What does Foundation Model mean? Definition | AI Understanding

Definition

A large pre-trained model that can be adapted to many downstream tasks.

Related terms

AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)

A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.

Continuing training on domain-specific data to adapt a pre-trained model to a specific task.

Large Language Model (LLM)

A language model trained on massive text corpora to generate and analyze text.

Initial large-scale model training on broad data before downstream adaptation.

Feature Extraction

Converting raw data into informative features that a model can use.

A software system that can observe, reason, and take actions to achieve a goal, often using tools and memory.

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Function Calling Few-Shot Learning GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)Generalization Feature Engineering Generative AI Feature Gradient

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