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Inference & ServingHard· Latency· FiD· Amdahl's Law

We shipped FiD-Light and end-to-end latency fell 4%. Wa...

Do not defend the number; decompose it. FiD-Light compresses only the decoder’s cross-attention cache, so its benefit is limited to 0.29L ms. If the encoder represents the vast majority of the budget, the total system gain will be minimal. Future improvements should focus on sharding the encoder across devices or reusing encoder outputs across queries for hot passages.

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