fast_sligru is an open-source CUDA implementation that is the fastest public version of the Stabilised Light Gated Recurrent Units. The implementation supports fp16, fp32, and fp64. It is based and compatible with PyTorch out of the box.

We benchmark the SLi-GRU on LibriSpeech and went from 7h19 to 2h33 of training time for one epoch on a single GPU (A100 80Gb).

For questions or feedback about fast_sligru, please open an issue on GitHub or send me an email at adel.moumen@univ-avignon.fr.

GPU performance

Benchmarked on a single Tesla V100s (32Gb) (see: benchmark/benchmark.py). The improvements are more pronounced when running on longer sequences. Each SLi-GRU is composed of 4 layers of 512 units. The input size is 1024. The batch size is 16.

Forward pass:

Batch=16	fast SLi-GRU (CUDA+PyTorch)	slow SLi-GRU (PyTorch)
L=100	0.05 s	0.11 s
L=500	0.25 s	0.55 s
L=1000	0.50 s	1.11 s
L=2000	1.02 s	2.26 s
L=3000	1.55 s	3.39 s

Backward pass:

Batch=16	fast SLi-GRU (CUDA+PyTorch)	slow SLi-GRU (PyTorch)
L=100	0.15 s	0.25 s
L=500	0.63 s	1.29 s
L=1000	1.27 s	3.68 s
L=2000	2.65 s	11.87 s
L=3000	3.84 s	24.39 s

How to use it with SpeechBrain

You just have to change the name of the RNN class in your yaml file. See ASR seq2seq LibriSpeech: SpeechBrain

# in your yaml file
rnn_class: !name:fast_sligru.fast_ligru.LiGRU
# or if you want to use the SLi-GRU
rnn_class: !name:fast_sligru.fast_sligru.SLiGRU

How to use it with PyTorch

import torch
from fast_sligru import fast_sligru

batch, time, feats = 10, 10, 10
hidden_size, num_layer, dropout = 512, 4, 0.1

device = "cuda" # it works with CPU too

inp_tensor = torch.randn((batch, time, feats), requires_grad=False).to(device)
net = fast_sligru.SLiGRU( 
    input_shape=inp_tensor.shape,
    hidden_size=hidden_size,
    num_layers=num_layer,
    dropout=dropout,
).to(device)

# forward
out_tensor, _ = net(inp_tensor)

# backward
out_tensor.sum().backward()

How to install

To build the package:

git clone https://github.com/Adel-Moumen/fast_sligru.git
cd fast_sligru/
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

Citing this work

To cite this work, please use the following BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{10095763,
  author={Moumen, Adel and Parcollet, Titouan},
  booktitle={ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, 
  title={Stabilising and Accelerating Light Gated Recurrent Units for Automatic Speech Recognition}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-5},
  doi={10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095763}
}

License

Apache 2.0