Title
Moving Deep Learning into Web Browser: How Far Can We Go?
Abstract
Recently, several JavaScript-based deep learning frameworks have emerged, making it possible to perform deep learning tasks directly in browsers. However, little is known on what and how well we can do with these frameworks for deep learning in browsers. To bridge the knowledge gap, in this paper, we conduct the first empirical study of deep learning in browsers. We survey 7 most popular JavaScript-based deep learning frameworks, investigating to what extent deep learning tasks have been supported in browsers so far. Then we measure the performance of different frameworks when running different deep learning tasks. Finally, we dig out the performance gap between deep learning in browsers and on native platforms by comparing the performance of TensorFlow.js and TensorFlow in Python. Our findings could help application developers, deep-learning framework vendors and browser vendors to improve the efficiency of deep learning in browsers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3308558.3313639
WWW '19: The Web Conference on The World Wide Web Conference WWW 2019
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Deep learning, Measurement, Web applications, Web browser
Journal
abs/1901.09388
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6674-8
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yun Ma121620.25
Dongwei Xiang210.35
Shuyu Zheng330.70
Deyu Tian421.03
xuanzhe liu516713.94