Equation 14 · Part 1 · Comparing the Main Approaches to AI Memory Systems and the Bandwidth Wall
Symbol L
What this part means
the number of layers.
Its job in the formula
L is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol L→Article meaning
Where the article explains it
with L layers, H key/value heads, head dimension, b bytes per stored element and T tokens of context — a quantity that scales linearly with context length and batch size, and has to be both stored somewhere and streamed through the arithmetic units on every generated token.
The passage around this formula
with L layers, H key/value heads, head dimension, b bytes per stored element and T tokens of context — a quantity that scales linearly with context length and batch size, and has to be both stored somewhere and streamed through the arithmetic units on every generated token. Pope and colleagues…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [11] Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference ↗
- [12] Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention ↗
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