Glossary · Use and training pipelines
OptimizerO
3RegimeWho or what adapts against an evaluator's signal: developers, best-of-N selection, search, reinforcement learning, or the system itself. A measuring signal has, by design, none.
Defined in
Handbook · RegimeExposure, modification, and accessWho consumes the signal, who optimizes against it, how hard, what they can change, and what they can see.Related terms
- Exposure budget
- How much optimization pressure an evaluator absorbs, recorded in the optimizer's own unit (candidates, KL, developer iterations, queries, self-modification events), with the induced shift D(Q_b ‖ P_0) where measurable. There is no universal unit.
Where it comes up
- Use regimes: same judge, four jobsHandbook · Regime
- Notation and formula cardHandbook · Reference