Questions tagged [finite-precision]

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Why is finite precision a problem in machine learning?

Can you explain what is finite precision? Why is finite precision a problem in machine learning?
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FP16, FP32 - what is it all about? or is it just Bitsize for Float-Values (Python)

What is it all about FP16, FP32 in Python? My potential Business Partner and I are building a Deep Learning Setup for working with time series. He came up with "FP16 and FP32" while finding a GPU. It looks like he's talking about Floating Point…
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Keras custom metrics - MAP and MRR

I am trying to build a LSTM model in keras where I have one question with 10 answers but only ONE among them is correct. So basically im tring to build a 10 class classification problem. As most of the research papers are using Mean average…
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Truncating float/doubles for reproducibility

I deploy machine learning models (typically GPU) to a variety of environments. I work sort of at the edge of ML R&D and devops, so I am really big into reproducibility, and one thing that drives me nuts is when models output similar but not…
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Low Precision of LeakyReLU

Dear TensorFlow experts, I am trying to understand the following output of the TensorFlow LeakyReLU function, which seems to have very low precision: import tensorflow as tf tf.keras.backend.set_floatx('float64') import numpy as…