Baidu’s Parallel Evoformer and Branch Parallelism Strategy Accelerates AlphaFold2 Training by 38.67% | Synced

In the new paper Efficient AlphaFold2 Training using Parallel Evoformer and Branch Parallelism, a Baidu research team presents a Parallel Evoformer and Branch Parallelism approach for efficient AlphaFold2 training. The novel strategy improves AlphaFold2 training speed by up to 38.67 percent without sacrificing performance.