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Scaling LawsScaling laws say model loss falls predictably as a power law in parameters, data, and compute, which is why bigger models trained on more data reliably get better. The Chinchilla result showed that for a fixed compute budget you should scale parameters and training tokens together (roughly equally), meaning prior large models were under-trained. This reshaped how compute is allocated and why smaller, data-heavy models are competitive. Applied-AI interviews probe it because it underlies model-selection and the data-vs-size economics.
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