Definition. Expected evaluation performance [ftip-005E]

For a protocol \(P\) in the integrable evaluation domain of Convention [ftip-005D], its expected evaluation performance is the finite real number

\[ \begin {aligned} J_{\rm ev}(P) &=\int Z_P\,d(\mathbb P_P\otimes \nu _{\rm ev}),\\ &=\mathbb E\left [ U\left (X,\mathsf {Eval}_b(M_P,X;\Xi );\Omega \right ) \right ], \\ (X,\Xi ,\Omega )&\sim Q_{\rm ev}(dx)\Lambda _{\rm ev}(d\xi ,d\omega \mid x). \end {aligned} \]

The label \(\rm ev\) abbreviates the task, law, inference protocol, budget, utility, and seed law fixed above. Changing any of them changes the estimand. Both positive and negative parts of \(Z_P\) have finite expectation; an undefined expectation or an infinite value is outside this real-valued performance domain.