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Amateur ML researcher seeks GPU cost optimization for drug repurposing project

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An amateur ML researcher is seeking advice on optimizing GPU costs for a personal drug repurposing project. The researcher is using Google Vertex AI with A100 GPUs for training NBFnets on biomedical graphs, but is encountering high costs and memory limitations that force smaller batch sizes than reported in a key paper. They are asking the machine learning community for guidance on determining sufficient training duration, cost-effective alternatives to on-demand cloud GPUs, and potential memory optimization techniques. AI

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Amateur ML researcher seeks GPU cost optimization for drug repurposing project

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/whafa ·

    ML on a shoestring? [D]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi, ML people of Reddit! I have come to ask for some human advice. I am an amateur (as in unpaid) ML researcher working on a personal project to find drug repurposing candidates for my wife, who was Dxed with Stage 4 colon cancer in early 2024. T…

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