Task Machine Learning, NLP
noun
Definition: A specific problem objective a model is trained or evaluated to perform (e.g., classification, translation, summarization) [Google Machine Learning Glossary].
Example in context: “Our experiment involving prompt selection via semantic similarity with GPT-4 yielded the most favorable outcomes on the validation split, and prompt selection was the best approach for both Task A and Task B.” [Mathur et al. 2023]
Related terms: objective, downstream task, training objective