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Equation 2 · Part 5 · From Autocomplete to Delegation: The Technical History Behind OpenAI Codex

Symbol x_t

p(x1:T)=∏t=1Tp(xt∣x<t).p(x_{1:T})=\prod_{t=1}^{T}p(x_t\mid x_{<t}).
xtx_t

What this part means

xtx_t is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

Its job in the formula

xtx_t is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

The passage around this formula

An autoregressive model factorizes a sequence as p(x1:T)=∏t=1Tp(xt∣x<t)p(x_{1:T})=\prod_{t=1}^{T}p(x_t\mid x_{<t}). Source code can be placed in this representation alongside natural language. The model is not executing the program in this equation. It learns statistical structure over token sequences.

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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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