Boosting PyTorch Inference on CPU: From Post-Training Quantization to Multithreading

<p>Welcome to another edition of &ldquo;<a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/the-kaggle-blueprints-unlocking-winning-approaches-to-data-science-competitions-24d7416ef5fd" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Kaggle Blueprints</a>&rdquo;, where we will analyze&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kaggle.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Kaggle</a>&nbsp;competitions&rsquo; winning solutions for lessons we can apply to our own data science projects.</p> <p>This edition will review the techniques and approaches from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/birdclef-2023/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">&ldquo;BirdCLEF 2023</a>&rdquo; competition, which ended in May 2023.</p> <h1>Problem Statement: Deep Learning Inference under Limited Time and Computation Constraints</h1> <p>The BirdCLEF competitions are a series of annually recurring competitions on Kaggle. The main objective of a BirdCLEF competition is usually to identify a specific bird species by sound. The competitors are given short audio files of single bird calls and then must predict whether a specific bird was present in a longer recording.</p> <p>In an earlier edition of&nbsp;The Kaggle Blueprints, we have already reviewed the winning approaches to audio classification with Deep Learning from last year&rsquo;s &ldquo;BirdCLEF 2022&rdquo; competition.</p> <p>One aspect that was novel in the&nbsp;&ldquo;BirdCLEF 2023&rdquo; competition was the limited time and computational constraints:&nbsp;<strong>Competitors were asked to predict roughly 200 10-minute-long recordings&nbsp;on a CPU Notebook within 2 hours.</strong></p> <p><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/boosting-pytorch-inference-on-cpu-from-post-training-quantization-to-multithreading-6820ac7349bb">Click Here</a></p>