Hi folks,
I have finished the comparison. Here you can find graphs for ar-en and ru-en.
The ground-up rewrite of Moses is
about 2x–3x faster than Joshua.
http://imgur.com/a/FcIbW
One implication (untested) is that we are likely as fast as or faster than
Moses.
We could brainstorm things to do to close this gap. I'd be much happier with 2x
or even 1.5x than with 3x, and I bet we could narrow this down. But I'd like to
get the 6.1 release out of the way, first, so I'm pushing this off to next
month. Sound cool?
matt
> On Sep 19, 2016, at 6:26 AM, Matt Post <p...@cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> I can't believe I did this, but I mis-colored one of the hiero lines, and the
> Numbers legend doesn't show the line type. If you reload the dropbox file,
> it's fixed now. The difference is about 3x for both. Here's the table.
>
> Threads
> Joshua
> Moses2
> Joshua (hiero)
> Moses2 (hiero)
> Phrase rate
> Hiero rate
> 1
> 178
> 65
> 2116
> 1137
> 2.74
> 1.86
> 2
> 109
> 42
> 1014
> 389
> 2.60
> 2.61
> 4
> 78
> 29
> 596
> 213
> 2.69
> 2.80
> 6
> 72
> 25
> 473
> 154
> 2.88
> 3.07
>
> I'll put the models together and share them later today. This was on a 6-core
> machine and I agree it'd be nice to test with something much higher.
>
> matt
>
>
>> On Sep 19, 2016, at 5:33 AM, kellen sunderland <kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Do we just want to store these models somewhere temporarily? I've got a
>> OneDrive account and could share the models from there (as long as they're
>> below 500GBs or so).
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:32 AM, kellen sunderland
>> <kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com <mailto:kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Very nice results. I think getting to within 25% of a optimized c++ decoder
>> from a Java decoder is impressive. Great that Hieu has put in the work to
>> make moses2 so fast as well, that gives organizations two quite nice
>> decoding engines to choose from, both with reasonable performance.
>>
>> Matt: I had a question about the x axis here. Is that number of threads?
>> We should be scaling more or less linearly with the number of threads, is
>> that the case here? If you post the models somewhere I can also do a quick
>> benchmark on a machine with a few more cores.
>>
>> -Kellen
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Tommaso Teofili <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:tommaso.teof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Il giorno sab 17 set 2016 alle ore 15:23 Matt Post <p...@cs.jhu.edu
>> <mailto:p...@cs.jhu.edu>> ha
>> scritto:
>>
>>> I'll ask Hieu; I don't anticipate any problems. One potential problem is
>>> that that models occupy about 15--20 GB; do you think Jenkins would host
>>> this?
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure, can such models be downloaded and pruned at runtime, or do
>> they need to exist on the Jenkins machine ?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> (ru-en grammars still packing, results will probably not be in until much
>>> later today)
>>>
>>> matt
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sep 17, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Tommaso Teofili <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:tommaso.teof...@gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Matt,
>>>>
>>>> I think it'd be really valuable if we could be able to repeat the same
>>>> tests (given parallel corpus is available) in the future, any chance you
>>>> can share script / code to do that ? We may even consider adding a
>>> Jenkins
>>>> job dedicated to continuously monitor performances as we work on Joshua
>>>> master branch.
>>>>
>>>> WDYT?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway thanks for sharing the very interesting comparisons.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Tommaso
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno sab 17 set 2016 alle ore 12:29 Matt Post <p...@cs.jhu.edu
>>>> <mailto:p...@cs.jhu.edu>> ha
>>>> scritto:
>>>>
>>>>> Ugh, I think the mailing list deleted the attachment. Here is an attempt
>>>>> around our censors:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/80up63reu4q809y/ar-en-joshua-moses2.png?dl=0
>>>>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/80up63reu4q809y/ar-en-joshua-moses2.png?dl=0>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 17, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Matt Post <p...@cs.jhu.edu
>>>>>> <mailto:p...@cs.jhu.edu>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One thing we did this week at MT Marathon was a speed comparison of
>>>>> Joshua 6.1 (release candidate) with Moses2, which is a ground-up
>>> rewrite of
>>>>> Moses designed for speed (see the attached paper). Moses2 is 4–6x faster
>>>>> than Moses phrase-based, and 100x (!) faster than Moses hiero.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tested using two moderate-to-large sized datasets that Hieu Hoang
>>>>> (CC'd) provided me with: ar-en and ru-en. Timing results are from 10,000
>>>>> sentences in each corpus. The average ar-en sentence length is 7.5, and
>>> for
>>>>> ru-en is 28. I only ran one test for each language, so there could be
>>> some
>>>>> variance if I averaged, but I think the results look pretty consistent.
>>> The
>>>>> timing is end-to-end (including model load times, which Moses2 tends to
>>> be
>>>>> a bit faster at).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note also that Joshua does not have lexicalized distortion, while
>>> Moses2
>>>>> does. This means the BLEU scores are a bit lower for Joshua: 62.85
>>> versus
>>>>> 63.49. This shouldn't really affect runtime, however.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm working on the ru-en, but here are the ar-en results:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some conclusions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Hieu has done some bang-up work on the Moses2 rewrite! Joshua is in
>>>>> general about 3x slower than Moses2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - We don't have a Moses comparison, but extrapolating from Hieu's
>>> paper,
>>>>> it seems we might be as fast as or faster than Moses phrase-based
>>> decoding,
>>>>> and are a ton faster on Hiero. I'm going to send my models to Hieu so he
>>>>> can test on his machine, and then we'll have a better feel for this,
>>>>> including how it scales on a machine with many more processors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> matt
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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