At the time of writing, DenseNet is implemented in this benchmark with what is described as the "naive" implementation in Memory-Efficient Implementation of DenseNets. This will under perform compared to the ideal implementation because recursive tf.concat will lead to excessive memory usage.
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At the time of writing, DenseNet is implemented in this benchmark with what is described as the "naive" implementation in Memory-Efficient Implementation of DenseNets. This will under perform compared to the ideal implementation because recursive
tf.concat
will lead to excessive memory usage.Details are in the upstream tf issuse https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/12948.