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"the efficient frontier" is an important landmark of (investment) portfolio theory. It proves/explains/illustrates how you can combine selections from a diffuse
by fsckboy 15d ago
"the efficient frontier" is an important landmark of (investment) portfolio theory. It proves/explains/illustrates how you can combine selections from a diffuse cloud of individual investments and still land on a frontier that is better than any of your individual choices. It's the entire basis of "diversify your portfolio".
The efficient frontier of LLM inference is a line, not a frontier.
this is a frontier:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Markowitz_frontier.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Markowit...
no matter how good is something a smart person writes down, a pleb will come along and try to hang on its coattails.
If you want to steal an idea for this, steal indifference curves, they'd make more sense.
- iciac 14d agoThe authors are referring to a Pareto Frontier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
- regularfry 14d ago> The efficient frontier of LLM inference is a line, not a frontier. The efficient frontier of portfolio theory is also a line. Not sure I get your point here.
- fsckboy 14d agonot sure i get why you don't get it. why have the word frontier if it doesn't mean something different than other words?
- regularfry 13d agoBecause... it's an accurate description of the concept it's being applied to?