Add --precision flag for reduced-precision inference#79
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Selectively casts heavy encoder/backbone modules (monodepth_model, feature_model) to bfloat16 or float16 while keeping lightweight heads in float32 for numerical stability. Achieves ~2x inference speedup on MPS with bfloat16. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Selectively casts heavy encoder/backbone modules (monodepth_model, feature_model) to bfloat16 or float16 while keeping lightweight heads in float32 for numerical stability. Achieves ~2x inference speedup on MPS with bfloat16.
Summary
--precisionflag tosharp predictacceptingfloat32(default),bfloat16, andfloat16monodepth_model,feature_model) are cast to reduced precision; lightweight heads remain in float32 for numerical stabilityTest plan
sharp predictwithout--precisionflag and verify output is unchanged (float32 default)sharp predict --precision bfloat16and verify Gaussians are produced without errorssharp predict --precision float16and verify Gaussians are produced without errors