Glossary term
Glossary term
Architecture
A simple and quickly implemented solution to a problem. For example, "With a heuristic, we achieved 86% accuracy. When we switched to a deep neural network, accuracy went up to 98%."
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A pricing team uses a clear heuristic baseline like last-week price plus 2 percent so leadership can quantify how much the ML model adds.
A logistics team operates a hand-tuned heuristic dispatcher while training an RL agent to replace it once it proves superior in simulation.
A fraud team uses a simple velocity heuristic as a fallback when the main model is unavailable for production scoring.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License