Equation 17 · Part 4 · AI Memory Systems and the Bandwidth Wall in 2035: Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
Peer-reviewed evidence, three different levers. DeepSeek-V2 replaces full multi-head keys and values with a low-rank latent projection — reducing to a much smaller compressed dimension — and reports a 93.3 percent reduction in KV-cache size relative to the company’s own prior 67-billion-parameter dense model, while extending supported context to 128,000 tokens [ 15 ] . That shrinks the per-token cost of the equation above. StreamingLLM instead shrinks effective S : it keeps only a small window of recent tokens plus a handful of initial “attention sink” tokens, and reports enabling stable generation over sequences up to four million tokens with up to a 22.2-times…
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [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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