Equation 14 · Part 2 · Dense, Sparse, and Distilled: Comparing Approaches to Frontier Model Capacity
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.
Full expression→subscript→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
The economics are attractive and frequently overstated. Training compute scales with , not N , so a sparse model can hold far more knowledge for the same training FLOPs. Patterson and colleagues, computing energy and carbon for several large models including Switch Transformer and GPT-3, found that large but sparsely activated networks can consume less than one tenth the energy of large dense networks without sacrificing accuracy [ 10 ] .
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.
Open the illustrated subscripts: which member of a family? guide →
Sources cited in the surrounding passage
These citations provide research context; check each source for the exact claim it supports.