Glossary term
Glossary term
Memory and Retrieval
The information that an LLM has when training ends. For example, semantic memory includes an excellent knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and the facts it was explicitly trained on.
Semantic memory does not include information gathered from retrieval-augmented generation.
Contrast semantic memory with episodic memory.
Created for this library
A customer support agent uses semantic memory to retain facts about the company's products and policies across many sessions.
A coding assistant uses semantic memory to keep stable facts about the codebase available across sessions.
A research assistant uses semantic memory to retain key facts about the user's domain across sessions.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License