Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
by nicklovescode on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:57PM
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Anyone know why they trained on TPUs? My understanding is that the main benefit of a TPU is inference. Is this not true?
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Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
by postnihilism on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:03PM
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The first generation TPUs were focused on inference. Second generation TPUs are focused on both training and inference.
https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-off...