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Shadow Deployment
AI Glossary Term
What does “
Shadow Deployment
” mean?
Definition
Running a model in parallel with production traffic without affecting user-facing decisions.
Related terms
Speculative Decoding
An inference acceleration method where a small draft model proposes tokens that a larger model verifies in parallel.
SentencePiece
A language-agnostic tokenizer that learns subword units directly from raw text without pre-splitting on whitespace.
Autonomous System
A system that can make decisions and act with limited or no direct human control in real time.
Continual Learning
Training approaches that let a model keep learning from new data without forgetting prior knowledge.
Intent Classification
Predicting the user's purpose from a text query to route it correctly.
Recommendation System
A model pipeline that predicts user preferences for ranking content or products.
Learn more in our free guides
Canary and Shadow Deployments
See also
Safety Case
Structured Output
Retrieval Precision
Test-Time Compute
Prompt Template
Trust Calibration
Output Parser
Usage-Based Billing
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