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Paddle Lite is an updated version of Paddle-Mobile, an open-open source deep learning framework designed to make it easy to perform inference on mobile, embeded, and IoT devices. It is compatible with PaddlePaddle and pre-trained models from other sources.
For tutorials, please see PaddleLite Document.
Paddle Lite is designed to support a wide range of hardwares and devices, and it enables mixed execution of a single model on multiple devices, optimization on various phases, and light-weighted applications on devices.
As is shown in the figure above, analysis phase includes Machine IR module, and it enables optimizations like Op fusion and redundant computation pruning. Besides, excecution phase only involves Kernal execution, so it can be deployed on its own to ensure maximum light-weighted deployment.
The earlier Paddle-Mobile was designed to be compatible with PaddlePaddle and multiple hardwares, including ARM CPU, Mali GPU, Adreno GPU, FPGA, ARM-Linux and Apple's GPU Metal. Within Baidu, inc, many product lines have been using Paddle-Mobile.
As an update of Paddle-Mobile, Paddle Lite has incorporated many older capabilities into the new architecture.
Paddle Lite has referenced the following open-source projects: