design

Definition

The act of choosing a structure and its components, or the choices themselves. Papers foreground it — model design, system design, hardware-software co-design — when they want to credit gains to structural decisions rather than to more data or more compute. The phrase design choice usually points at a specific knob the authors ablated in order to show that it mattered.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: The Design Fundamentals of Pixel Text Representation LearningOn the Design Fundamentals of Pixel Text Representation Learning
• Paper Walkthrough: Designing Qwen3.8-Next — Accuracy, Efficiency and Stability as One ProblemOn the Design of Qwen3.8-Next Architecture: Evaluation, Efficiency, and Training Stability
• Paper Explained: Co-Evolution in Agentic Systems — Three Stages Toward Self-Directed EvolutionCo-Evolution in Agentic Systems: Toward Self-Directed Evolution Beyond Human Design

In the textbook

• Design Styles for Accelerators