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Equation 2 · Part 1 · How Training Data and Synthetic Data Actually Work

Symbol N

NN
NN

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N 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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N 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 N is the number of exercises targeted, cgeneratec_{\text{generate}} is the compute cost of producing one candidate item, pfailp_{\text{fail}} is the fraction that fail correctness or contamination filtering and must be regenerated, and cregeneratec_{\text{regenerate}} is the cost of another attempt. This is not drawn from…

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