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Gradient Accumulation

A technique that simulates larger batch sizes by accumulating gradients over multiple forward passes before updating weights.

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A technique that simulates larger batch sizes by accumulating gradients over multiple forward passes before updating weights. Lets you train with effectively larger batches when GPU memory is limited. You get the stability benefits of large batches without needing the VRAM to hold all examples at once.

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