torch.export AOTInductor Tutorial for Python runtime (Beta)

Created On: Aug 23, 2024 | Last Updated: Jan 24, 2025 | Last Verified: Nov 05, 2024

Author: Ankith Gunapal, Bin Bao, Angela Yi

Warning

torch._inductor.aoti_compile_and_package and torch._inductor.aoti_load_package are in Beta status and are subject to backwards compatibility breaking changes. This tutorial provides an example of how to use these APIs for model deployment using Python runtime.

It has been shown previously how AOTInductor can be used to do Ahead-of-Time compilation of PyTorch exported models by creating an artifact that can be run in a non-Python environment. In this tutorial, you will learn an end-to-end example of how to use AOTInductor for Python runtime.

Contents

Prerequisites

• PyTorch 2.6 or later

• Basic understanding of torch.export and AOTInductor

• Complete the AOTInductor: Ahead-Of-Time Compilation for Torch.Export-ed Models tutorial

What you will learn

• How to use AOTInductor for Python runtime.

• How to use torch._inductor.aoti_compile_and_package() along with torch.export.export() to generate a compiled artifact

• How to load and run the artifact in a Python runtime using torch._export.aot_load().

• When to you use AOTInductor with a Python runtime

Model Compilation

We will use the TorchVision pretrained ResNet18 model as an example.

The first step is to export the model to a graph representation using torch.export.export(). To learn more about using this function, you can check out the docs or the tutorial.

Once we have exported the PyTorch model and obtained an ExportedProgram, we can apply torch._inductor.aoti_compile_and_package() to AOTInductor to compile the program to a specified device, and save the generated contents into a “.pt2” artifact.

Note

This API supports the same available options that torch.compile() has, such as mode and max_autotune (for those who want to enable CUDA graphs and leverage Triton based matrix multiplications and convolutions)

import os
import torch
import torch._inductor
from torchvision.models import ResNet18_Weights, resnet18

model = resnet18(weights=ResNet18_Weights.DEFAULT)
model.eval()

with torch.inference_mode():
    inductor_configs = {}

    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        device = "cuda"
        inductor_configs["max_autotune"] = True
    else:
        device = "cpu"

    model = model.to(device=device)
    example_inputs = (torch.randn(2, 3, 224, 224, device=device),)

    exported_program = torch.export.export(
        model,
        example_inputs,
    )
    path = torch._inductor.aoti_compile_and_package(
        exported_program,
        package_path=os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "resnet18.pt2"),
        inductor_configs=inductor_configs
    )

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/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/torch/_inductor/compile_fx.py:236: UserWarning:

TensorFloat32 tensor cores for float32 matrix multiplication available but not enabled. Consider setting `torch.set_float32_matmul_precision('high')` for better performance.

AUTOTUNE convolution(2x3x224x224, 64x3x7x7)
  convolution 0.0973 ms 100.0%
  triton_convolution2d_4 0.1516 ms 64.2% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=7, KERNEL_W=7, PADDING_H=3, PADDING_W=3, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_0 0.1546 ms 62.9% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=7, KERNEL_W=7, PADDING_H=3, PADDING_W=3, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_3 0.1966 ms 49.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=7, KERNEL_W=7, PADDING_H=3, PADDING_W=3, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_5 0.2376 ms 40.9% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=7, KERNEL_W=7, PADDING_H=3, PADDING_W=3, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_2 0.3041 ms 32.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=1024, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=7, KERNEL_W=7, PADDING_H=3, PADDING_W=3, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_1 0.4045 ms 24.1% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=7, KERNEL_W=7, PADDING_H=3, PADDING_W=3, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.4097 seconds and 0.0008 seconds precompiling for 7 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x64x56x56, 64x64x3x3)
  triton_convolution2d_11 0.0369 ms 100.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_6 0.0379 ms 97.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_10 0.0410 ms 90.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_9 0.0420 ms 87.8% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_7 0.0604 ms 61.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_12 0.0655 ms 56.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  convolution 0.0809 ms 45.6%
  triton_convolution2d_8 0.1208 ms 30.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=1024, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.1827 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x64x56x56, 128x64x3x3)
  triton_convolution2d_38 0.0307 ms 100.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_39 0.0359 ms 85.6% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_34 0.0502 ms 61.2% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_35 0.0584 ms 52.6% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_40 0.0625 ms 49.2% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_37 0.0645 ms 47.6% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  convolution 0.0686 ms 44.8%
  triton_convolution2d_36 0.1126 ms 27.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=1024, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.1786 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x128x28x28, 128x128x3x3)
  convolution 0.0451 ms 100.0%
  triton_convolution2d_45 0.0492 ms 91.7% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_46 0.0748 ms 60.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_41 0.0901 ms 50.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_42 0.1106 ms 40.7% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_44 0.1148 ms 39.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_47 0.1198 ms 37.6% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_43 0.2273 ms 19.8% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=1024, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.2115 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x64x56x56, 128x64x1x1)
  triton_convolution2d_52 0.0082 ms 100.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_53 0.0102 ms 80.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_48 0.0113 ms 72.7% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_51 0.0133 ms 61.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_54 0.0133 ms 61.4% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_49 0.0154 ms 53.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  convolution 0.0174 ms 47.1%
  triton_convolution2d_50 0.0195 ms 42.1% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=1024, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.1501 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x128x28x28, 256x128x3x3)
  triton_convolution2d_73 0.0461 ms 100.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  convolution 0.0543 ms 84.9%
  triton_convolution2d_69 0.1065 ms 43.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_70 0.1085 ms 42.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_74 0.1085 ms 42.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_75 0.1157 ms 39.8% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_72 0.1208 ms 38.1% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_71 0.1782 ms 25.9% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=1024, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.2133 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x256x14x14, 256x256x3x3)
  convolution 0.0522 ms 100.0%
  triton_convolution2d_80 0.0922 ms 56.7% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_81 0.2048 ms 25.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_76 0.2058 ms 25.4% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_77 0.2130 ms 24.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_78 0.2130 ms 24.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=512, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_79 0.2232 ms 23.4% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_82 0.2335 ms 22.4% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.2750 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x128x28x28, 256x128x1x1)
  triton_convolution2d_87 0.0102 ms 100.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  convolution 0.0164 ms 62.5%
  triton_convolution2d_86 0.0184 ms 55.6% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_88 0.0195 ms 52.6% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_89 0.0195 ms 52.6% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_83 0.0225 ms 45.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_84 0.0225 ms 45.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_85 0.0266 ms 38.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=1024, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.1482 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x256x14x14, 512x256x3x3)
  convolution 0.0553 ms 100.0%
  triton_convolution2d_108 0.0901 ms 61.4% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_104 0.2068 ms 26.7% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_106 0.2089 ms 26.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=512, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_109 0.2130 ms 26.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_110 0.2324 ms 23.8% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_107 0.2365 ms 23.4% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_105 0.2724 ms 20.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.2772 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x512x7x7, 512x512x3x3)
  convolution 0.0983 ms 100.0%
  triton_convolution2d_115 0.1823 ms 53.9% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_113 0.2161 ms 45.5% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_117 0.2703 ms 36.4% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_112 0.2857 ms 34.4% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_111 0.4086 ms 24.1% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_116 0.4219 ms 23.3% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_114 0.4424 ms 22.2% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=3, KERNEL_W=3, PADDING_H=1, PADDING_W=1, STRIDE_H=1, STRIDE_W=1, UNROLL=False, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.2990 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE convolution(2x256x14x14, 512x256x1x1)
  triton_convolution2d_122 0.0143 ms 100.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_120 0.0256 ms 56.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=512, BLOCK_N=16, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=1, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_118 0.0287 ms 50.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_119 0.0287 ms 50.0% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  triton_convolution2d_121 0.0307 ms 46.7% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_124 0.0307 ms 46.7% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=256, BLOCK_N=64, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  triton_convolution2d_123 0.0317 ms 45.2% ALLOW_TF32=True, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=64, BLOCK_N=256, GROUPS=1, KERNEL_H=1, KERNEL_W=1, PADDING_H=0, PADDING_W=0, STRIDE_H=2, STRIDE_W=2, UNROLL=True, num_stages=2, num_warps=8
  convolution 0.0737 ms 19.4%
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.1586 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 8 choices
AUTOTUNE addmm(2x1000, 2x512, 512x1000)
  triton_mm_142 0.0215 ms 100.0% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=32, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=5, num_warps=2
  triton_mm_143 0.0225 ms 95.5% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=128, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=32, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=5, num_warps=2
  triton_mm_140 0.0246 ms 87.5% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=128, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=32, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=2, num_warps=2
  triton_mm_152 0.0298 ms 72.2% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=64, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=3, num_warps=4
  triton_mm_141 0.0307 ms 70.0% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=64, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=5, num_warps=4
  triton_mm_153 0.0307 ms 70.0% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=64, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=4, num_warps=4
  triton_mm_139 0.0328 ms 65.6% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=16, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=32, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=1, num_warps=2
  triton_mm_146 0.0338 ms 63.6% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=64, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=64, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=3, num_warps=4
  triton_mm_145 0.0369 ms 58.3% ACC_TYPE='tl.float32', ALLOW_TF32=False, BLOCK_K=32, BLOCK_M=16, BLOCK_N=64, EVEN_K=True, GROUP_M=8, num_stages=2, num_warps=4
  addmm 0.0378 ms 56.9%
SingleProcess AUTOTUNE benchmarking takes 0.5024 seconds and 0.0002 seconds precompiling for 18 choices

The result of aoti_compile_and_package() is an artifact “resnet18.pt2” which can be loaded and executed in Python and C++.

The artifact itself contains a bunch of AOTInductor generated code, such as a generated C++ runner file, a shared library compiled from the C++ file, and CUDA binary files, aka cubin files, if optimizing for CUDA.

Structure-wise, the artifact is a structured .zip file, with the following specification:

We can use the following command to inspect the artifact contents:

$ unzip -l resnet18.pt2

Archive:  resnet18.pt2
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        1  01-08-2025 16:40   version
        3  01-08-2025 16:40   archive_format
    10088  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/cagzt6akdaczvxwtbvqe34otfe5jlorktbqlojbzqjqvbfsjlge4.cubin
    17160  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/c6oytfjmt5w4c7onvtm6fray7clirxt7q5xjbwx3hdydclmwoujz.cubin
    16616  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/c7ydp7nocyz323hij4tmlf2kcedmwlyg6r57gaqzcsy3huneamu6.cubin
    17776  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/cyqdf46ordevqhiddvpdpp3uzwatfbzdpl3auj2nx23uxvplnne2.cubin
    10856  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/cpzfebfgrusqslui7fxsuoo4tvwulmrxirc5tmrpa4mvrbdno7kn.cubin
    14608  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/c5ukeoz5wmaszd7vczdz2qhtt6n7tdbl3b6wuy4rb2se24fjwfoy.cubin
    11376  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/csu3nstcp56tsjfycygaqsewpu64l5s6zavvz7537cm4s4cv2k3r.cubin
    10984  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/cp76lez4glmgq7gedf2u25zvvv6rksv5lav4q22dibd2zicbgwj3.cubin
    14736  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/c2bb5p6tnwz4elgujqelsrp3unvkgsyiv7xqxmpvuxcm4jfl7pc2.cubin
    11376  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/c6eopmb2b4ngodwsayae4r5q6ni3jlfogfbdk3ypg56tgpzhubfy.cubin
    11624  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/chmwe6lvoekzfowdbiizitm3haiiuad5kdm6sd2m6mv6dkn2zk32.cubin
    15632  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/c3jop5g344hj3ztsu4qm6ibxyaaerlhkzh2e6emak23rxfje6jam.cubin
    25472  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/chaiixybeiuuitm2nmqnxzijzwgnn2n7uuss4qmsupgblfh3h5hk.cubin
   139389  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/cvk6qzuybruhwxtfblzxiov3rlrziv5fkqc4mdhbmantfu3lmd6t.cpp
       27  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/cvk6qzuybruhwxtfblzxiov3rlrziv5fkqc4mdhbmantfu3lmd6t_metadata.json
 47195424  01-08-2025 16:40   data/aotinductor/model/cvk6qzuybruhwxtfblzxiov3rlrziv5fkqc4mdhbmantfu3lmd6t.so
---------                     -------
 47523148                     18 files

Model Inference in Python

To load and run the artifact in Python, we can use torch._inductor.aoti_load_package().

import os
import torch
import torch._inductor

model_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "resnet18.pt2")

compiled_model = torch._inductor.aoti_load_package(model_path)
example_inputs = (torch.randn(2, 3, 224, 224, device=device),)

with torch.inference_mode():
    output = compiled_model(example_inputs)

When to use AOTInductor with a Python Runtime

There are mainly two reasons why one would use AOTInductor with a Python Runtime:

• torch._inductor.aoti_compile_and_package generates a singular serialized artifact. This is useful for model versioning for deployments and tracking model performance over time.

• With torch.compile() being a JIT compiler, there is a warmup cost associated with the first compilation. Your deployment needs to account for the compilation time taken for the first inference. With AOTInductor, the compilation is done ahead of time using torch.export.export and torch._inductor.aoti_compile_and_package. At deployment time, after loading the model, running inference does not have any additional cost.

The section below shows the speedup achieved with AOTInductor for first inference

We define a utility function timed to measure the time taken for inference

import time
def timed(fn):
    # Returns the result of running `fn()` and the time it took for `fn()` to run,
    # in seconds. We use CUDA events and synchronization for accurate
    # measurement on CUDA enabled devices.
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        start = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True)
        end = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True)
        start.record()
    else:
        start = time.time()

    result = fn()
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        end.record()
        torch.cuda.synchronize()
    else:
        end = time.time()

    # Measure time taken to execute the function in miliseconds
    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        duration = start.elapsed_time(end)
    else:
        duration = (end - start) * 1000

    return result, duration

Lets measure the time for first inference using AOTInductor

torch._dynamo.reset()

model = torch._inductor.aoti_load_package(model_path)
example_inputs = (torch.randn(1, 3, 224, 224, device=device),)

with torch.inference_mode():
    _, time_taken = timed(lambda: model(example_inputs))
    print(f"Time taken for first inference for AOTInductor is {time_taken:.2f} ms")

Time taken for first inference for AOTInductor is 3.34 ms

Lets measure the time for first inference using torch.compile

torch._dynamo.reset()

model = resnet18(weights=ResNet18_Weights.DEFAULT).to(device)
model.eval()

model = torch.compile(model)
example_inputs = torch.randn(1, 3, 224, 224, device=device)

with torch.inference_mode():
    _, time_taken = timed(lambda: model(example_inputs))
    print(f"Time taken for first inference for torch.compile is {time_taken:.2f} ms")

Time taken for first inference for torch.compile is 4638.56 ms

We see that there is a drastic speedup in first inference time using AOTInductor compared to torch.compile

Conclusion

In this recipe, we have learned how to effectively use the AOTInductor for Python runtime by compiling and loading a pretrained ResNet18 model. This process demonstrates the practical application of generating a compiled artifact and running it within a Python environment. We also looked at the advantage of using AOTInductor in model deployments, with regards to speed up in first inference time.