@article{thejourneymattersaverageparametercount,
  title = {The Journey Matters: Average Parameter Count over Pre-training Unifies Sparse and Dense Scaling Laws},
  author = {Tian Jin and Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun and Utku Evci and Suvinay Subramanian and Amir Yazdanbakhsh and Dan Alistarh and Gintare Karolina Dziugaite},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2501.12486},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12486v1},
}