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Trading Compute for Memory: Using Activation Recomputation with GPT2

One of the most obvious patterns that we can notice when running training on transformers is that activations take up the most memory:

Jun 20 •

Ganesh Ravichandran

Building Deep Learning Intuition on a consumer GPU: Memory Profiling GPT-2 Training

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Jun 11 •

Ganesh Ravichandran

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