Equation 2 · Part 1 · Training on Your Own Output: Synthetic Data and What It Does to a Distribution
Symbol k
What this part means
k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
Let be the model fitted at generation k , and the fitting procedure. The classical collapse setting is
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Sources cited in the article section
- [2] Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse of Recursion by Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data ↗
- [1] AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data ↗
- [5] Position: Model Collapse Does Not Mean What You Think ↗
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