Testnet

Public or private blockchain for experimentation with free tokens and relaxed economics before deploying to mainnet; often has faucets and faster reset cycles.

TGE, Token Generation Event

Milestone when a new token is created and becomes transferable or claimable; distribution may follow a vesting schedule and regulatory constraints.

Tracing (AI Systems)

Telemetry that records model calls, prompts, tool invocations, and latencies for debugging, evals, and compliance in production AI apps.

Tool Use (Agents)

Agentic pattern where models call external tools or APIs (search, code, DB) via function‑calling or adapters to extend capabilities beyond pure text.

Tree of Thoughts (ToT)

Reasoning strategy that explores multiple solution branches with reflection or scoring, guiding the model to better final answers than single‑pass decoding.

Test‑Time Augmentation (TTA)

Technique that applies multiple transformations at inference and aggregates outputs to improve robustness, common in vision and sometimes LLM prompts.

Teacher Forcing

Training technique where the model is fed ground‑truth tokens for the next step instead of its own predictions, speeding convergence but risking exposure bias.

Training Run

Execution of model training with a specific dataset, objective, and hyperparameters, tracked for reproducibility and evaluation across checkpoints.

Training Data

Corpus used to fit model parameters; quality, diversity, and licensing shape capabilities and risks of memorization or bias.

Transfer Learning

Reusing knowledge from a pretrained model and adapting it to a new task or domain via fine‑tuning or prompting strategies.

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