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[TF32](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tensorfloat-32-precision-format/) could help boost performance on GPU of SM >= 80. Sometime, user observes accuracy loss, or need disable TF32 for testing purpose. To disable TF32, it is also possible to set environment variable `NVIDIA_TF32_OVERRIDE = 0`. However, sometime we do not want to use environment variable to avoid impacting other applications, or want to have finer control (like one session using TF32, and another session not). This provider option could help. Here we add a provider option `use_tf32`. When `use_tf32 = 0`, we will disable TF32 for float MatMul/GEMM in cublas. It applies to MatMulNBits, Attention, LongformerAttention, PackedAttention, PackedMultiHeadAttention operators when float GEMM is used internally in the operator. Note that it will not impact other data type, like fp8 gemm could still use TF32 in accumulation. Previously, cublasGemmStridedBatchedHelper does not use TF32 in inference. Here we enabled TF32 by default, so we might observe speed up for FP32 transformers models on SM >= 80. There is another PR that enables the option for cuDNN Conv later. ### Motivation and Context <!-- - Why is this change required? What problem does it solve? - If it fixes an open issue, please link to the issue here. --> https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/issues/15407 https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/issues/19288 |
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