Equation 1 · Part 3 · Claude, From First Principles: Training, Constitutional Methods, and What Actually Shapes a Response
Symbol D
What this part means
the number of training tokens, the factor of six accounting for the forward and backward pass together.
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D 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
where N is the parameter count and D is the number of training tokens, the factor of six accounting for the forward and backward pass together.
The passage around this formula
…what any particular operator wants done with it. Two variables set the price of that prior. Pretraining compute for a dense transformer is well approximated by . where N is the parameter count and D is the number of training tokens, the factor of six accounting for the forward and backward pass together. Kaplan and colleagues showed empirically that test loss falls as a power law in each of N , D , and compute across many orders of magnitude, with a functional form that includes an…
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