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Equation 1 · Part 6 · A History of How We Learned to Evaluate AI Agents

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SGLUE=19∑t=19st,S_{\mathrm{GLUE}} = \frac{1}{9}\sum_{t=1}^{9} s_t,
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The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.

Its job in the formula

A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.

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Wang and colleagues then generalized the single-turn approach across tasks rather than within one, arguing that for language understanding “to be maximally useful, both practically and as a scientific object of study, it must be general: it must be able to process language in a way that is not exclusively tailored to any one specific task or dataset” [ 4 ] . GLUE bundled nine separate tasks — grammatical acceptability, sentiment, paraphrase and similarity judgments, and several varieties of natural-language inference — behind one leaderboard number. That number is worth writing out, because the arithmetic embeds an assumption the field would later revisit: SGLUE=19∑t=19stS_{\mathrm{GLUE}} = \frac{1}{9}\sum_{t=1}^{9} s_t. an unweighted…

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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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