Equation 3 · Part 1 · The Safeguards Behind a Claude Refusal, and What They're Actually Trading Off
Symbol p_esc
What this part means
the fraction of traffic the probe escalates, the expected added cost per request is.
Its job in the formula
sc 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 the article explains it
If is the near-free cost of the first pass and the much larger cost of the second, and is the fraction of traffic the probe escalates, the expected added cost per request is
The passage around this formula
…it flags to a slower, more capable classifier that reviews the input and output together [ 1 ] . If is the near-free cost of the first pass and the much larger cost of the second, and is the fraction of traffic the probe escalates, the expected added cost per request is
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [4] Constitutional Classifiers: Defending Against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming ↗
- [1] Next-Generation Constitutional Classifiers: More Efficient Protection Against Universal Jailbreaks ↗
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