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01 ·Training & Alignment·★ MEMBER·PAPER·10 min read Mixed Precision Training — Going Faster in fp16/bf16/fp8 Without Breaking Halve the bits and training gets faster — right up until your gradients quietly turn into zeros or infs. We start from the two ways it breaks, work out what loss scaling actually does, why bf16 made it unnecessary, and what came back with fp8. Ends with the PyTorch AMP knobs and the clipping-order mistake that fails silently.