Equation 15 · Part 1 · OpenAI Model Systems from First Principles: Weights, Post-Training, and Inference Compute
Symbol D
What this part means
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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D 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 D→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
Hoffmann and colleagues then showed that the allocation between N and D at fixed C had been wrong in practice: for compute-optimal training, parameters and tokens should scale in roughly equal proportion, and models of the era were substantially undertrained relative to their size [ 6 ] . That result changed industry practice, but it optimises the wrong objective for…
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