Distributed Transfer Learning with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Processors

Abstract

In this paper, we explore how transfer learning, coupled with Intel Xeon, specifically 4th Gen Intel Xeon scalable processor, defies the conventional belief that training is primarily GPU-dependent. We present a case study where we achieved near state-of-the-art accuracy for image classification on a publicly available Image Classification TensorFlow dataset using Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions(AMX) and distributed training with Horovod.