Breaking down GPU VRAM consumption

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What factors influence VRAM consumption? How does it vary with different model settings? I dug into the topic and conducted my measurements.
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I’ve always been curious about the GPU VRAM required for training and fine-tuning transformer-based language models. What factors influence VRAM consumption? How does it vary with different model settings? I dug into the topic and conducted my measurements.