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Home/Glossary/Label Smoothing
AI Glossary Term

What does “Label Smoothing” mean?

Definition

A regularization method that softens hard labels to improve generalization.

Related terms

Data Augmentation
Techniques that create modified training examples to improve model generalization.
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
A parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that adds low-rank adapter matrices.
Annotation
Human-added labels or metadata used to train or evaluate machine learning models.
Baseline Model
A simple reference model used to compare whether more complex approaches actually improve results.
Ensemble
Combining predictions from multiple models to improve robustness or accuracy.
Generalization
How well a model performs on new, unseen data outside the training set.

Learn more in our free guides

Pseudo-Labeling and Self-TrainingLabel SmoothingSemantic Role Labeling

See also

Knowledge GraphLatencyKnowledge DistillationLarge Language Model (LLM)Knowledge CutoffLearning RateJailbreakIntent Classification
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