Probability Glossary

Browse 6 probability terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

6 Probability Terms

CPT
Conditional probability table, the table of probabilities attached to a node in a Bayesian network. It influences how models are trained, evaluated, or served,...
Flow Matching
A generative modeling method that learns continuous transport paths between simple and target distributions. It influences how models are trained, evaluated,...
Hidden Markov Model
A probabilistic sequence model with hidden states that emit observable outputs over time. It influences how models are trained, evaluated, or served, and it...
Likelihood
A probabilistic measure of how well a model assigns probability to observed data or candidate outputs. In AI and machine learning, likelihood is central to...
Logprob
The logarithm of a probability assigned by a model to a token or sequence, commonly used for numerical stability in scoring and decoding. Logprobs are useful...
Token Probability
The probability a model assigns to a particular token as the next output in a given context. Token probabilities are useful for scoring, confidence analysis,...

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