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Gradient Accumulation

Model Training · Level 2 of 5

Gradient Accumulation

Summing or averaging gradients over several smaller batches before updating parameters.

It can approximate a larger effective batch with less activation memory.

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Four microbatches contribute to one optimizer step.

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Gradient Accumulation. Summing or averaging gradients over several smaller batches before updating parameters. It can approximate a larger effective batch with less activation memory. For example: Four microbatches contribute to one optimizer step.

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