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Training Data

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Simple Explanation

Examples a computer system studies while learning to recognize patterns. Just as a person learns from practice questions, an AI system learns from large collections of information. The quality of those examples matters.

Technical Explanation

Training data is the dataset used to adjust a model’s parameters during learning. Data selection, labeling, representativeness and quality influence performance and bias.

Business Use Case

A manufacturer trains an image model using labeled photographs of products with and without defects.

Real-Life Example

A phone’s photo feature may have learned to recognize pets from many example images.