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AI inference is actually typically bandwidth limited compared to training, which can re-use the weights for all tokens <sequence length> * <batch size>. Inferen
by buildbot 2y ago
AI inference is actually typically bandwidth limited compared to training, which can re-use the weights for all tokens <sequence length> * <batch size>. Inference, specifically decoding, requires you to read all of the weights for each new token, so the flops per byte are much lower during inference!