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State-of-the-art

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

adjectiveCommon term

In software engineering, state-of-the-art means: Describes the best result or method known at a given time, usually measured on a well-known benchmark.

In Turkish: en gelişmiş, son teknoloji, alanındaki en iyi

How it is used

Very common in papers ('achieves state-of-the-art results') and in marketing. It is shortened to SOTA, pronounced 'SO-tuh'. Because the field moves fast, a state-of-the-art model may be overtaken within months.

Example sentences

  1. The paper claims state-of-the-art results on three Turkish benchmarks.

  2. We don't need a state-of-the-art model for this; a small one is fast and good enough.

Common collocations

  • state-of-the-art results
  • state-of-the-art model
  • achieve state-of-the-art performance
  • SOTA
  • benchmarkA standard set of tasks and data used to measure models in the same way, so that results from different teams can be compared fairly.
  • modelThe result of training: a program with learned parameters that takes an input, such as an image or a sentence, and produces an output, such as a label, a number or a text.
  • accuracyThe share of a model's predictions that are correct, out of all its predictions. A model with 90% accuracy is right on nine of every ten examples.
  • LLMShort for large language model: a very large neural network trained on huge amounts of text to predict the next token, which lets it answer questions, write, summarize and code.

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