Training Data

Domain: Data & Datasets

🎯 Motivation

The examples a model learns from. Quality and quantity of training data directly determine model performance.

πŸ“‹ Concrete Example

GPT-4 was trained on millions of documents: books, articles, code, conversations. The diversity and quality of this data shaped its capabilities.

πŸ”— Analogy

A student’s textbooks and lecture notes - the quality of these learning materials directly determines how well they understand the subject. Training data is the model’s textbook.