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Open-Source Model
AI Glossary Term
What is Open-Source Model?
Definition
A model released with public weights or code for inspection, adaptation, and reuse.
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Backpropagation
The core training algorithm that updates model weights by propagating prediction errors backward through the network.
Domain Adaptation
Methods that transfer a model trained in one domain to perform better in another domain.
Generative AI
AI systems that produce new content such as text, images, audio, video, or code.
LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
A parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that adds low-rank adapter matrices.
Model Quantization
Reducing numeric precision of model weights to decrease memory and inference cost.
Pretraining
Initial large-scale model training on broad data before downstream adaptation.
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