CUDA Optimized Simple Recurrent Unit (SRU)

• Training RNNs as Fast as CNNs

Todo

• CUDA optimized forward computation
• CUDA optimized backward computation
• Testing
• Training language models
• Benchmark

Requirements

• Chainer 2+
• CuPy
• Python 2 or 3

Language Modeling

Penn Treebank

cd examples/ptb
python3 train.py -b 32 -nf 128 -l 35 -opt msgd -lr 1 -g 0 -e 300 -lrd 30 -nl 2 -m 128x2.hdf5 -dos 0.5 -dor 0.2 -tanh
python3 train.py -b 32 -nf 320 -l 35 -opt msgd -lr 1 -g 0 -e 300 -lrd 30 -nl 2 -m 320x2.hdf5 -dos 0.5 -dor 0.2 -tanh

Model	#layers	d	Perplexity
LSTM	2	640	89
SRU	2	640	92
SRU	2	320	92
LSTM	2	320	93
SRU	2	128	110
LSTM	2	128	117

Benchmark