Equation 26 · Part 7 · How a Model Actually Gets Small Enough to Run on a Phone
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What this part means
A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.
Its job in the formula
A raised mark can be a power or an index. Its position and the surrounding notation determine which.
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The passage around this formula
For weights, a common simplification is symmetric quantization around zero, with z=0 and the scale set directly by the largest magnitude present: . for a signed integer of b bits. An 8-bit integer has 2^8=256 representable levels; a 4-bit integer has 2^4=16 . That sixteen-fold reduction in available codes is the entire cost of quantization in one number. Treating the rounding error as approximately uniform over one quantization step s , its expected squared magnitude is the classical result
Learn the underlying idea
An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.
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