discriminator

noun

dis·crim·i·na·tor di-ˈskri-mə-ˌnā-tər

: one that discriminates

especially : a circuit that can be adjusted to accept or reject signals of different characteristics (such as amplitude or frequency)

Examples of discriminator in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The first is a generator, which makes fake images, and the second is a discriminator, which learns to distinguish between real and fake. —

Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018 With little to no human supervision, the networks train one another through competition—the discriminator nudges the generator to make increasingly realistic fakes, while the generator keeps trying to trick the discriminator. —

Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018 The discriminator may start off with a different distribution. —

Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2024 But the discriminator also receives feedback on its performance. —

IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for discriminator

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