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Equation 25 · 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

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The first response changes what g(a) measures. Tan and colleagues built MnasNet’s rationale explicitly around the observation that operation counts are a poor stand-in for real efficiency, so the search “directly measures real-world inference latency by executing the model on mobile phones,” and reported an architecture 1.8x…

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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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