Equation 32 · Part 1 · Dense, Sparse, and Distilled: Comparing Approaches to Frontier Model Capacity
Symbol C_train
What this part means
rain is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
rain 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 C_train→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
with Q requests over the model’s life. When Q is small — a research artefact, an internal tool — the training term dominates and compute-optimal allocation is the right target. When Q is very large, the second term dominates by orders of magnitude, and every technique that reduces pays back continuously while every technique that reduces pays back once.
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