local

Definition

Restricted in scope, in one of three senses. In architectures it means attending or convolving over a nearby window rather than everything; in optimisation it marks a local minimum as opposed to the global one; and in deployment it increasingly means running on your own hardware instead of calling a hosted API. That last sense is why "local model" now signals privacy and cost control rather than anything about the algorithm.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Compile by Training — Turning a Natural-Language Spec into a Function That Runs LocallyCompile by Training: Turning Natural-Language Specifications into Local Neural Functions
• Paper Walkthrough — UrbanGround: Where MLLM Agents Break Down on a Real StreetUrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City
• Paper Walkthrough: Eleven Frames Are Enough — Revisiting Local Context for Long-Horizon Streaming 3D ReconstructionRevisiting Local Context for Long-Horizon Streaming 3D Reconstruction