AI Glossary Term

What is Classification?

Definition

A task where a model assigns an input to one or more predefined categories.

Related terms

Feature Engineering
Designing or transforming input variables to make learning easier and more effective.
Mixture of Experts (MoE)
An architecture with specialized subnetworks where only selected experts run per input.
Transfer Learning
Applying knowledge learned in one task or domain to improve another task.
Chain-of-Thought
A reasoning style where an AI model decomposes a problem into intermediate steps.
Classifier
A model designed specifically for classification tasks.
Context Window
The maximum amount of input tokens a language model can process at once.

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