probabilistically

Definition

An adverb marking a guarantee that holds with high probability rather than always. It shows up in randomized algorithms and approximate data structures, where the point is not that the answer is exact but that the error is bounded and the failure probability is controllable by tuning space or the number of hash functions. It also describes generative models that sample from a distribution instead of returning one fixed output.

Explainers using this term

• PAWBench Explained — Can Video Generators Get the Odds Right, Not Just the Physics?PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling?