Equation 6 · Part 10 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Frontier AI Model Comparisons
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
The response, arriving in 2023, was to stop checking against a fixed answer and start recording a preference between two outputs instead. Chatbot Arena built an open platform in which users submit a prompt, receive responses from two anonymized models side by side, and vote for the one they prefer, without knowing which model produced which response; its authors reported collecting more than 240,000 such votes from a broad user base and validated that crowdsourced preferences agreed well with those of a separate panel of expert raters [ 12 ] . Pairwise votes of this kind are naturally converted into a single continuous rating using a Bradley–Terry-style model — the same functional form used…
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 surrounding passage
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