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How do large language models scale computationally?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
LLMs scale by increasing parameters, data, and compute following scaling laws.
Deep explanation
Scaling laws show that performance improves predictably with more parameters, data, and compute. However, training cost grows quadratically in attention layers, requiring distributed training and optimization techniques like model parallelism.
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