Equation 3 · Part 1 · The Physical Economics of Inference: Bandwidth, Energy, and the Limits of a Datacenter
Symbol N
What this part means
N 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
N 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 N→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
Take a dense model with N parameters served at p bytes per parameter. The weight traffic per decoding step is Np , incurred once per step regardless of how many requests share it. The per-request cache traffic is
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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