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Re:Show HN: Exafunction NLP – Run models like GPT-J for 6x c... by ajaysaini235 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:11PM (#28686268)
Wow this is really cool! How did you guys get such big speedups?
Re:Show HN: Exafunction NLP – Run models like GPT-J for 6x c... by varunkmohan on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @03:32PM (#28686502)
There's some secret sauce behind it, but mostly just using relatively inexpensive cloud inference hardware very effectively. It turns out most of the common NLP frameworks leave a good deal of performance on the table, not to mention the importance of minimizing cloud costs through general methods like using spot instances.