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Is the field of machine learning really stable enough to warrant an ASIC? Seems to me a set of new techniques is released every year now. The lead-time on ASI
by fpgaminer 11y ago
Is the field of machine learning really stable enough to warrant an ASIC? Seems to me a set of new techniques is released every year now. The lead-time on ASICs is ~1 year. So I don't see how a Deep Learning ASIC could keep pace.
- modeless 11y agoNew training techniques are released on a monthly basis, but the basic structure of convolutional neural nets has actually been around since the '90s and hasn't materially changed. I think that's a stable enough target to build an ASIC for. Even if you're unable to implement the year's hottest training technique for some reason, if you're 10x bigger/faster you'll likely still set world records using last year's techniques.