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Equation 21 · Part 1 · Shrink It, Train It Small, or Search for It: The Main Strategies for Small Models, Compared

Symbol g

g(a)g(a)
gg

What this part means

g 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

g is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

where A\mathcal{A} is a search space of candidate architectures designed in advance by the researchers, g(a) some measured deployment cost of architecture a , and B a budget the target device imposes. Every term in that equation is a documented design choice, and the choice of g turns out to be where the edge-specific literature does its most important work.

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A function assigns an output to each allowed input. The expression f(x) means “apply f to x”.

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