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Cross-entropy loss · vocab = 65536 · tokens = 16384 · fp32 · run 01a016ac-d46f…
●passedReported evidence
Not re-observed recently.
Primary measurement
10.6msmedian
Rank 2 in its comparison group · source-native comparison · observed 2024-09-03
ms 20 10.607129096984863 · ms 50 10.615103721618652 · ms 80 10.61723518371582
Identity
implementationTransformers
projectHugging Face Transformers
revisionunknown
workloadvocab = 65536 · tokens = 16384 · fp32
comparison keysha256:bf14be3f11fb0dda…
sourceLiger-Kernel benchmarks
external idcross_entropy/forward/huggingface/nvidia-a100-sxm4-80gb/tokens16384-vocab65536-fp32/2024-09-03-15-31-40
sha256:e7a7aaf846dc2f61183a485…
Correctness
Marked passed by the source; the correctness policy was not published.
Workload
vocab65536
tokens16384
logitsfp32 [16384, 65536]
targetint64 [16384]
definition comparatornot_asserted
Measurements
latency · median10.6 ms
latency · p2010.6 ms
latency · p8010.6 ms
Protocol
harnessLiger-Kernel benchmark scripts
timercuda_events
primaryStatisticmedian
comparabilityFamilyliger_kernel_bench
Environment
gpuNVIDIA A100 (sm_80)
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