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Accelerate Model Training with PyTorch 2.X

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805120100
Pages 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Maicon Melo Alves Maicon Melo Alves
Profile icon Maicon Melo Alves

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface Part 1: Paving the Way
Chapter 1: Deconstructing the Training Process Chapter 2: Training Models Faster Part 2: Going Faster
Chapter 3: Compiling the Model Chapter 4: Using Specialized Libraries Chapter 5: Building an Efficient Data Pipeline Chapter 6: Simplifying the Model Chapter 7: Adopting Mixed Precision Part 3: Going Distributed
Chapter 8: Distributed Training at a Glance Chapter 9: Training with Multiple CPUs Chapter 10: Training with Multiple GPUs Chapter 11: Training with Multiple Machines Index Other Books You May Enjoy

Remembering numeric precision

Before diving into the benefits of adopting a mixed precision strategy, it is essential to ground you on numeric representation and common data types. Let’s start by remembering how computers represent numbers.

How do computers represent numbers?

A computer is a machine – endowed with finite resources – that’s designed to work on bits, the smallest unit of information it can manage. As numbers are infinite, computer designers had to put a lot of effort into finding a solution to represent this theoretical concept in a real machine.

To get the work done, computer designers needed to deal with three key factors regarding numeric representation:

  • Sign: Whether the number is positive or negative
  • Range: The interval of the represented numbers.
  • Precision: The number of decimal places.

Considering these elements, computer architects successfully defined numeric data types to represent not only integer...

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