Port fused_conv_bias_relu to ROCm#295
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Motivation
Nvidia/apex has fused_conv_bias_relu module which has not yet been ported to ROCm due to dependency on cuDNN. This PR ports this module to ROCm using MIOpen library calls.
Technical Details
This PR uses MIOpen's fusion APIs to fuse separate kernels into a single kernel in order to reduce off-chip memory access and avoid kernel launch overhead. Using MIOpen’s fusion API, you can specify operators that you want to fuse into a single kernel, compile that kernel, and then launch it.
Reference: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/MIOpen/en/docs-7.1.1/how-to/use-fusion-api.html
The general workflow is:
Currently, the fusion API supports these operators:
More information about the options for operators such as datatypes, strides, filters, etc. at https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/MIOpen/en/docs-7.1.1/how-to/use-fusion-api.html#supported-fusions
For ConvBias module, the Activation is set to CLAMP with the values of alpha and beta set to minimum and maximum float values.
It uses MIOpen for the forward calls and ATen for the backward calls since MIOpen doesn't support fusion for convolution for backward calls yet.
Test Plan
Compile apex and run unit test created specifically for retinanet.
python apex/contrib/test/conv_bias_relu/test_conv_bias_relu.py -k test_conv_bias_retinanetTest Result
Apex compiles and unit test passes.
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