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Validation Set
AI Glossary Term
What does “
Validation Set
” mean?
Definition
A dataset used during development to tune models and prevent overfitting.
Related terms
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.
Benchmark
A standardized test or dataset used to measure and compare model performance.
Test-Time Compute
Additional inference computation used during response generation to improve quality or reasoning.
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Policies, standards, and oversight mechanisms that guide how AI is developed and used in society.
Algorithm
A defined set of rules or steps that a computer follows to solve a problem or complete a task.
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Vector Database
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Transformer
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