---
aliases:
  en:
  - base-objective
  ja:
  - ベース目的
concept_id: base_objective
preferred:
  en: base objective
  ja: ベース目的関数
relations:
  relations:
    broader:
    - objective
    prerequisite:
    - base_optimizer
    related:
    - reward
    - training_objective
status: active
---

# base objective

The criterion used by a base optimizer to select or update candidate learned systems; in machine learning it may be a loss, reward-based return, or other training objective, and it is conceptually distinct from any mesa-objective pursued by a learned optimizer.

## broader

- [objective](../terminology/objective.txt)

## prerequisite

- [base optimizer](../terminology/base_optimizer.txt)

## related

- [reward](../terminology/reward.txt)
- [training objective](../terminology/training_objective.txt)

## Documents: about

- [ベース目的関数とメサ目的関数は一致するとは限らない](../documents/hubinger_et_al.base-and-mesa-objectives-can-diverge.txt)

[Corpus index](../index.txt)