modeling

Definition

The act of formulating a problem as a learnable distribution or function — language modeling means predicting the next token, sequence modeling means capturing dependencies over time, reward modeling means learning a scoring function from preferences. The word points at the problem formulation, not the resulting artifact. When a title says "X modeling," read it as "we set X up as a prediction problem."

Explainers using this term

• Mamba and State Space Models — Handling Sequences Without AttentionEfficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces
• Lucida, explained — turning a room video back into parts you can move, by deferring precision to the endLucida: Parse, Generate, and Place for Composable Real-to-Sim Scene Modeling
• Paper Explained — GenFirst: Let Generation Shape the Latent Space First, Reconstruction SecondGenFirst: Generation Before Reconstruction for Stable End-to-End Latent Generative Modeling