How to Use discriminator in a Sentence

discriminator

noun
  • But, of course, discriminators rarely say the quiet part out loud.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The other, called the discriminator, says yes or no after each guess.
    — Bryn Nelson /, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2018
  • This turned out to be a very reliable discriminator for both authors’ styles.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Outside the law-school classroom, discriminators rarely wear their ugly hearts on their sleeves.
    — Aziz Huq, Fortune, 5 June 2018
  • As a rule, people are terrible discriminators of what care is needed and what’s not.
    — Aaron E. Carroll and Austin Frakt, New York Times, 12 July 2017
  • Once the discriminator tool could no longer distinguish if the portrait was man-made or not, the image was complete.
    — Shirin Ghaffary, Recode, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Ultimately, the discriminator was unable to distinguish a real face from a fake one.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The discriminator network then reviews the first AI's levels.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2018
  • But the discriminator also receives feedback on its performance.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The other, the discriminator, attempts to detect the frauds by analyzing a long list of criteria like color, texture and sharpness.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2021
  • Another system, the discriminator, determines if the data passes as real or fake.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
  • In some cases, the training algorithm provides the same input information to both the generator and the discriminator.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • One is a generator that concocts images, the other a discriminator that tries to spot any flaws that would give away the manipulation, forcing the generator to get better.
    — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 5 July 2017
  • The generator learns the channel distribution jointly with a discriminator that teaches the generator to capture the most relevant wireless features in the model.
    — Karl Freund, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Every time the discriminator wins the battle, the generator is forced to examine its own internal logic, creating and hopefully refining into a better system.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2019
  • Becker argued that discrimination against women or ethnic minorities costs the discriminator money; in fully competitive markets, it would be competed away.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • This could be a critical discriminator for the Army, because Oshkosh is so highly regarded for its technical and manufacturing capability.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • Relevance to Lockheed military markets is the core discriminator in determining where bets are placed, but the innovations receiving venture capital typically involve dual-use technologies.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • With generative adversarial networks (GANs), the training involves a generator and a discriminator that can be considered adversaries.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Exploratory quantum resonance spectrometer as a discriminator for psychiatric affective disorders.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2014

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