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FLOPs

Also called floating-point operations

What does “FLOPs” mean?

FLOPs: Counting floating-point operations, meaning arithmetic on decimal numbers, is a standard way to measure computing work. Total FLOPs describes how much computation a training run used. FLOPS with a capital S usually means operations per second, a measure of a chip's speed.

FLOPs visual guide: Counting floating-point operations, meaning arithmetic on decimal numbers, is a standard way to measure computing work. Total FLOPs describes how much computation a training run used. FLOPS with a capital S usually means operations per second, a measure of a chip's speed.
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What is an example of “FLOPs”?

Researchers compare models by their training compute in FLOPs, and some AI regulations use compute thresholds to decide which models face extra rules.

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