{
  "id": 159612,
  "title": "TPU running time is 5 times more than GPU",
  "url": "/competitions/alaska2-image-steganalysis/discussion/159612",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-06-18T02:49:24.370127500Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi, I am working on inceptionv3 and the training time on TPU takes 5 times longer than GPU for each epoch, though the inception layers are freezed. is it normal? any suggestions to improve the performance.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "891214",
      "postDate": "06/18/2020 02:49:24",
      "content": "<p>Hi, I am working on inceptionv3 and the training time on TPU takes 5 times longer than GPU for each epoch, though the inception layers are freezed. is it normal? any suggestions to improve the performance.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi, I am working on inceptionv3 and the training time on TPU takes 5 times longer than GPU for each epoch, though the inception layers are freezed. is it normal? any suggestions to improve the performance.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "893048",
      "postDate": "06/19/2020 10:41:54",
      "content": "<p>I haven't started this competition yet. But I have used TPU and it shouldn't take longer time AFAIK.\nYou should follow public notebooks.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I haven't started this competition yet. But I have used TPU and it shouldn't take longer time AFAIK.\nYou should follow public notebooks.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "901901",
      "postDate": "06/25/2020 19:28:23",
      "content": "<p>did you try multiple epoch\nin frist epoch it take time longer than gpu\nafter that it take less</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "did you try multiple epoch\nin frist epoch it take time longer than gpu\nafter that it take less",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 893048,
      "author_name": "zaber666",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/19/2020 10:41:54",
      "content": "<p>I haven't started this competition yet. But I have used TPU and it shouldn't take longer time AFAIK.\nYou should follow public notebooks.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 901901,
      "author_name": "ajax0564",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/25/2020 19:28:23",
      "content": "<p>did you try multiple epoch\nin frist epoch it take time longer than gpu\nafter that it take less</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "891214": "Hi, I am working on inceptionv3 and the training time on TPU takes 5 times longer than GPU for each epoch, though the inception layers are freezed. is it normal? any suggestions to improve the performance.",
    "893048": "I haven't started this competition yet. But I have used TPU and it shouldn't take longer time AFAIK.\nYou should follow public notebooks.",
    "901901": "did you try multiple epoch\nin frist epoch it take time longer than gpu\nafter that it take less"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}