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Notes on Floating Point Precisions in Deep Learning Computations
ECCV 2020 Tutorial on Accelerating Computer Vision with Mixed Precision
https://nvlabs.github.io/eccv2020-mixed-precision-tutorial/
Topics of the tutorial:
- Training Neural Networks with Tensor Cores
- PyTorch Performance Tuning Guide
- Mixed Precision Training for Conditional GANs
- Mixed Precision Training for FAZE: Few-shot Adaptive Gaze Estimation
- Mixed Precision Training for Video Synthesis
- Mixed Precision Training for Convolutional Tensor-Train LSTM
- Mixed Precision Training for 3D Medical Image Analysis
Has PDF of the slides and the videos.
Q&A:
What's the difference between FP32 and TF32 modes? FP32 cores perform scalar instructions. TF32 is a Tensor Core mode, which performs matrix instructions - they are 8-16x faster and more energy efficient. Both take FP32 as inputs. TF32 mode also rounds those inputs to TF32.