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what's true and false in edge AI
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| Claim | Why isn't true | Correct claim | |
|---|---|---|---|
| It fits because the file fits | The file is the weight payload at one precision. Peak memory also includes activations, workspace, and a KV cache that grows linearly with the context | Fit is undetermined wihtout context length and runtime overhead | |
| Parameter count equals memory usage | The weight payload should be used, it depends on the precision, wegiths are resident, activations and KV come and go | Peak is runtime-specific | |
| FLOPS decide latency | FLOPs ignore data movement. A decode step and a prefill step over the same weights do identical airthmetic but differ in intensity | The number of tokens M is what decide everything about memory and compute-bound cases |
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