Glossary term
Glossary term
Architecture
A system that only evaluates the text that precedes a target section of text. In contrast, a bidirectional system evaluates both the text that precedes and follows a target section of text. See bidirectional for more details.
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A code-completion vendor uses a unidirectional model so it can stream suggestions left-to-right as the developer types.
A speech synthesis startup uses a unidirectional model so it can begin producing audio as soon as the first words are decoded.
An NLP team uses a unidirectional model for streaming generation where output must be produced incrementally as tokens are decoded.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License