The efficiency misnomer | Size does not matter | What does the number of parameters mean in a model?

How important is the number of parameters in deep learning models? But what about other measures like FLOPs or speed/throughput?
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Paper 📜:
Dehghani, Mostafa, Anurag Arnab, Lucas Beyer, Ashish Vaswani, and Yi Tay. “The Efficiency Misnomer.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12894 (2021). https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12894

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Outline:
00:00 Model efficiency comparison
02:51 FLOPs
03:55 Number of parameters: means what?
06:31 Speed / throughput
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