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most citedA Study of BFLOAT16 for Deep Learning Training

66 citations · 92 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.LG20197 cited

High-Performance Deep Learning via a Single Building Block

Evangelos Georganas, Kunal Banerjee, Dhiraj Kalamkar +6

Deep learning (DL) is one of the most prominent branches of machine learning. Due to the immense computational cost of DL workloads, industry and academia have developed DL librari…

cs.LG201966 cited

A Study of BFLOAT16 for Deep Learning Training

Dhiraj Kalamkar, Dheevatsa Mudigere, Naveen Mellempudi +16

This paper presents the first comprehensive empirical study demonstrating the efficacy of the Brain Floating Point (BFLOAT16) half-precision format for Deep Learning training acros…

cs.DC201819 cited

On Scale-out Deep Learning Training for Cloud and HPC

Srinivas Sridharan, Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan, Dhiraj Kalamkar +8

The exponential growth in use of large deep neural networks has accelerated the need for training these deep neural networks in hours or even minutes. This can only be achieved thr…

cs.LG2017

RAIL: Risk-Averse Imitation Learning

Anirban Santara, Abhishek Naik, Balaraman Ravindran +4

Imitation learning algorithms learn viable policies by imitating an expert's behavior when reward signals are not available. Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) is a s…

cs.DC2016

Distributed Deep Learning Using Synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent

Dipankar Das, Sasikanth Avancha, Dheevatsa Mudigere +5

We design and implement a distributed multinode synchronous SGD algorithm, without altering hyper parameters, or compressing data, or altering algorithmic behavior. We perform a de…