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Main Authors: Chen, Sitian, Tan, Haobin, Zhou, Amelie Chi, Li, Yusen, Balaji, Pavan
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13941
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author Chen, Sitian
Tan, Haobin
Zhou, Amelie Chi
Li, Yusen
Balaji, Pavan
author_facet Chen, Sitian
Tan, Haobin
Zhou, Amelie Chi
Li, Yusen
Balaji, Pavan
contents Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) have gained popularity in recommendation systems due to their effectiveness in handling large-scale recommendation tasks. The embedding layers of DLRMs have become the performance bottleneck due to their intensive needs on memory capacity and memory bandwidth. In this paper, we propose UpDLRM, which utilizes real-world processingin-memory (PIM) hardware, UPMEM DPU, to boost the memory bandwidth and reduce recommendation latency. The parallel nature of the DPU memory can provide high aggregated bandwidth for the large number of irregular memory accesses in embedding lookups, thus offering great potential to reduce the inference latency. To fully utilize the DPU memory bandwidth, we further studied the embedding table partitioning problem to achieve good workload-balance and efficient data caching. Evaluations using real-world datasets show that, UpDLRM achieves much lower inference time for DLRM compared to both CPU-only and CPU-GPU hybrid counterparts.
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spellingShingle UpDLRM: Accelerating Personalized Recommendation using Real-World PIM Architecture
Chen, Sitian
Tan, Haobin
Zhou, Amelie Chi
Li, Yusen
Balaji, Pavan
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) have gained popularity in recommendation systems due to their effectiveness in handling large-scale recommendation tasks. The embedding layers of DLRMs have become the performance bottleneck due to their intensive needs on memory capacity and memory bandwidth. In this paper, we propose UpDLRM, which utilizes real-world processingin-memory (PIM) hardware, UPMEM DPU, to boost the memory bandwidth and reduce recommendation latency. The parallel nature of the DPU memory can provide high aggregated bandwidth for the large number of irregular memory accesses in embedding lookups, thus offering great potential to reduce the inference latency. To fully utilize the DPU memory bandwidth, we further studied the embedding table partitioning problem to achieve good workload-balance and efficient data caching. Evaluations using real-world datasets show that, UpDLRM achieves much lower inference time for DLRM compared to both CPU-only and CPU-GPU hybrid counterparts.
title UpDLRM: Accelerating Personalized Recommendation using Real-World PIM Architecture
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13941