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BF16 (Brain Floating Point 16) is a 16-bit floating-point format that retains an 8-bit exponent (the same as FP32) but has only a 7-bit mantissa, thus offering a large dynamic range but low precision.
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Partially VerifiedBF16 is a 16-bit floating-point format introduced by Google that has a wider exponent range compared to FP16, making it less prone to numerical overflow.79% similarVerifiedBF16 was originally designed by the Google Brain team for TPUs, retaining the same 8-bit exponent as FP32 while reducing the mantissa from 23 bits to 7 bits.74% similarUnverifiedFP32 uses 32 bits to represent floating-point numbers, consisting of 1 sign bit, 8 exponent bits, and 23 mantissa bits.71% similarUnverifiedFP16使用16位存储数值（1位符号位、5位指数位、10位尾数位），可表示约65000个离散值67% similar
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