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Definition

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Keeping every station busy by starting the next stage the moment the previous one hands off a piece, like an assembly line, instead of waiting for the whole job to finish.

As stated in the literature

An overlap technique where downstream stages begin processing a stream as soon as upstream produces its first output; total latency approaches the slowest stage rather than the sum of all stages, applied to streaming reasoning between agents.

Also called: pipeline

Why it matters: It cuts total waiting time dramatically, since the system runs only as slow as its slowest stage instead of adding up every stage's delay.

For example, a translator starts rendering the first sentence of a speech into another language while the speaker is still talking, rather than waiting for the whole speech to end.

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“… Under the shared-embedding pipeline — where pictures and text queries live in one numeric space, CLIP-style — ninety-nine percent of …”
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