The Embedding Table Was 72% of the Model
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An earlier experiment in this series had established something slightly deflating about a small transformer: quantising the whole network to int8 is free, and the bytes you save are better spent on count tables than on network precision. That is a useful result and it invites a sharper question, wh…
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The Embedding Table Was 72% of the Model