摘要在执行PTQ或者QAT量化时确定FeatureMap的minmax值有很多种方式其它方式这里不做赘述主要介绍TI的edgevision中QAT相关实现代码使用的Percentile这种方式来确定FeatureMap的minmax理解感悟作为记录。工程代码中确定min,max的入口函数如下x_min,x_maxutils.extrema_fast(x,range_shrink_percentileTrue,fast_modeFalse)对应实现代码如下defextrema_fast(src,range_shrink_percentile0.0,channel_meanFalse,sigma0.0,fast_modeTrue):returnextrema(src,range_shrink_percentile,channel_mean,sigma,fast_mode)extrema函数实现如下defextrema(src,range_shrink_percentile0.0,channel_meanFalse,sigma0.0,fast_modeFalse):ifrange_shrink_percentile0andsigma0andchannel_meanFalse:mnsrc.min()mxsrc.max()returnmn,mxelifrange_shrink_percentile:# downsample for fast_modehist_array,mn,mx,mult_factor,offsettensor_histogram(src,fast_modefast_mode)ifhist_arrayisNone:returnmn,mx new_mn_scaled,new_mx_scaledextrema_hist_search(hist_array,range_shrink_percentile)new_mn(new_mn_scaled/mult_factor)offset new_mx(new_mx_scaled/mult_factor)offset# take care of floating point inaccuracies that can# increase the range (in rare cases) beyond the actual range.new_mnmax(mn,new_mn)new_mxmin(mx,new_mx)returnnew_mn,new_mxelifchannel_mean:dim[0,2,3]ifsrc.dim()4elseNonemntorch.amin(src,dimdim,keepdimFalse).mean()mxtorch.amax(src,dimdim,keepdimFalse).mean()returnmn,mxelifsigma:meantorch.mean(src)stdtorch.std(src)mnmean-sigma*std mxmeansigma*stdreturnmn,mxelse:assertFalse,unknown extrema computation mode其中的核心是tensor_histogram和extrema_hist_search的函数实现deftensor_histogram(src,fast_modeFalse):# downsample for fast_modefast_stride2fast_stride2fast_stride*2iffast_modeandlen(src.size())4and(src.size(2)fast_stride2)and(src.size(3)fast_stride2):r_startrandom.randint(0,fast_stride-1)c_startrandom.randint(0,fast_stride-1)srcsrc[...,r_start::fast_stride,c_start::fast_stride]#mnsrc.min()mxsrc.max()ifmn0andmx0:returnNone,mn,mx,1.0,0.0## compute range_shrink_percentile based min/max# frequency - bincount can only operate on unsignednum_bins255.0cum_freqfloat(100.0)offsetmn range_valtorch.abs(mx-mn)mult_factor(num_bins/range_val)tensor_int(src.contiguous().view(-1)-offset)*mult_factor tensor_intfunctional.round_g(tensor_int).int()# numpy version# hist np.bincount(tensor_int.cpu().numpy())# hist_sum np.sum(hist)# hist_array hist.astype(np.float32) * cum_freq / float(hist_sum)# torch versionhisttorch.bincount(tensor_int)# calculate appearing number for each element in tensorhist_sumtorch.sum(hist)histhist.float()*cum_freq/hist_sum.float()hist_arrayhist.cpu().numpy()returnhist_array,mn,mx,mult_factor,offset# this code is not parallelizable. better to pass a numpy arraydefextrema_hist_search(hist_array,range_shrink_percentile):new_mn_scaled0new_mx_scaledlen(hist_array)-1hist_sum_left0.0hist_sum_right0.0forh_idxinrange(len(hist_array)):r_idxlen(hist_array)-1-h_idx hist_sum_lefthist_array[h_idx]hist_sum_righthist_array[r_idx]ifhist_sum_leftrange_shrink_percentile:new_mn_scaledh_idxifhist_sum_rightrange_shrink_percentile:new_mx_scaledr_idx##returnnew_mn_scaled,new_mx_scaled代码实现就是这些且看每一步都在做什么。入口代码且不必说主要看最后的核心实现函数其中src参数就是featuremap入参进去也就是Tensor矩阵进来mnsrc.min() 和mxsrc.max()作为基础的min,max值 只要mn、mx不为0那就开始使用percentile这种方式来确定mn、mx参数假设输入srctorch.Tensor(np.random.randn(5, 5, 5))通过如下方式将所有点映射到[0,255], 推测这里使用255主要是使用8bit量化方式。num_bins255.0cum_freqfloat(100.0)offsetmn range_valtorch.abs(mx-mn)mult_factor(num_bins/range_val)tensor_int(src.contiguous().view(-1)-offset)*mult_factor tensor_intfunctional.round_g(tensor_int).int()而后取整并统计tensor_int在0-255上每个整数值出现的次数这里可以看如下测试获得相应结果srctensor([[[1.2441,-0.0867,0.9002,-0.1932,2.3541],[-0.4824,-0.3223,2.5375,-1.7840,1.9771],[0.3940,-1.4480,-0.3781,-0.7957,-1.0538],[-1.2109,-0.3825,0.9433,-1.1705,0.3820],[2.3790,0.0455,1.0485,-1.2459,0.1798]],[[-0.8588,1.2191,1.4201,0.6451,0.1503],[-0.1744,0.3837,-0.7574,-0.6267,-0.8850],[1.2707,0.0152,-0.8123,1.0253,-1.2014],[0.4145,-1.8473,-1.1998,-1.1097,-0.2954],[1.3490,0.3272,-0.7207,0.8277,-1.4434]],[[-0.4233,-0.5626,-0.5374,0.5536,0.7213],[2.1416,0.1454,1.3634,1.3695,0.2687],[0.0225,0.6928,0.5589,-0.1421,-1.0773],[-0.9817,1.0085,1.0390,0.6374,-0.4628],[-0.4807,-0.8651,0.9142,-0.1464,0.4845]],[[-0.5339,1.2211,0.5690,-0.3386,-0.8696],[-1.6646,-0.4744,2.2127,0.1378,-0.3506],[-0.4366,0.9862,-1.0315,-0.2987,-0.7905],[0.8619,0.1890,0.2300,1.4928,-0.3998],[0.3227,-1.3765,-0.7497,-0.0803,-1.1507]],[[0.1519,-0.8967,0.3365,-0.2855,-0.2702],[1.1136,0.3253,2.6808,0.4749,-1.1373],[-1.4715,-1.5497,-0.5941,-0.3381,-0.1578],[0.1751,0.4058,0.4405,1.0508,-0.8351],[1.3446,1.4361,1.0363,-0.2064,1.6912]]])histtensor([1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,3,0,1,1,1,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,2,0,0,3,1,1,1,0,2,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,0,0,1,1,1,1,2,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,2,0,1,0,0,0,0,3,1,2,1,0,1,0,1,0,0,3,1,0,0,3,2,0,1,0,2,0,0,0,1,2,0,0,0,2,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,2,3,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,1,0,1,0,0,0,2,2,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1])之后对hist再做一次缩放的计算就得到来hist_arrray矩阵该矩阵会对mx、mn的更新起到决定性作用。histtorch.bincount(tensor_int)# calculate appearing number for each element in tensorhist_sumtorch.sum(hist)histhist.float()*cum_freq/hist_sum.float()hist_arrayhist.cpu().numpy()extrema_hist_search中进行mx、mn的更新, 从hist_array两端开始不断累积查找寻找到大于range_shrink_percentile的index并返回通过tensor_histogram函数返回的mult_factor, offset计算新的new_mn、new_mxnew_mn(new_mn_scaled/mult_factor)offset new_mx(new_mx_scaled/mult_factor)offset与原来的mn和mx进行比较从而更新mn和mxnew_mnmax(mn,new_mn)new_mxmin(mx,new_mx)returnnew_mn,new_mx这里不太理解的其实是最后new_mn、new_mx的反结算方式这算是一种更新方式而不是tensor_histogram的逆运算。