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FP16

Aug 12, 2025

FP16 is 16-bit floating point formats, with IEEE 754 half precision:

  • 1 sign bit, 5 exponent bits, 10 mantissa bits
  • Higher precison, smaller range
  • Range: ~6e-8 to 65504
  • More prone to overflow/underflow in deep learning