How do you use FP16 half-precision training with PyTorch to reduce memory usage for large models

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Can you explain how you can use FP16 (half-precision) training with PyTorch to reduce memory usage for large models with the help of Python programming?
Nov 18 in Generative AI by Ashutosh
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You can use FP16 half-precision training with PyTorch to reduce memory usage for large models. Here’s how to use FP16 half-precision training with PyTorch to reduce memory usage for large models by using torch.cuda.amp (Recommended for Automatic Mixed Precision). A code snippet below shows how to do it.

In the above code we are using torch.cuda.amp.autocast() to ensures computations run in FP16 where possible for performance gains, GradScaler to dynamically scales gradients to prevent underflow during FP16 training and Memory Savings so that  FP16 reduces memory usage by 2x for model weights and activations.

This approach is optimal for large models and can be combined with techniques like gradient checkpointing for further memory efficiency.

Hence, this approach allows you to use FP16 half-precision training with PyTorch to reduce memory usage for large models.

answered Nov 18 by anila k

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