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Posted to dev@mxnet.apache.org by Lin Yuan <no...@github.com> on 2020/02/19 23:36:38 UTC

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC] Apache MXNet 2.0 Roadmap (#16167)

Is there a plan to remove the cudnn_off argument from the neural network operators such as Dropout, Convolution, Pool etc. It creates a few usability issues:
(1) Once a model is exported. It requires users to change this flag in all the layers manually if they want to enable/disable cuDNN. When the cudnn_off is set to true in some layers, the global env variable `MXNET_CUDNN_AUTOTUNE_DEFAULT` becomes don't care. It's very confusing to users to see an error message like "Please turn off MXNET_CUDNN_AUTOTUNE_DEFAULT" by indeed it does not do anything.
(2) Why did we expose such implementation detail to users at the first place? In the worst case, we should just provide a global variable to turn on/off cuDNN in all layers instead of at operator level.

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