From 240333fcf130ada7e0c5e13e703ca94702bdb4c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shriya Palsamudram Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:42:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add requirement to support checkpointing in reference --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 8934741..ba2f761 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ MLCommons project work is tracked with issue trackers and pull requests. Modify 7. Support for mixed precision training w/ [AMP](https://developer.nvidia.com/automatic-mixed-precision) is optional, but encouraged. + 8. Reference implementation should have support for checkpointing to support writing a partially trained checkpoint, reloading and restarting from such previously saved checkpoint. + a. Required for reference models developed after v4.1. + b. Optional (but encouraged) for benchmarks developed before v4.1. + ### Data 1. Justification for setting target accuracy must be provided.