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The Challenge of Variable-Length Sequences in Batch Processing
An inference engine is designed to process multiple text sequences at once in a 'batch' to maximize computational throughput. Explain why the common scenario of these sequences having different lengths poses a fundamental problem for efficient, parallelized computation on modern hardware (like GPUs).
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The Challenge of Variable-Length Sequences in Batch Processing