generalization
/ˌdʒɛnɝəɫɪˈzeɪʃən/
applying learned patterns to new, previously unseen situations
generalization in a sentence
“Good generalization meant the model could classify animals it never saw in training.”
Origin of generalization
Latin generalis relating to all + -ization
Related Words
abstraction
forming general concepts from specific instances
grounding
connecting language to real-world entities, actions, or perceptions
emergent ability
capabilities that suddenly appear at certain model scales without being explicitly trained
in-context learning
learning to perform new tasks from examples provided in the prompt without weight updates
transfer learning
applying knowledge learned from one task to perform better on different tasks
multimodal
capable of processing multiple types of input like text, images, and audio