AI RESEARCH
Time is Not Compute: Scaling Laws for Wall-Clock Constrained Training on Consumer GPUs
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.28823v1 Announce Type: cross Scaling laws relate model quality to compute budget (FLOPs), but practitioners face wall-clock time constraints, not compute budgets. We study optimal model sizing under fixed time budgets from 5 minutes to 24 hours on consumer GPUs (RTX 4090