contrastive
Americanadjective
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tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors.
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studying or exhibiting the congruences and differences between two languages or dialects without reference to their origins.
contrastive linguistics.
Other Word Forms
- contrastively adverb
- uncontrastive adjective
- uncontrastively adverb
Etymology
Origin of contrastive
Example Sentences
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Then they ran base contrastive learning models and models with the new algorithm through the simulations three times to see how well each classified images.
From Science Daily
They began by using simple problem-solving techniques to construct sets of contrastive summaries -- a set of faithful, error-free summaries and a set of unfaithful summaries containing errors.
From Science Daily
These two encoders were combined and trained using an algorithm called contrastive learning, which aims to learn useful input features and their cross-modal associations.
From Science Daily
To create a more efficient alternative, in recent years researchers have turned to models built through a technique known as contrastive self-supervised learning.
From Science Daily
The kinds of silences this work tests are called relative or contrastive, and they have some overlap with the study of holes.
From Scientific American
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