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by busymom0 6 days ago
> Silent data corruption (SDC) is the most expensive, where a faulty GPU produces wrong answers without crashing anything, which means a multi-day training run can complete normally and the resulting model weights are quietly poisoned.

Anyone know how these get caught ultimately?

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Usually silent data corruption isn't caught. If a file fails to open you might realize it's been corrupted.