Equation 20 · Part 1 · OpenAI Model Systems from First Principles: Weights, Post-Training, and Inference Compute

Symbol C_total

C_{\mathrm{total}}

C_{\mathrm{total}}

What this part means

$C_t$ otal is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

$C_t$ otal is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Full expressionSymbol C_totalArticle meaning

The third term in $C_{\mathrm{total}}$ is now a control surface rather than a constant, and it obeys its own scaling behaviour.

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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