Equation 5 · The Deployment Envelope: Small Models Where the Power Is Not
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the operational intensity of the kernel. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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with the peak arithmetic rate, B the achievable memory bandwidth and I the operational intensity of the kernel. If I is small, the second term wins and the accelerator’s headline throughput is irrelevant.
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- [1] Roofline: An Insightful Visual Performance Model for Multicore Architectures ↗
- [3] Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference ↗
- [23] Introducing quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint ↗
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