Equation 13 · Part 1 · How AI Inference Serving Actually Works
Symbol p
What this part means
the bytes stored per element.
Its job in the formula
p 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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Where the article explains it
For a model with L layers, key-value attention heads, head dimension , holding a sequence of length s across b concurrently served sequences, stored at p bytes per element, the total resident size is
The passage around this formula
Its footprint follows directly from the shape of the cache. For a model with L layers, key-value attention heads, head dimension , holding a sequence of length s across b concurrently served sequences, stored at p bytes per element, the total resident size is
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