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Overfitting

When a model memorises its examples instead of learning a pattern that generalises.

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Explainability 75% connected

How easily people can understand why an AI system produced an output.

cluster 36 5% interchangeable

Both words occur in the curated vocabulary group "Artificial intelligence fundamentals". This is a related-vocabulary connection, not an automatic synonym.

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Training data 75% connected

Examples used to teach an AI system patterns.

cluster 36 5% interchangeable

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Algorithm noun · 81% connection

The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.

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Inference noun · 81% connection

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

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Model noun · 81% connection

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Neural network noun · 81% connection

An AI structure that learns patterns through layers of connected calculations.

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Abstractionism noun · 78% connection

a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples

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Academy noun · 78% connection

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a ra…

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Analysis noun · 78% connection

the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride's father’

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Antonomasia noun · 78% connection

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…

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Archetypal adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.

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Archetype noun · 78% connection

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

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Copy noun · 78% connection

That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imit…

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Design noun · 78% connection

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Ensample noun · 78% connection

An example; a pattern or model for imitation.

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Example noun · 78% connection

That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.

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Exemplar noun · 78% connection

A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist concei…

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Fashion noun · 78% connection

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coa…

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For preposition · 78% connection

Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation,…

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form noun · 78% connection

That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

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Fractal noun · 78% connection

A pattern whose structure repeats at different scales.

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Guipure noun · 78% connection

A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but…

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Imitate verb · 78% connection

To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.

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Imitative adjective · 78% connection

Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent…

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