LeViT: Optimized for Mobile Deployment

Imagenet classifier and general purpose backbone

LeViT is a vision transformer model that can classify images from the Imagenet dataset.

This model is an implementation of LeViT found here.

This repository provides scripts to run LeViT on Qualcomm® devices. More details on model performance across various devices, can be found here.

Model Details

• Model Type: Image classification
• Model Stats:
  • Model checkpoint: LeViT-128S
  • Input resolution: 224x224
  • Number of parameters: 7.82M
  • Model size: 29.9 MB

Model	Device	Chipset	Target Runtime	Inference Time (ms)	Peak Memory Range (MB)	Precision	Primary Compute Unit	Target Model
LeViT	Samsung Galaxy S23	Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2	TFLITE	1.364 ms	0 - 49 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.tflite
LeViT	Samsung Galaxy S23	Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2	QNN	1.332 ms	1 - 4 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.so
LeViT	Samsung Galaxy S23	Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2	ONNX	2.082 ms	0 - 53 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.onnx
LeViT	Samsung Galaxy S24	Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3	TFLITE	0.971 ms	0 - 26 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.tflite
LeViT	Samsung Galaxy S24	Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3	QNN	0.932 ms	0 - 15 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.so
LeViT	Samsung Galaxy S24	Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3	ONNX	1.403 ms	1 - 35 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.onnx
LeViT	Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD	Snapdragon® 8 Elite	TFLITE	0.995 ms	0 - 30 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.tflite
LeViT	Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD	Snapdragon® 8 Elite	QNN	0.876 ms	1 - 22 MB	FP16	NPU	Use Export Script
LeViT	Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD	Snapdragon® 8 Elite	ONNX	1.471 ms	1 - 28 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.onnx
LeViT	QCS8275 (Proxy)	QCS8275 Proxy	TFLITE	14.104 ms	0 - 18 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.tflite
LeViT	QCS8275 (Proxy)	QCS8275 Proxy	QNN	11.532 ms	1 - 8 MB	FP16	NPU	Use Export Script
LeViT	QCS8550 (Proxy)	QCS8550 Proxy	TFLITE	1.369 ms	0 - 59 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.tflite
LeViT	QCS8550 (Proxy)	QCS8550 Proxy	QNN	1.325 ms	1 - 3 MB	FP16	NPU	Use Export Script
LeViT	QCS9075 (Proxy)	QCS9075 Proxy	TFLITE	2.174 ms	0 - 18 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.tflite
LeViT	QCS9075 (Proxy)	QCS9075 Proxy	QNN	2.24 ms	1 - 7 MB	FP16	NPU	Use Export Script
LeViT	QCS8450 (Proxy)	QCS8450 Proxy	TFLITE	1.634 ms	0 - 24 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.tflite
LeViT	QCS8450 (Proxy)	QCS8450 Proxy	QNN	1.653 ms	1 - 26 MB	FP16	NPU	Use Export Script
LeViT	Snapdragon X Elite CRD	Snapdragon® X Elite	QNN	1.516 ms	1 - 1 MB	FP16	NPU	Use Export Script
LeViT	Snapdragon X Elite CRD	Snapdragon® X Elite	ONNX	2.12 ms	18 - 18 MB	FP16	NPU	LeViT.onnx

Installation

Install the package via pip:

pip install "qai-hub-models[levit]"

Configure Qualcomm® AI Hub to run this model on a cloud-hosted device

Sign-in to Qualcomm® AI Hub with your Qualcomm® ID. Once signed in navigate to Account -> Settings -> API Token.

With this API token, you can configure your client to run models on the cloud hosted devices.

qai-hub configure --api_token API_TOKEN

Navigate to docs for more information.

Demo off target

The package contains a simple end-to-end demo that downloads pre-trained weights and runs this model on a sample input.

python -m qai_hub_models.models.levit.demo

The above demo runs a reference implementation of pre-processing, model inference, and post processing.

NOTE: If you want running in a Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab like environment, please add the following to your cell (instead of the above).

%run -m qai_hub_models.models.levit.demo

Run model on a cloud-hosted device

In addition to the demo, you can also run the model on a cloud-hosted Qualcomm® device. This script does the following:

• Performance check on-device on a cloud-hosted device
• Downloads compiled assets that can be deployed on-device for Android.
• Accuracy check between PyTorch and on-device outputs.

python -m qai_hub_models.models.levit.export

Profiling Results
------------------------------------------------------------
LeViT
Device                          : Samsung Galaxy S23 (13)
Runtime                         : TFLITE                 
Estimated inference time (ms)   : 1.4                    
Estimated peak memory usage (MB): [0, 49]                
Total # Ops                     : 306                    
Compute Unit(s)                 : NPU (306 ops)          

How does this work?

This export script leverages Qualcomm® AI Hub to optimize, validate, and deploy this model on-device. Lets go through each step below in detail:

Step 1: Compile model for on-device deployment

To compile a PyTorch model for on-device deployment, we first trace the model in memory using the jit.trace and then call the submit_compile_job API.

import torch

import qai_hub as hub
from qai_hub_models.models.levit import Model

# Load the model
torch_model = Model.from_pretrained()

# Device
device = hub.Device("Samsung Galaxy S24")

# Trace model
input_shape = torch_model.get_input_spec()
sample_inputs = torch_model.sample_inputs()

pt_model = torch.jit.trace(torch_model, [torch.tensor(data[0]) for _, data in sample_inputs.items()])

# Compile model on a specific device
compile_job = hub.submit_compile_job(
    model=pt_model,
    device=device,
    input_specs=torch_model.get_input_spec(),
)

# Get target model to run on-device
target_model = compile_job.get_target_model()

Step 2: Performance profiling on cloud-hosted device

After compiling models from step 1. Models can be profiled model on-device using the target_model. Note that this scripts runs the model on a device automatically provisioned in the cloud. Once the job is submitted, you can navigate to a provided job URL to view a variety of on-device performance metrics.

profile_job = hub.submit_profile_job(
    model=target_model,
    device=device,
)
        

Step 3: Verify on-device accuracy

To verify the accuracy of the model on-device, you can run on-device inference on sample input data on the same cloud hosted device.

input_data = torch_model.sample_inputs()
inference_job = hub.submit_inference_job(
    model=target_model,
    device=device,
    inputs=input_data,
)
    on_device_output = inference_job.download_output_data()

With the output of the model, you can compute like PSNR, relative errors or spot check the output with expected output.

Note: This on-device profiling and inference requires access to Qualcomm® AI Hub. Sign up for access.

Run demo on a cloud-hosted device

You can also run the demo on-device.

python -m qai_hub_models.models.levit.demo --on-device

NOTE: If you want running in a Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab like environment, please add the following to your cell (instead of the above).

%run -m qai_hub_models.models.levit.demo -- --on-device

Deploying compiled model to Android

The models can be deployed using multiple runtimes:

• TensorFlow Lite (.tflite export): This tutorial provides a guide to deploy the .tflite model in an Android application.

• QNN (.so export ): This sample app provides instructions on how to use the .so shared library in an Android application.

View on Qualcomm® AI Hub

Get more details on LeViT's performance across various devices here. Explore all available models on Qualcomm® AI Hub

License

• The license for the original implementation of LeViT can be found here.
• The license for the compiled assets for on-device deployment can be found here

References

• LeViT: a Vision Transformer in ConvNet's Clothing for Faster Inference
• Source Model Implementation

Community

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• For questions or feedback please reach out to us.