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==== Given your focus on large-scale deployments (datacenters, GPU/ASIC hardware, memory bottlenecks, throughput, cost per token, etc.), Zebra-Llama offers several relevant touchpoints: ====
* Memory/Cache Efficiency: In large context length scenarios (e.g., multi-document, long‐form generation, retrieval-augmented generation), key-value cache size becomes a hardware bottleneck (e.g., GPU VRAM, SRAM/DRAM bandwidth). The hybrid architecture addresses that directly by compressing the KV cache or eliminating parts of it.
* Throughput Gains: For large-scale inference deployments (say 72-GPU racks, large token throughput), getting 2-3× improvement in tokens/sec (for long context) is significant — meaning less hardware / lower latency.
* Cost/Training Efficiency: Because it’s post-training adaptation rather than full pre-training, you save on the massive compute cost (and associated $$$/MW) of retraining from scratch. This aligns with your “tokens-per‐dollar / tokens-per‐watt / time‐to‐train” metrics.
* Modular Architecture: You could imagine taking a base model you already have (or invest in) and adapt it via the hybrid approach to meet specific deployment constraints (memory, latency, context length) — which fits your scenario of designing custom AI factories and network/datalink bottlenecks.
* Scalability and Hardware-Aware Design: Because the architecture explicitly reduces bottlenecks (e.g., quadratic self-attention, large KV caches) and is optimized for large context lengths, it touches on the kinds of system-level constraints you care about (NVLink vs PCIe, memory hierarchy, HBM stacks, etc.).