Definition. Evaluation inference protocol [ftip-001R]

Let \(M\) be an executable model artifact of the form in Definition [ftip-001K]. An evaluation inference protocol is a specified procedure \[ \mathsf I(M,x,b_{\mathrm {eval}};\xi )=(o,c) \in \mathcal O_{\mathsf T}\times \mathcal B_{\mathrm {eval}}, \] where \(x\in \mathcal X_{\mathsf T}\), \(b_{\mathrm {eval}}\in \mathcal B_{\mathrm {eval}}\), and \(\xi \in \Omega _I\) use the notation of Notation [ftip-001N]; \(o\) is a candidate outcome and \(c\in \mathcal B_{\mathrm {eval}}\) is the realized resource-use vector. A valid execution satisfies \(c\preceq b_{\mathrm {eval}}\) coordinatewise.

The protocol fixes prompt construction, decoding, sampling temperature, number of candidates, candidate selection, allowed tools, stopping, and any test-time search. None of these choices is determined by the checkpoint alone.