Equation 7 · Part 1 · Why Cost and Latency Belong in the Evaluation Score, Not a Footnote
Symbol c
What this part means
the trouble with discarding.
Its job in the formula
c 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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Where the article explains it
The trouble with discarding c and l is not that they are minor details.
The passage around this formula
The trouble with discarding c and l is not that they are minor details. It is that “cost” and “latency” are themselves not single, unambiguous numbers waiting to be read off a meter. Dehghani and colleagues made this point rigorously for model efficiency in general, cataloguing the many different cost indicators researchers…
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