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suflaj t1_iqns8dp wrote

To add on what others have said, you would still likely want mini-batches to better track progress. Even if we had infinite memory there is still a limit to how fast you can process information (even at physical extremes), and so you would not be able to do these operations instantly. Unless there were significant drawbacks to using minibatches, you'd probably take over minibatches with seconds or minutes per update over a hanging loop that updates every X hours.

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