Most deep learning frameworks, including PyTorch, train with 32-bit floating point (FP32) arithmetic by default. However this is not essential to achieve full accuracy for many deep learning models. In 2017, NVIDIA researchers developed a methodology for mixed-precision training, which combined single-precision (FP32) with half-precision (e.g. FP16) format when training a network, and achieved the same accuracy as FP32 training using the same hyperparameters, with additional performance be...| pytorch.org
BigScience is an ongoing collaborative open science initiative, where a large number of researchers from all over the world work together to train a large language model. Being conscious about LLMs’ capabilities and promoting responsible development and use of the latter, we designed a Responsible AI License (“RAIL”) for the use (in the broadest sense of the word) of the model. Such a license effectively imposes behavioral-use terms on the use of the model.| bigscience.huggingface.co