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TransformerEngine

A library for accelerating Transformer models on NVIDIA GPUs, including using 8-bit and 4-bit floating point (FP8 and FP4) precision on Hopper, Ada and Blackwell GPUs, to provide better performance with lower memory utilization in both training and inference.

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Speed up the training of AI models on NVIDIA graphics cards while using less memory.

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A library for accelerating Transformer models on NVIDIA GPUs, including using 8-bit and 4-bit floating point (FP8 and FP4) precision on Hopper, Ada and Blackwell GPUs, to provide better performance with lower memory utilization in both training and inference.

TransformerEngine has 3.4k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 774 times. TransformerEngine is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2022. TransformerEngine is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are cuda, deep-learning, fp4, fp8.

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What is TransformerEngine?

A library for accelerating Transformer models on NVIDIA GPUs, including using 8-bit and 4-bit floating point (FP8 and FP4) precision on Hopper, Ada and Blackwell GPUs, to provide better performance with lower memory utilization in both training and inference.

Is TransformerEngine open source?

TransformerEngine is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is TransformerEngine free?

Yes. TransformerEngine is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does TransformerEngine use?

TransformerEngine is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is TransformerEngine written in?

TransformerEngine is written mainly in Python.

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