Equation 4 · Part 1 · Training on Your Own Output: Synthetic Data and What It Does to a Distribution
Symbol hatp_k+1
What this part means
the classical collapse setting.
Its job in the formula
hat+1 is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The classical collapse setting is
The passage around this formula
Let be the model fitted at generation k , and the fitting procedure. The classical collapse setting is . in which generation k+1 sees n samples drawn from its immediate predecessor and nothing else . The original data are gone. No filter selects among the samples. The lineage is single. Under those conditions, degradation compounds because there is no channel by which an error introduced at generation k can ever be corrected.
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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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