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The size of the sample group given to the model at the same time during the training.
The choice of stack size directly affects training dynamics: small stacks (e.g. 8 or 32 examples) provide more noise in each step but more often gradient updates, which can sometimes help the model achieve better generalizing solutions; also requires less memory. Large stacks (e.g. 512 or 1024 sample) make gradyan forecast more stable and less noise, allowing GPUs to be used more efficiently than parallel processing power, but much more memory consumes and sometimes can negatively affect overallization performance. The huge stack size used in the education of large language models makes thousands of GPUs necessary distributed training systems.
