Equation 9 · Part 1 · Dense, Sparse, and Distilled: Comparing Approaches to Frontier Model Capacity
Symbol M
What this part means
M 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
M 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 M→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
What dense scaling breaks: nothing. It is the reference case, and its problem is precisely that M and both grow with N .
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