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Equation 19 · Part 1 · How AI Inference Serving Actually Works

Symbol α

α\alpha
α\alpha

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α 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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This rises with both α\alpha and γ\gamma , but with steeply diminishing returns in γ\gamma for any α\alpha below one: drafting fifty tokens ahead does not buy anywhere near fifty accepted tokens, because the marginal proposal deep into a long draft is unlikely to be exactly what the target would have generated. The…

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