What is a compute?
(Noun) The computational resources used by a model or system, such as processing power, memory, and storage.
compute explained in plain English
(Noun) The computational resources used by a model or system, such as processing power, memory, and storage. See accelerator chips.
Example
Practitioners refer to compute when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.
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A category of specialized hardware components designed to perform key computations needed for deep learning algorithms.
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The process of inferring predictions on multiple unlabeled examples divided into smaller subsets ("batches").
- checkpoint
Data that captures the state of a model's parameters either during training or after training is completed.
- perceptron
A system (either hardware or software) that takes in one or more input values, runs a function on the weighted sum of the inputs, and computes a single output value.
- pure function
A function whose outputs are based only on its inputs, and that has no side effects.
- quantization
Overloaded term that could be used in any of the following ways: Reducing the number of bits used to store a model's parameters.
- shard
A logical division of the training set or the model.
- compact model
Any small model designed to run on small devices with limited computational resources.
- graph
In TensorFlow, a computation specification.
- natural language processing
The field of teaching computers to process what a user said or typed using linguistic rules.