Equation 3 · Part 1 · How to Actually Compare Frontier AI Models Without Building a Misleading Leaderboard
Symbol s
What this part means
the observed score.
Its job in the formula
s is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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Where the article explains it
Formally, an observed score s is not a property of a model alone.
The passage around this formula
Formally, an observed score s is not a property of a model alone. It is closer to . 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…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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