generation

Definition

Producing new content — text, images, audio, video, code — rather than selecting a label from a fixed set. The distinction matters for evaluation: classification has a correct answer to compare against, while generation usually needs reference-based metrics, model judges, or human raters. The word covers both the act and its output, as in "the generation was truncated."

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Video Generation Models: A Survey of Post-Training and Alignment — Four Toolboxes for Making Video Models Do What You AskVideo Generation Models: A Survey of Post-Training and Alignment
• Paper walkthrough: WanPE — turning a video prompt into a director's shooting planWanPE: Towards Cinematic Prompt Enhancement for Modern Text-to-Video Generation
• Paper Walkthrough: SceneMosaic — Physically Valid 3D Rooms from One Image, in Minutes, in Many VariationsSceneMosaic: Efficient and Diverse Simulation-Ready Scene Generation via Hybrid Agentic Layout Evolution