python/memory/measurments/act-mem-2/README.md

Activation Memory: Part 2

Code accompanying the deep-dive blog post on activation memory.

• The main utility code is in act_mem.py.
• Basic transformer layers are implemented in layers.py.
• The scripts {block,mlp}_script.py demonstrate how replacing GELU with ReLU affects activation memory.
• attn_script.py shows the cost of activation memory in the attention layer.
• Tests of the code are in test.py.
• See requirements.txt for versions the code was built against.

Contributors

• Garrett Goon