Equation 7 · Part 3 · Dense, Sparse, and Distilled: Comparing Approaches to Frontier Model Capacity
Symbol D
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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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The passage around this formula
The dense route is the baseline: more parameters, more data, more compute, with C 6ND . Kaplan and colleagues established that loss falls as a power law in each of these over many orders of magnitude [ 2 ] , and the field spent several years reading that as a mandate to grow N .
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