PhilippvK opened a new pull request, #12525:
URL: https://github.com/apache/tvm/pull/12525
This adds a `--tasks` flag to the `tvmc tune` command to filter the lists of
tasks to be tuned. See examples below.
## Motivation
- As auto-tuning can be quite time consuming, it is often desirable to cut
down the number of tuned tasks in a session.
- If the tuning session was canceled halfway through, it would be a bad idea
to start from scratch. Instead continue with the last untuned task
- Some tasks have more impact on the model performance than others, thus we
should be able to train some tasks longer than others
## Examples
1. Use `--task list` to show which tasks are available for tuning
```
$ tvmc tune toycar.tflite -o out.txt --task list
Available Tasks for tuning:
0. Task(func_name=dense_nopack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 640), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (128, 640), 'int...
1. Task(func_name=dense_pack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 640), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (128, 640), 'int16...
2. Task(func_name=dense_nopack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 128), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (128, 128), 'int...
3. Task(func_name=dense_pack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 128), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (128, 128), 'int16...
4. Task(func_name=dense_nopack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 128), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (8, 128), 'int16...
5. Task(func_name=dense_pack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 128), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (8, 128), 'int16')...
6. Task(func_name=dense_nopack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 8), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (128, 8), 'int16')...
7. Task(func_name=dense_pack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 8), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (128, 8), 'int16'), ...
8. Task(func_name=dense_nopack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 128), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (640, 128), 'int...
9. Task(func_name=dense_pack.x86, args=(('TENSOR', (1, 128), 'int16'),
('TENSOR', (640, 128), 'int16...
```
2. Filter the list of tasks to be tuned:
```
# Only tune a single task (index 5)
tvmc tune toycar.tflite -o out.txt --tasks 5
# Tunes tasks starting with index 6
tvmc tune toycar.tflite -o out.txt --tasks "6-"
# Tune tasks 1,4,5,6,8,9
tvmc tune toycar.tflite -o out.txt --tasks "1,4-6,8-"
```
## Tests
I added a basic unit test for the `filter_tasks` utility in
`tests/python/driver/tvmc/test_autotuner.py`.
## Open Questions
- While the (truncated) string representations of AutoTVM tasks are quite
helpful to pick the correct tasks, using AutoScheduler the tasks can not really
be distinguished from each other (only by index). Is there a way to get similar
information from AutoScheduler tasks?
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