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Equation 6 · Part 8 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Frontier AI Model Comparisons

addition

P(A≻B)=11+10−(RA−RB)/400.P(A \succ B) = \frac{1}{1 + 10^{-(R_A - R_B)/400}}.
addition

What this part means

Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.

Its job in the formula

Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.

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…

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Learn the underlying idea

Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.

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