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Remove apex dependency after PyTorch 2.0?

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#617 opened on Jan 24, 2023

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This is to look into whether or not we still need to use apex for speedups if out-of-the-box PyTorch 2.0 may "just work". Will require benchmarking at a few different scales to confirm.

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Research direction
Benchmark model performance with and without apex at different scales to determine if PyTorch 2.0 native optimizations make apex unnecessary.
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pythonpytorch
Domain
machine learningperformance
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Mostly clear
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