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LLMs have tons of parameters, but what is a parameter?

Large language models are routinely described in terms of their size, with figures like 7 billion or 70 billion parameters ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...
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Large Language Model Selection -- Why the Parameter Count Isn't Everything

When choosing a large language model (LLM) for use in a particular task, one of the first things that people often look at is the model's parameter count. A vendor might offer several different ...