What’s on the Kinds of Model poster
A 5-row table: Type · Trained on · Produces.
The four families most systems fall into.
- Supervised — Labelled examples — A prediction — class or number
- Unsupervised — Unlabelled data — Structure — clusters, components
- Self-supervised — Data labelled by itself — Representations; how LLMs are trained
- Reinforcement — Rewards from actions — A policy — what to do next
- Generative — Large corpora — New samples resembling the data
Large language models are self-supervised first — predict the next token — then tuned with human feedback.
Questions about the Kinds of Model poster
- What’s on the Kinds of Model poster?
- A 5-row table: Type · Trained on · Produces. The four families most systems fall into. Supervised — Labelled examples — A prediction — class or number; Unsupervised — Unlabelled data — Structure — clusters, components; Self-supervised — Data labelled by itself — Representations; how LLMs are trained; Reinforcement — Rewards from actions — A policy — what to do next; Generative — Large corpora — New samples resembling the data. Large language models are self-supervised first — predict the next token — then tuned with human feedback.
- Who is the Kinds of Model poster for?
- Kinds of Model belongs to the Computing section rather than to a school year, because computing is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ai & ml can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Kinds of Model poster?
- The distinction is what the model is given during training, and what it is asked to produce. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Kinds of Model belongs on the wall where that computing work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Kinds of Model?
- Embeddings, Evaluating AI Output and LLM Vocabulary sit alongside Kinds of Model in the Computing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.EmbeddingsEvaluating AI OutputLLM Vocabulary
- Is the Kinds of Model poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Kinds of Model downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Computing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Kinds of Model poster print at?
- Kinds of Model is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Kinds of Model loses nothing.Printing guide
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