Equation 1 · Why Cost and Latency Belong in the Evaluation Score, Not a Footnote
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the success indicator or rate. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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Treat a single evaluation run as producing a summary triple: a success indicator or rate s , an expected cost c , and an expected latency l . A leaderboard rank is a total order — every agent gets exactly one position — built by applying some function to that triple, almost always a function that looks only at s and discards c and l entirely, or folds them into a secondary table nobody reads before making a decision.
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