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So what's the better word?

• fidotron 3y ago
  What it actually is: https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-100M https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-100M “Prithvi is a first-of-its-kind temporal Vision transformer” That is enormously more specific and interesting, and the word model is absent.
  • sxg 3y ago
    This entirely depends on context. Replacing “model” with “temporal Vision transformer” in the title would ensure only people “in the know” understand what this even is, which severely limits the reach this post obtains. The point in posting this article is to broadly inform people that this temporal Vision transformer exists. In order to do that, you have to use words the broader audience understands even if the terms aren’t perfectly accurate. In contrast, if you’re publishing this in a machine learning journal, then sure—you should definitely call it a temporal Vision transformer.
  • oh_sigh 3y ago
    Transformer is overly specific. Most people won't care about the actual architecture and would just treat it as a black box.
  • Hizonner 3y ago
    So it's some coils of wire wound around a common high permeability core? Or some kind of weird robot-car hybrid? I guess since it's a "Vision" transformer, it's probably actually some kind of hallucinogenic plant.
  • nerdponx 3y ago
    "Transformer" is a particular type of neural network architecture, and neural networks are a class of models. The term "model" in this sense has been standard in statistics and data analysis for a very long time.