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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.

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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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