BenchmarkΒΆ

The following figure shows the prediction throughput of treelite and XGBoost, measured with various batch sizes.

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System configuration. One AWS EC2 instance of type c4.8xlarge was used. It consists of the following components:

  • CPU: 36 virtual cores, 64-bit
  • Memory: 60 GB
  • Storage: Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

Datasets. Two datasets were used.

Methods. For both datasets, we trained a 1600-tree ensemble using XGBoost. Then we made predictions on batches of various sizes that were sampled randomly from the training data. After running predictions using treelite and XGBoost (latter with xgboost.Booster.predict()), we measured throughput as the number of lines predicted per second.

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Actual measurements. You may download the exact measurements using the following links: allstate.csv yahoo.csv

Caveats. For datasets with a small number of features (< 30) and few missing values, treelite may not produce any performance gain. The higgs dataset is one such example:

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We are investigating additional optimization strategies to further improve performance.