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$C_{\mathrm{post}}$

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Editorial equation guide

The one-time computation used after pretraining to shape the model’s behavior.

Article-grounded definition

post-training compute.

C_{\mathrm{total}} = C_{\mathrm{pre}} + C_{\mathrm{post}} + Q \cdot \bar{c}_{\mathrm{inf}},

The total compute bill has three parts: pretraining, post-training, and all the requests served afterwards.

C_{\mathrm{post}}

post-training compute.