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Symbols and notation Symbols can mean different things in different articles. Definitions below are shown only when an equation guide or its article provides one; otherwise the entry identifies where to read the equation in context.
Equations Symbols Concepts 1506 symbols.
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C l i c e n s e s C_{\mathrm{licenses}} C licenses 1 equation
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c l o c a l c_{\mathrm{local}} c local 3 equations
Symbol c_local: the write.
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Symbol c_LR: a hard limit, and the statement that nothing propagates outside the cone is a proof about commutators, not an analogy borrowed from relativity.
C m a x C_{\mathrm{max}} C max 2 equations
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C m e r g e C_{\mathrm{merge}} C merge 1 equation
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C m o d e l , i C_{\mathrm{model},i} C model , i 1 equation
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C M o E C_{\mathrm{MoE}} C MoE 1 equation
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c o u t c_{\mathrm{out}} c out 1 equation
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C p o s t C_{\mathrm{post}} C post 2 equations
Post-training compute: The one-time computation used after pretraining to shape the model’s behavior.
C p r e C_{\mathrm{pre}} C pre 5 equations
Pretraining compute: The one-time computation used to learn from the initial training data.
C R A G C_{\mathrm{RAG}} C RAG 3 equations
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c r e a s o n c_{\mathrm{reason}} c reason 1 equation
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C r e d t e a m C_{\mathrm{redteam}} C redteam 2 equations
Symbol C_redteam: the cost of adversarially testing the result, priced in expert-hours and bounded by how many domain specialists exist at all.
c r e q c_{\mathrm{req}} c req 1 equation
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C r e v i e w , i C_{\mathrm{review},i} C review , i 1 equation
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C r e v i e w C_{\mathrm{review}} C review 1 equation
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C r e w o r k , i C_{\mathrm{rework},i} C rework , i 1 equation
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C r e w o r k C_{\mathrm{rework}} C rework 1 equation
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Symbol C_RL: the compute spent training a policy against a reward model or a verifier, priced in GPU-hours and bounded by the same hardware capability development competes for.
C r u n t i m e C_{\mathrm{runtime}} C runtime 1 equation
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C S A E C_{\mathrm{SAE}} C SAE 3 equations
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C s p e c , i C_{\mathrm{spec},i} C spec , i 1 equation
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c s t u d e n t c_{\mathrm{student}} c student 3 equations
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c t e a c h e r c_{\mathrm{teacher}} c teacher 3 equations
Symbol c_teacher: the marginal cost per query of serving each model, wherever that serving happens.
C t e a c h e r C_{\mathrm{teacher}} C teacher 1 equation
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C t o t a l C_{\mathrm{total}} C total 4 equations
Symbol C_total: total lifetime cost.
C t r a i n C_{\mathrm{train}} C train 2 equations
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C u s a g e C_{\mathrm{usage}} C usage 1 equation
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