Equation 5 · Part 1 · Training on Your Own Output: Synthetic Data and What It Does to a Distribution
Symbol k
What this part means
k+1 means one index position after k. In the article, use the nearby sentence to see what each position counts.
Its job in the formula
k+1 means one index position after k. In the article, use the nearby sentence to see what each position counts.
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The passage around this formula
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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