#13856: update gelu_bw op documentation on bfloat8_b limitations #17407
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Ticket
Link to Github Issue #13856
Problem description
Since gelu_bw ops uses
ttnn::exp
in its implementation, beyond a certain input range the output is very a large number and will cause flushing of nearby values.bfloat8_b
is a block format datatype with shared exponent for every 16 consecutive elements.https://docs.tenstorrent.com/tt-metal/latest/ttnn/ttnn/tensor.html#limitation-of-bfloat8-b
For more details: link
What's changed
Updated docs on the limitations of using
bfloat8_b
dtype for thegelu_bw
andbias_gelu_bw
opsChecklist