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FLOP
A floating-point operation, the basic unit used to measure how much compute went into training a model, often summed as a cumulative count to set a regulatory threshold.
also written as floating-point operation · flops
Related terms
compute thresholdA fixed amount of training compute, measured in floating-point operations, that regulation uses as a trigger line above which stricter obligations apply.view termsystemic risk thresholdA cumulative training compute cutoff in the EU AI Act above which a general-purpose model is presumed to pose systemic risk and loses any open-source exemption.view term
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