generalize
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“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
"We believe our method will generalize to other materials, such as tin, selenium, tellurium and related alloys with low melting points, and it could be interesting to explore for future flexible electronic circuits."
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
But my reactions were limited to the attitude of the people about me, and I did not speculate or generalize.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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