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Accelerate Model Training with PyTorch 2.X
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Accelerate Model Training with PyTorch 2.X

by Maicon Melo Alves
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
230 pages
5h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adopting Mixed Precision

Scientific computing is a tool that’s used by scientists to push the limits of the known. Biology, physics, chemistry, and cosmology are examples of areas that rely on scientific computing to simulate and model the real world. In these fields of knowledge, numeric precision is paramount to yield coherent results. Since each decimal place matters in this case, scientific computing usually adopts double-precision data types to represent numbers with the highest possible precision.

However, that need for extra information comes with a price. The higher the numeric precision, the higher the computing power required to process those numbers. Besides that, higher precision also demands a higher memory space, increasing ...

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