Glossary term
Glossary term
Evaluation and Benchmarks
A metric that your algorithm is trying to optimize.
Created for this library
A pricing team sets a clear business objective like maximizing margin within a price-change cap before selecting a model.
A search team's training objective is to maximize NDCG on a curated set of queries, aligning the optimizer with the production metric.
An LLM team's safety objective includes refusing prohibited content as a hard constraint, not just an optional aim.
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