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Equation 8 · Part 1 · What Alignment Actually Costs

Symbol barc

cˉ\bar{c}
cˉ\bar{c}

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barc 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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barc is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

with n comparisons collected at a mean cost cˉ\bar{c} 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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