I assume
In this case, you assume incorrectly.
pure computational power, measurable access to amount of data, # of processors / ram / computations done per interaction
No. Those are ambiguous methods of determining a models performance. What you described indicates computational/data efficiency. Absolutely none of those metrics indicate the performance of a models output. To do that, one needs 1) a reference dataset and 2) a loss/reward metric or some ensamble of them. Computational efficiency has zero correlation to model performance.
I do this for a living.
> I assume
In this case, you assume incorrectly.
> pure computational power, measurable access to amount of data, # of processors / ram / computations done per interaction
No. Those are ambiguous methods of determining a models performance. What you described indicates computational/data efficiency. Absolutely none of those metrics indicate the performance of a models output. To do that, one needs 1) a reference dataset and 2) a loss/reward metric or some ensamble of them. Computational efficiency has zero correlation to model performance.
I do this for a living.
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