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Home/Glossary/Trust Calibration
AI Glossary Term

What does “Trust Calibration” mean?

Definition

Aligning user confidence in AI outputs with the system's actual reliability in each task.

Related terms

Calibration
How well a model's confidence scores match actual correctness probabilities.
Recommendation System
A model pipeline that predicts user preferences for ranking content or products.
Beam Search
A decoding algorithm that keeps the top several candidate sequences at each step to find higher-probability outputs.
Temperature
A sampling setting controlling randomness in generated outputs.
Transfer Learning
Applying knowledge learned in one task or domain to improve another task.
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.

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