Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

Overview

So, you want to improve the performance of your deep learning model. How might you approach such a task? Often, folk fall back to a grab-bag of tricks that might've worked before or saw on a tweet. "Use in-place operations! Set gradients to None! Install PyTorch 1.10.0 but not 1.10.1!" It's understandable why users often take such an ad-hoc approach performance on modern systems (particularly deep...

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