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Mixed-precision training with FP32 master weights and loss scaling

Combined FP16 storage/computation, FP32 master updates and loss scaling to train tested neural networks with reduced activation bandwidth and memory while recovering higher-precision baselines.

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Combined FP16 storage/computation, FP32 master updates and loss scaling to train tested neural networks with reduced activation bandwidth and memory while recovering higher-precision baselines.

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Scaling must avoid overflow and gradients are unscaled before updates or clipping. FP32 updates/accumulation remain; reduced storage does not mean every operation or model trains entirely in FP16. Reported accuracy/resource outcomes are task- and implementation-specific.

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Sharan Narang; Gregory Diamos; Erich Elsen; Paulius Micikevicius; Jonah Alben; David Garcia; Boris Ginsburg; Michael Houston; Oleksii Kuchaev; Ganesh Venkatesh; Hao Wu

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Mixed-precision training with FP32 master weights and loss scaling

Combined FP16 storage/computation, FP32 master updates and loss scaling to train tested neural networks with reduced activation bandwidth and memory while recovering higher-precision baselines.

Scientific scope

Scaling must avoid overflow and gradients are unscaled before updates or clipping. FP32 updates/accumulation remain; reduced storage does not mean every operation or model trains entirely in FP16. Reported accuracy/resource outcomes are task- and implementation-specific.

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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.

People and systems

Sharan Narang; Gregory Diamos; Erich Elsen; Paulius Micikevicius; Jonah Alben; David Garcia; Boris Ginsburg; Michael Houston; Oleksii Kuchaev; Ganesh Venkatesh; Hao Wu

Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.

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