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Equation 7 · Part 1 · Shrink It, Train It Small, or Search for It: The Main Strategies for Small Models, Compared

Symbol z_t

ztz_t
ztz_t

What this part means

the loss function rewards matching.

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ztz_t 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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This is a structural consequence of the objective in the equation above, not an empirical finding reported by any single paper cited here: the loss function rewards matching ztz_t , and has no term that would push the student past it.

The passage around this formula

…to independently discover a better answer. This is a structural consequence of the objective in the equation above, not an empirical finding reported by any single paper cited here: the loss function rewards matching ztz_t , and has no term that would push the student past it.

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