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148 changes: 133 additions & 15 deletions benchmark/cluster/README.md
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- Trainer Count: 100
- Metrics: mini-batch / sec

| Batch Size | 32 | 64 | 128 | 256 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| PaddlePaddle Fluid | - | - | - | - |
| PaddlePaddle v2 | - | - | - | - |
| TensorFlow | - | - | - | - |

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Batch Size </th>
<th> 32</th>
<th>64</th>
<th>128 </th>
<th>256</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> PaddlePaddle Fluid</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PaddlePaddle v2 </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TensorFlow </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

### Measure the Performance for Different PServer Count

- Trainer Count: 100
- Batch Size: 64
- Metrics: mini-batch / sec

| PServer Count | 10 | 20 | 40 | 60 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| PaddlePaddle Fluid | - | - | - | - |
| PaddlePaddle v2 | - | - | - | - |
| TensorFlow | - | - | - | - |

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>PServer Count </th>
<th>10</th>
<th>20</th>
<th>40 </th>
<th>60</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> PaddlePaddle Fluid</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PaddlePaddle v2 </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TensorFlow </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

### Measure Parallel Efficiency By Increasing Trainer Count

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$E = \div(S, N)$

| Trainer Counter | 1 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 100 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| PaddlePaddle Fluid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| PaddlePaddle v2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| TensorFlow | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Trainer Counter </th>
<th>1</th>
<th>10</th>
<th>20 </th>
<th>30</th>
<th>40</th>
<th>50</th>
<th>60 </th>
<th>70</th>
<th>80</th>
<th>90</th>
<th>100 </th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> PaddlePaddle Fluid</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PaddlePaddle v2 </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TensorFlow </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
<td>-</td>
<td>- </td>
<td>- </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


## Reproduce the benchmark

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- Metrics: samples / sec

| Batch Size | 32 | 64 | 128 | 256 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| PaddlePaddle Fluid | 15.44 | 16.32 | 16.74 | 16.79 |
| PaddlePaddle v2 | 15.97 | 17.04 | 17.60 | 17.83 |
| TensorFlow | 9.09 | 9.10 | 9.24 | 8.66 |
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Batch Size </th>
<th> 32</th>
<th>64</th>
<th>128 </th>
<th>256</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> PaddlePaddle Fluid</td>
<td> 15.44 </td>
<td> 16.32 </td>
<td> 16.74 </td>
<td> 16.79 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PaddlePaddle v2 </td>
<td> 15.97 </td>
<td> 17.04 </td>
<td> 17.60 </td>
<td> 17.83 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TensorFlow </td>
<td> 9.09 </td>
<td> 9.10 </td>
<td> 9.24 </td>
<td> 8.66 </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


### Different Batch Size

- PServer Count: 10
- Trainer Count: 20
- Metrics: samples / sec

| Batch Size | 32 | 64 | 128 | 256 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| PaddlePaddle Fluid | 190.20 | 222.15 | 247.40 | 258.18 |
| PaddlePaddle v2 | 170.96 | 233.71 | 256.14 | 329.23 |
| TensorFlow | - | - | - | - |

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Batch Size </th>
<th> 32</th>
<th>64</th>
<th>128 </th>
<th>256</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> PaddlePaddle Fluid</td>
<td> 190.20 </td>
<td> 222.15 </td>
<td> 247.40 </td>
<td> 258.18 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PaddlePaddle v2 </td>
<td> 170.96 </td>
<td> 233.71 </td>
<td> 256.14 </td>
<td> 329.23 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TensorFlow </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

### Accelerate Rate

- Pserver Count: 20
- Batch Size: 128
- Metrics: samples / sec

| Trainer Count | 20 | 40 | 80 | 100 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| PaddlePaddle Fluid | 263.29 (78.64%) | 518.80 (77.47%) | 836.26 (62.44%) | 1019.29 (60.89%) |
| PaddlePaddle v2 (need more tests) | 326.85 (92.85%) | 534.58 (75.93%) | 853.30 (60.60%) | 1041.99 (59.20%) |
| TensorFlow | - | - | - | - |
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Trainer Count </th>
<th>20</th>
<th>40</th>
<th>80</th>
<th>100</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> PaddlePaddle Fluid</td>
<td> 263.29 (78.64%) </td>
<td> 518.80 (77.47%) </td>
<td> 836.26 (62.44%) </td>
<td> 1019.29 (60.89%) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PaddlePaddle v2 (need more tests) </td>
<td> 326.85 (92.85%) </td>
<td> 534.58 (75.93%) </td>
<td> 853.30 (60.60%) </td>
<td> 1041.99 (59.20%) </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TensorFlow </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


### Different Pserver Count

- Trainer Count: 60
- Batch Size: 128
- Metrics: samples/ sec

| PServer Count | 3 | 6 |10 | 20 |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| PaddlePaddle Fluid(should fix in next PR) | 589.1 | 592.6 | 656.4 | 655.8 |
| PaddlePaddle v2 | 593.4 | 791.3 | 729.7 | 821.7 |
| TensorFlow | - | - | - | - |
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>PServer Count </th>
<th>3</th>
<th>6</th>
<th>10</th>
<th>20</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> PaddlePaddle Fluid(should fix in next PR) </td>
<td> 589.1 </td>
<td> 592.6 </td>
<td> 656.4 </td>
<td> 655.8 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PaddlePaddle v2 (need more tests) </td>
<td> 593.4 </td>
<td> 791.3 </td>
<td> 729.7 </td>
<td> 821.7 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>TensorFlow </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
<td> - </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


*The performance gap between Fuild and v2 comes from the network interference.*

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Hence, to accelerate the speed of Stochastic Gradient Descent, Averaged Stochastic Gradient Descent (ASGD) was proposed in Polyak and Juditsky (1992). For ASGD, the running average of parameters obtained by SGD, is used as the estimator for <img src="./images/theta_star.gif"/><br/> . The averaging is done as follows:

<img src="./images/asgd.gif" align="center"/><br/>
![](./images/asgd.gif)

We propose averaging for any optimizer similar to how ASGD performs it, as mentioned above.

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