scalable

Definition

Describes a method that keeps working as you increase data, model size, or problem size — compute and memory grow at a manageable rate rather than blowing up. When a title claims scalability, check the complexity in the relevant variable and whether large-scale results are actually shown. Contrast with scaling, which asks whether quality improves with resources, not merely whether the method survives them.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: Terminal-Universe — Turning Agent Logs Back Into Reusable Execution EnvironmentsTerminal-Universe: Turning Agent Trajectories into Scalable Terminal Environments
• Paper Walkthrough: Stop Anchoring to Frame One — Scal3R's Multi-Reference Relative Pose QueryScal3R: Learning Efficient Multi-Relative Pose Query for Scalable Online 3D Reconstruction
• SolarWM: Training on 5 Seconds, Walking for an Hour — and Opening the Whole StackSolarWM: Open Data and Scalable Training for Long-Horizon Video World Models