AI Glossary Term

What is Self-Play?

Definition

A training setup where a model improves by generating data through interactions or competitions with copies of itself.

Related terms

Scaling Law
An empirical relationship showing how performance improves with model size, data, or compute.
Self-Supervised Learning
Learning representations from unlabeled data by predicting masked or transformed parts.
Synthetic Data
Artificially generated data used to augment, simulate, or protect sensitive training data.
Backpropagation
The core training algorithm that updates model weights by propagating prediction errors backward through the network.
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.

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