Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are a class of generative models that can learn to encode and decode data, typically images, to and from a latent space representation. The precision of the arithmetic operations used in training and inference of VAEs, such as FP16 (16-bit floating point) and FP32 (32-bit floating point), significantly affects their performance, efficiency, and output quality. Here’s what you need to know about VAE precision in the context of FP16 vs. FP32:
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