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generalize

[jen-er-uh-lahyz] / ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz /


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"Keeping it in flatter parts of the landscape, where lots of solutions perform similarly well, turns out to be what allows these models to generalize."

From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2026

“These specialized architectures can be excellent in narrow slices of inference, but they don’t generalize well to the kind of workloads the frontier is converging on.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

AI models may perform well on the data they’re trained on, but “really the proof of the value of it is, does it generalize to an external population?” he noted.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

And economics teaches us not to generalize data trends when the “rules of the game” change.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

Third, experimentation involves both a study of the external world and a capacity to generalize.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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