What is a tower?

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In many tensorflow tutorials (example) "towers" are mentioned without a definition. What is meant by that?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '17 at 09:30

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According to tensorflow documentation about CNN,

The first abstraction we require is a function for computing inference and gradients for a single model replica. In the code we term this abstraction a "tower".

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answered Jan 17 '17 at 09:30

Hima Varsha

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The linked page does not mention "tower" anymore :/ – aviator Apr 07 '20 at 15:17
To keep it simple, a "Tower" is a copy of your model. In a multi-GPU case, if you have 8 GPUs, then you will get 8 Towers. – Begoodpy Jul 26 '20 at 13:13

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 03 '21 at 00:12

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I found the following definition from ML glossary here intuitive:

Tower - A component of a deep neural network that is itself a deep neural network without an output layer.

answered Nov 03 '21 at 00:12

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What is a tower?

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