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Re:Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac by p1esk on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:35PM (#31424793)
why are people still reporting benchmark results on VGG?

Probably because it makes the hardware look good.

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Re:Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac by 0-_-0 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:34PM (#31425434)
This is the right answer. Efficient networks like EfficientNet are much harder to accelerate in HW.
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Re:Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac by DSingularity on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @05:12PM (#31427734)
No. Because it is a way to compare performance. That’s all. Just convenience.
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