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The Toronto ML Systems Group: Transformer Accounting

OCT21
18:00

About this event

Come hang out with The Toronto ML Systems Group for an evening on Transformer Accounting. Here, we intend to build a deep intuition around transformer math and what parameters cost in data, compute, memory, and GPU time.

This is the fifth session of The Toronto ML Systems Group , a recurring meetup for people who are new to or working in ML Systems and want to get serious about the full stack: chips, compilers, kernels, model architectures, distributed training, inference optimization, and everything in between.
Relevant resources: jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/transformers/
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⏱️ Schedule
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Check-in, Food, and networking
6:30 PM - 7:15 PM Lecture: Transformer Accounting, Speaker: Shashank Shekhar
7:15 PM - 7:30 PM Discussion
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Networking and wrap-up
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