Equation 2 · Ten Failure Modes of Deployed Language Models, from Silent Truncation to Version Drift
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Symbol lambda_m
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The useful ordering is by expected loss. For a mode m with arrival rate , mean time to detection , and cost per undetected instance , the loss accrued before anyone intervenes is approximately
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