Equation 5 · Part 3 · What Alignment Actually Costs
Symbol barc
What this part means
barc is one factor in the product that computes the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
barc is one factor in the product that computes the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
The unit economics matter because a dataset’s cost is close to linear in its size: . with n comparisons collected at a mean cost per comparison. The direct comparison published in the RLAIF paper puts numbers on both sides of a genuinely useful substitution. Lee and colleagues estimate that an AI-generated preference label produced with two inference passes of GPT-4 — used to correct for position bias, at an average…
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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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