Symbol C
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Start with how an agent handles its own failures. Suppose a task is retried up to k times under two different execution policies: sequential retry, where each attempt waits for the previous one to finish before starting, and parallel sampling, where all k attempts run concurrently and the first success is taken. Cost is roughly indifferent to which policy was used — the compute consumed scales with the number of attempts made, C(k) k , regardless of whether they ran one after another or all at once. Latency is not indifferent at all:
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Symbol k
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Equation 27 · Model Evaluation
Why Cost and Latency Belong in the Evaluation Score, Not a Footnote
This equation gives an approximation: it relates the quantities while allowing an approximation.
Start with how an agent handles its own failures. Suppose a task is retried up to k times under two different execution policies: sequential retry, where each attempt waits for the previous one to finish before starting, and parallel sampling, where all k attempts run concurrently and the first success is taken. Cost is roughly indifferent to which policy was used — the compute consumed scales with the number of attempts made, C(k) k , regardless of whether they ran one after another or all at once. Latency is not indifferent at all:
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