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Home/Glossary/Sparse Model
AI Glossary Term

What does “Sparse Model” mean?

Definition

A model where many parameters are zero or inactive to reduce computation.

Related terms

Zero Data Retention
A policy where request/response payloads are not stored after processing beyond short-lived operational windows.
Sliding Window Attention
An attention pattern where each token attends only to a fixed-size window of nearby tokens to reduce compute.
Prompt Injection
An attack pattern where malicious instructions are inserted into model inputs or retrieved content.
Constitutional AI
A training and behavior-shaping approach where model outputs are guided by a fixed set of written principles.
Latent Space
A compressed representational space where similar concepts are positioned near each other as vectors.
Speculative Decoding
An inference acceleration method where a small draft model proposes tokens that a larger model verifies in parallel.

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See also

Small Language Model (SLM)Supervised LearningSentiment AnalysisSynthetic DataSelf-Supervised LearningSystem PromptSemantic SearchTemperature
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