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Rationale for Parallelism in Initial Prompt Processing
A key computational advantage during the initial processing of a prompt is the ability to perform calculations for all input tokens simultaneously. Explain the fundamental reason why this high degree of parallelism is possible at this stage. In your explanation, contrast this with a situation where tokens must be processed one at a time.
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Ch.5 Inference - Foundations of Large Language Models
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