Corstone-300 please refer to: https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Corstone-300
Corstone-310 is a backend that provides performance metrics for systems based on Cortex-M85 and Ethos-U. It is available as Arm Virtual Hardware (AVH) only, i.e. it can not be downloaded automatically.
The TOSA Checker backend provides operator compatibility checks against the TOSA specification.
Please, install it into the same environment as MLIA using this command:
mlia-backend install tosa-checker
Additional resources:
The Vela backend provides performance metrics for Ethos-U based systems. It comes pre-installed with MLIA.
Additional resources: