Equation 11 · Part 1 · AI Memory Systems and the Bandwidth Wall in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
Symbol b
What this part means
the raising batch size raises.
Its job in the formula
b 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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Where the article explains it
Raising batch size raises b in the capacity equation directly; every request added to a batch adds its own cache, and past some point the node runs out of room for cache before it runs out of arithmetic.
The passage around this formula
The two terms interact because the KV cache and the batch draw on the same pool. Raising batch size raises b in the capacity equation directly; every request added to a batch adds its own cache, and past some point the node runs out of room for cache before it runs out of arithmetic. Multi-query and grouped-query attention relieve this by shrinking H , the number of distinct key-value heads a token’s cache must store — Pope and colleagues report that the resulting smaller footprint enables scaling to context lengths up to 32 times longer at fixed memory [ 7 ] , and the same shrinkage buys headroom for a larger batch instead, if that is the more valuable trade for a given service.
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