AI safety and alignment · MLD-0961
Proxy objective
A measurable substitute for a harder-to-measure real objective.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Use a judge score as a proxy for usefulness.
Original caveat
A correlated proxy can fail under strong optimization.
Context and aliases
Level: Advanced. Stages: Training · Evaluation · Research · Governance.
Tags: Safety · RL · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: Proxy metric.