Patterns · Vol. 08

Pattern

Stratified sampling for human review

Choose which outputs a human reviews by stratifying the stream — oversampling low-confidence, rare-category, and high-stakes outputs — rather than sampling at random, so a fixed reviewer budget catches the most errors and the most consequential ones.

Classification — Sampling the output stream for review by risk stratum instead of at random.

Full entry

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