compute
verb (used with object)
to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate.
recompute
-
a word derived from
compute.
Example Sentences
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AI models use a technique called KV cache to remember certain things so they don’t have to recompute everything from scratch every single time they run a query.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
A KV cache stores conversation history during large language model inference, or when the LLM is running, so that it doesn’t have to recompute.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 14, 2026
“I was shocked, or surprised—happy, also. Because I had this number, and I thought it takes ten years or so to recompute it,” Jäkel says.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023
He has questions about how bats choose between several goals, or recompute a path, or how cells respond when a bat loses its way.
From Nature ● Jul. 10, 2018
Kepler therefore was obliged to recompute the parallax from the original observations, as also the position of the line of nodes and the inclination of the orbit.
From Kepler by Walter W. (Walter William) Bryant
