Equation 8 · Part 1 · A History of Small and On-Device AI
Symbol α
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α is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…out to roughly an eighth to a ninth of the original computation, for what the paper reports as a small accuracy cost [ 1 ] . MobileNet then added two further dials rather than shipping one fixed shape: a width multiplier that uniformly thins the number of channels at every layer, and a resolution multiplier that shrinks the input image, letting a developer choose a point on an accuracy-versus-latency curve instead of accepting whatever a single published checkpoint offered [ 1 ] . That is the detail worth…
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