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Data Efficiency in Pretraining: Packing, Batching, and What Gets Wasted
Up to 30% of GPU compute can vanish into padding tokens that contribute nothing to learning. Here's how modern pretraining pipelines eliminate that waste.
Up to 30% of GPU compute can vanish into padding tokens that contribute nothing to learning. Here's how modern pretraining pipelines eliminate that waste.