performance

Overloaded term with the following meanings: - The standard meaning within software engineering. Namely: How fast (or efficiently) does this piece of software run? - The meaning within machine learning. Here, performance answers the following question: How correct is this model? That is, how good are the model's predictions?

Practitioners refer to performance when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.