[refibrillator]

Ha made me chuckle. For those wondering seriously about this, it’s not a viable optimization because weights are not readily compressible via JPEG/DCT, and there are a limited number of these units on the chip which bottlenecks throughout, meaning speed is dwarfed by simply reading uncompressed weights from HBM.

[jhoho]

It seems like this is indeed possible using video codecs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00467v1

[touisteur]

Good fun. Now I wish RT cores would be programmable with some form of PTX, but for now it's Optix or die. Managed to do fun stuff with it but it's like pulling teeth.

[moralestapia]

Yeah, but they could be.

I won an GPU hackathon back in 2019 doing something very similar to this; although the other way around, I was compressing weights using hardware modules.

[heavyset_go]

Have a link to this?

[moralestapia]

Unfortunately no. I have cool picture, though!

[heavyset_go]

I will have to settle for a picture then :)

[moralestapia]

Send email (see profile), I'll gladly share more details ^^.