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> For most current models, you need 40+ GB of RAM to train them. Gradient accumulation doesn't work with batch norms so you really need that memory. There's a
by nl 4y ago
> For most current models, you need 40+ GB of RAM to train them. Gradient accumulation doesn't work with batch norms so you really need that memory.
There's a decision tree chart in the article that addresses this - as it points out there are plenty of models that are much smaller than this.
Not everything is a large language model.