Equation 8 · Part 2 · Shrink It, Train It Small, or Search for It: The Main Strategies for Small Models, Compared
Symbol N
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the what.
Its job in the formula
N occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.
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Chinchilla’s question was: given a fixed compute budget C , what N and D minimize L ?
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…tokens should grow in roughly equal proportion — “for every doubling of model size the number of training tokens should also be doubled” [ 4 ] . The underlying loss law is commonly written as . with N parameters and D training tokens. Chinchilla’s question was: given a fixed compute budget C , what N and D minimize L ? The data-efficient small-model strategy asks a different question with the same law: given a fixed, small N set by the deployment target, what choice of D — and, crucially, what…
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