Equation 10 · Part 1 · How to Actually Compare Frontier AI Models Without Building a Misleading Leaderboard
Symbol varepsilon
What this part means
the plus sampling noise.
Its job in the formula
varepsilon is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
a function of the weights , the harness , the sampling temperature T , the number of samples k and how they are aggregated, the prompt template , the date t a snapshot was queried, plus sampling noise .
The passage around this formula
…of the weights , the harness , the sampling temperature T , the number of samples k and how they are aggregated, the prompt template , the date t a snapshot was queried, plus sampling noise . A citation that fixes and leaves the other five free has not specified a comparable quantity. OpenAI’s own simple-evals table makes the same point from a different angle: rows the lab ran itself under a disclosed zero-shot chain-of-thought protocol sit beside rows for…
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