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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-Training
Label Smoothing
Semantic Role Labeling
See also
Knowledge Graph
Latency
Knowledge Distillation
Large Language Model (LLM)
Knowledge Cutoff
Learning Rate
Jailbreak
Intent Classification
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