sparsity

Example Sentences

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Mr. Jones heightens the sense of unease with a style that favors sparsity and acoustic alertness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The GP-to-patient ratio already trails the national average by 18%, it added, with recruitment hampered by "confusion around funding, poor estates and a sparsity of applications".

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2023

For example, researchers sometimes "prune" unnecessary pieces of the machine-learning models by replacing some values in the tensor with zeros, creating sparsity.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023

That philosophical reticence may make these paintings even more of a welcome disruption than their visual sparsity.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

What was most extraordinary was the sparsity and lowness of the trees and bushes, the fineness of the growth.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)