Cost and speed
Beyond Prompting: How Algorithmic Evolution Doubled our Training Speed
Our short summary of Klarna’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.
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Training large models took too long, slowing down product updates and increasing expenses.
Solution
They used an evolutionary code optimizer to automatically rewrite training code, testing thousands of variants and keeping the fastest, which doubled training speed.
Training speed doubled
Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.
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