Simon Willison’s Weblog

Subscribe

Quotations tagged generativeai, performance

Filters: Type: quotation × generativeai × performance × Sorted by date


The most dramatic optimization to nanoGPT so far (~25% speedup) is to simply increase vocab size from 50257 to 50304 (nearest multiple of 64). This calculates added useless dimensions but goes down a different kernel path with much higher occupancy. Careful with your Powers of 2.

Andrej Karpathy # 4th February 2023, 12:08 am

Types

Years

Tags