points by visarga 3 days ago | 0 comments
No, the term is well defined. It means being on the Pareto curve of performance vs size, such as: https://tinyurl.com/26sw35fw
[–] epolanski 3 days ago
By...whom? An ISO standard? Highly cited scientific literature?
A tinyurl pic linked by randoms over the internet?
[–] XnoiVeX 3 days ago
Frontier and SOTA usually mean that something is on the edge of what's possible. The bleeding edge.
[–] jhgb 2 days ago
The Pareto frontier IS "the edge of what's possible".
[–] O_H_E 3 days ago
well yes but the y axis heavily depends on the benchmark you choose
[–] vikramkr 3 days ago
Terms can have multiple definitions and language is descriptive not prescriptive. If you intend to communicate that you mean "Pareto frontier" in the current context you need to include the word "pareto." If you don't then "frontier" will be understood as referring to mythos/astra/opus 5.5 tier models in intelligence (max capability regardless of tradeoffs). It doesn't matter that the second definition in the dictionary is the one you want to convey (charitably assuming you're not trying to mislead given the value of the hype of being able to call your model a frontier model) if your audience understands what you're saying to mean the first definiton.
[–] bastawhiz 3 days ago
Is it really on the pareto curve if you get to define arbitrary conditions for what other models are plotted on the curve?
[–] advael 3 days ago