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NVIDIA presents Mixed Precision Training

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Presented Mixed Precision Training — FP16 training with an FP32 master copy of the weights and loss scaling, cutting memory by about 50%

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The prototype of mixed-precision training. The whole lineage of shrinking precision, FP16→BF16→FP8→FP4, is a variation on these two techniques

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03740

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