Facebook’s new technique trains computer vision models super-fast

Facebook has figured out a new way to train computer vision models that will massively accelerate the company’s work with artificial intelligence. Using the new technique, the company can train an image classification model in an hour while maintaining its accuracy.
At peak performance, the new system Facebook laid out in a paper today can train 40,000 images per second using 256 GPUs, without sacrificing the quality of the resulting model. It’s an achievement that should help improv