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What is checkpoint recomputation strategy in deep networks?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Checkpointing trades compute for memory by recomputing activations during backward pass.
Deep explanation
Instead of storing all intermediate activations, only selected checkpoints are saved. During backpropagation, missing activations are recomputed, reducing memory footprint significantly.
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