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Gradient Accumulation

Gradient Accumulation

Feb 10, 20261 min read

  • deep-learning
  • distributed-training
  • gradient-accumulation

Gradient Accumulation

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Simulate larger batch sizes by accumulating gradients over multiple forward/backward passes before performing a weight update. Enables effective large-batch training on limited GPU memory.

Related

  • Data Parallelism (alternative way to increase effective batch size)
  • Mixed Precision Training (complementary memory optimization)

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