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Home/Glossary/Latent Space
AI Glossary Term

What does “Latent Space” mean?

Definition

A compressed representational space where similar concepts are positioned near each other as vectors.

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A training and behavior-shaping approach where model outputs are guided by a fixed set of written principles.
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