Early Performance and Energy Prediction of Neural Networks Deployed on Multi-Core Platforms

Early evaluation of Neural Networks (NN) deployments on multi-core platforms is necessary to find deploymentsthat optimize resource usage, performance and energy. In this paper, we propose a timing and power modeling methodologywhich combines simulation, analytical models, and measurements to offer fast yet accurate performance and energy predictionof NN deployments on multi-core platforms. The proposed approach is validated against measurements obtained from a realimplementation of 27 mappings of four NNs with high accuracy and a fast evaluation time of approximatively 20 s per mapping