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Home/Glossary/Scaling Law
AI Glossary Term

What does “Scaling Law” mean?

Definition

An empirical relationship showing how performance improves with model size, data, or compute.

Related terms

Sliding Window Attention
An attention pattern where each token attends only to a fixed-size window of nearby tokens to reduce compute.
Self-Play
A training setup where a model improves by generating data through interactions or competitions with copies of itself.
Algorithmic Transparency
How clearly an AI system's logic, data sources, and limitations are documented and understandable.
Data Drift
A shift in real-world input data over time that can degrade model performance.
Generalization
How well a model performs on new, unseen data outside the training set.
Gradient
A vector showing how much each parameter should change to reduce loss.

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