description: Explore how to achieve exceptional AI performance with DeepSparse's incredible inference speed. Discover how to deploy YOLOv5, and learn about model sparsification and fine-tuning with SparseML.
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Welcome to software-delivered AI.
This guide explains how to deploy YOLOv5 with Neural Magic's DeepSparse.
DeepSparse is an inference runtime with exceptional performance on CPUs. For instance, compared to the ONNX Runtime baseline, DeepSparse offers a 5.8x speed-up for YOLOv5s, running on the same machine!
For the first time, your deep learning workloads can meet the performance demands of production without the complexity and costs of hardware accelerators.
Put simply, DeepSparse gives you the performance of GPUs and the simplicity of software:
Sparsification through pruning and quantization is a broadly studied technique, allowing order-of-magnitude reductions in the size and compute needed to
execute a network, while maintaining high accuracy. DeepSparse is sparsity-aware, meaning it skips the zeroed out parameters, shrinking amount of compute
in a forward pass. Since the sparse computation is now memory bound, DeepSparse executes the network depth-wise, breaking the problem into Tensor Columns,
Sparse networks with compressed computation, executed depth-wise in cache, allows DeepSparse to deliver GPU-class performance on CPUs!
### How Do I Create A Sparse Version of YOLOv5 Trained on My Data?
Neural Magic's open-source model repository, SparseZoo, contains pre-sparsified checkpoints of each YOLOv5 model. Using SparseML, which is integrated with Ultralytics, you can fine-tune a sparse checkpoint onto your data with a single CLI command.
[Checkout Neural Magic's YOLOv5 documentation for more details](https://docs.neuralmagic.com/use-cases/object-detection/sparsifying).
## DeepSparse Usage
We will walk through an example benchmarking and deploying a sparse version of YOLOv5s with DeepSparse.
### Install DeepSparse
Run the following to install DeepSparse. We recommend you use a virtual environment with Python.
DeepSparse Server runs on top of the popular FastAPI web framework and Uvicorn web server. With just a single CLI command, you can easily setup a model
service endpoint with DeepSparse. The Server supports any Pipeline from DeepSparse, including object detection with YOLOv5, enabling you to send raw
