Equation 8 · Part 1 · Reliable AI Agents Are Control Systems, Not Chatbots
Symbol z
What this part means
z is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
z is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol z→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
where the retriever assigns probability to documents z and the generator conditions on a selected set [ 6 ] . The decomposition matters because retrieval and generation fail differently.
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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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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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