Equation 26 · Part 2 · Cognitive Bias Was the Label; Attention Sink Is the Suspect
subscript
subscript
What this part means
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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The passage around this formula
What survives every argument above, untouched, is the paper’s actual empirical contribution. The measurement itself — that primacy and recency sensitivity is widespread across architecturally distinct model families, that it is not confined to decoder-only transformers since the encoder-decoder T5 and Flan-T5 models showed comparable effects, that it persists into summarization tasks via BERTScore-measured focus rather than only multiple-choice selection, and that mitigation through prompting is real but unreliable — does not depend in any way on which mechanism turns out to explain it. A reader deciding whether to trust an LLM-as-judge system on an unlabeled ranking task needs to know that…
Learn the underlying idea
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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Sources cited in the article section
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