emerges

Definition

A capability or structure "emerges" when it appears as a by-product of training or scale, without having been designed in or explicitly optimized for — syntactic structure inside a language model, or a task ability that looks absent at one scale and present at the next. The claim is contested in an instructive way: whether a jump looks emergent can depend on the metric, since discontinuous scoring can manufacture apparent discontinuity from smooth underlying improvement.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Co-RL — Reasoning Without Labels, Emerging From a Diverse CohortCo-RL: Unsupervised Reasoning Emerges from Diverse Cohort in Multi-agent RL