Equation 8 · Part 1 · What Alignment Actually Costs
Symbol barc
What this part means
barc 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
barc 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 barc→Article meaning
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 correct for position bias, at an average…
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