Concept · Building with AI
Parametric knowledge
Also called: trained knowledge, built-in knowledge, model knowledge, world knowledge
What a model knows from its training, stored in its parameters. It is broad but frozen at the knowledge cutoff, and the model cannot say exactly where any given fact came from.
For example: A model can explain what a SAFE is from parametric knowledge, but it cannot know about a local grant program announced last month.
Connects to 6
- Contextual knowledge Concept
- Parameters Concept
- Training Concept
- Knowledge cutoff Concept
- Hallucination Concept
- Weights Concept