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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.
Learn more in our free guides
AI Models Explained
Model Collapse
Model Lifecycle
Model Context Protocol
See also
Small Language Model (SLM)
Supervised Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Synthetic Data
Self-Supervised Learning
System Prompt
Semantic Search
Temperature
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