Equation 15 · AI Memory Systems and the Bandwidth Wall in 2035: Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions
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the batch size. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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bytes, the leading factor of two accounting for keys and values together. That equation is worth writing out because it exposes the one real lever every mitigation below actually pulls: none of them escapes linear growth in S and B . Each instead shrinks one of the other factors — most consequentially , the number of key-value heads actually stored.
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- [15] DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model ↗
- [14] Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks ↗
- [16] H2O: Heavy-Hitter Oracle for Efficient Generative Inference of Large Language Models ↗
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