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What is tensor broadcasting and how does it work internally?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

Broadcasting expands tensors virtually without copying data.

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Broadcasting aligns tensor shapes by virtually repeating dimensions with stride 0. This avoids memory duplication while allowing elementwise operations between mismatched shapes.

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