The bfloat16 format is a 16-bit floating-point representation, designed to provide a wide dynamic range by using a floating radix point. It is a shortened version of the 32-bit IEEE 754 single-precision format (binary32), aimed at accelerating machine learning.
The structure of the bfloat16 floating-point format is as follows.
Quiz 1 Problem B:
┌ sign
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│ ┌ exponent
│ │
│ │ ┌ mantissa