Shall we add half_t support to Random<cpu, DType>

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Shall we add half_t support to Random<cpu, DType>

KiddoZhu opened this issue 7 years ago · 2 comments

Member functions in Random<cpu, DType> are not overload for half_t type. As a result, it fails when we use Random<cpu, half_t> to generate a tensor. This is quite inconvenient for generating noise inside a mxnet operator that is templated by DType.

Shall we add half_t support to Random<cpu, DType>?

Answer 1 · 2017-11-30T08:27:53.000Z

I think Random<gpu, DType> is important too.
It's not supported by curand function in CUDA9. But I support U.

Answer 2 · 2019-08-04T00:50:23.000Z

This code base has been donated to the Apache MXNet project per #373, and repo is deprecated. Future development and issue tracking should continue in Apache MXNet.