A Solution to Optimize the Performance of Android Multimodal Model Deployments
When running multimodal AI models on Android devices, performance bottlenecks come from three main sources: computational resource limitations, excessive memory footprint, and slow model inference.The MNN framework provides a systematic solution:
- CPU-specific optimization: MNN has been optimized instruction set for ARM architecture and supports NEON acceleration. You can enable ARMv8.2 feature by adding '-DARM82=ON' during compilation to improve the efficiency of matrix operation 20% or more.
- Memory optimization techniques: Use 'MNN::BackendConfig' to set the memory reuse mode, and it is recommended to configure it as 'MemoryMode::MEMORY_BUFFER' to reduce dynamic memory allocation.
- Model Quantification Program: FP16 or INT8 quantization using the 'quantized.out' tool provided by MNN, which reduces the model size by a factor of 4 and increases the inference speed by a factor of 3 in typical scenarios
- Multi-threaded optimization: Set 'MNN_GPU' or 'MNN_CPU' + number of threads via 'Interpreter::setSessionMode'. parameter, suggest 4-6 threads to balance performance and power consumption.
Practical advice: perform model transformation tests with the 'MNN::Express' module, and then evaluate the performance under different configurations with the 'benchmark' tool.
This answer comes from the articleMNN-LLM-Android: MNN Multimodal Language Model for Android ApplicationsThe
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