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Synthetic Data
AI Glossary Term
What does “
Synthetic Data
” mean?
Definition
Artificially generated data used to augment, simulate, or protect sensitive training data.
Related terms
Self-Play
A training setup where a model improves by generating data through interactions or competitions with copies of itself.
Continual Learning
Training approaches that let a model keep learning from new data without forgetting prior knowledge.
Data Augmentation
Techniques that create modified training examples to improve model generalization.
Dataset
A collection of structured or unstructured examples used for training, validation, or testing.
Evaluation Set
A held-out dataset used to measure model quality after training.
Fine-Tuning
Continuing training on domain-specific data to adapt a pre-trained model to a specific task.
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