Equation 12 · Part 1 · A History of Small and On-Device AI
Symbol T
What this part means
T is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
T is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol T→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
where are the teacher’s pre-softmax logits. “Using a higher value for T produces a softer probability distribution over classes” [ 4 ] , and it is precisely that softness — the relative probabilities the teacher assigns to the wrong answers, not only the single correct label — that carries information a hard label discards: how confidently a teacher model preferred…
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