deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

BF16 Support

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Since Jan 2, 2024.

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Are there any plans to support bf16 training in deepspeed in the near future?
If not - could someone guide me toward what I would need to change in order to implement it? It seems like a fair few things in deepspeed are dependent on fp16 to a large degree.

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