Equation 6 · Part 1 · What Alignment Actually Costs
Symbol n
What this part means
the practical reason the labeller headcounts above are so low.
Its job in the formula
n 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
That ceiling on n is the practical reason the labeller headcounts above are so low.
The passage around this formula
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…
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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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