Equation 6 · Part 1 · Shipping an On-Device AI Feature That Actually Works in the Field
Symbol p
What this part means
p 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
p 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 p→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
The consequence is structural rather than a tuning detail: appears in every request’s cost regardless of p , so a router only pays for itself if the local attempt is cheap relative to what it saves, and a router that is expensive to run locally can lose to simply escalating difficult-looking requests immediately based on a cheap, coarse signal computed before committing to the full local attempt.
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