bfloat16 is probably familiar only to ML practitioners; it's a reduced precision floating point format designed for ML models. I was surprised to learn that the "b" stands for "brain", as in the team at google that developed it along with many other advances in machine learning.
bfloat16 is probably familiar only to ML practitioners; it's a reduced precision floating point format designed for ML models. I was surprised to learn that the "b" stands for "brain", as in the team at google that developed it along with many other advances in machine learning.