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I find it a little annoying that in the paper[0] they show various graphs of megabytes saved in the paper, but no actual size of the binaries that these policie
by vanderZwan 2y ago
I find it a little annoying that in the paper[0] they show various graphs of megabytes saved in the paper, but no actual size of the binaries that these policies are applied to, as far as I can tell.
So when they say the inline policies end up saving 20 MiB on the training data, and then only a few megabyte on a different binary not in the training data, I lack the context to really judge what that says. Is the other binary much smaller? The same size? What if it's bigger and therefore hides a much smaller relative size savings?
At the very end of the paper do they mention one binary size: namely that they save about 3 MB on the Chrome on Android binary, which is 213.32 MB after implementing the policy. A solid 1%, probably makes an enormous difference at Google Scale, especially for their main Android browser, so I hope it's obvious that I'm not trying to diminish the achievement of these people. But I find the other benchmarks kind of hard to interpret.
[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19462
- KolmogorovComp 2y agoThey mention an overhaul improvement of 1% > After seven iterations of our algorithm we find a size reduction of approximately 1% compared to the evolutionary strategy baseline. See the paper for more detailed results
- vanderZwan 2y agoYes, which is also the conclusion that I cited from the paper. My issue is with the other benchmarks described in the paper.