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Etalumis: Bringing Probabilistic Programming to Scientific Simulators at Scale
SessionPower and Scale
Event Type
Paper
TP
Deep Learning
Energy
Extreme Scale Computing
Machine Learning
Performance
Power
Resource Management
Runtime Systems
Simulation
BP Finalist
TimeTuesday, 19 November 20194:30pm - 5pm
Location405-406-407
DescriptionProbabilistic programming languages (PPLs) are receiving widespread attention for performing Bayesian inference in complex generative models. However, applications to science remain limited because of the impracticability of rewriting complex scientific simulators in a PPL, the computational cost of inference, and the lack of scalable implementations. To address these, we present a novel PPL framework that couples directly to existing scientific simulators through a cross-platform probabilistic execution protocol and provides Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and deep-learning-based inference compilation (IC) engines for tractable inference. To guide IC inference, we perform distributed training of a dynamic 3DCNN-LSTM architecture with a PyTorch-MPI-based framework on 1,024 32-core CPU nodes of the Cori supercomputer with a global minibatch size of 128k: achieving a performance of 450 Tflop/s through enhancements to PyTorch. We demonstrate a Large Hadron Collider (LHC) use-case with the C++ Sherpa simulator and achieve the largest-scale posterior inference in a Turing-complete PPL.
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