Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
Reporting 'gpt-4-0613 (OpenAI, accessed 2024-03-15)' rather than just 'GPT-4'
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Reporting only 'ChatGPT' without date or version is insufficient for reproducibility
Editorial commentary
Closed-API models can be silently updated by their providers; the same nominal model name (e.g., ‘gpt-4’) can refer to different underlying weights at different times. For scholarly reproducibility, the version (e.g., ‘gpt-4-0613’), the access date, and where possible the provider’s snapshot identifier should be recorded.
References
- OpenAI API model versioning documentation (2024)
- Anthropic model versioning guidance (2024)
Also known as
Model snapshot · Model release
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Model versioning"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-versioning" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Model versioning",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-versioning",
"description": "The practice of identifying a specific revision of an AI model by name, version number, release date, or content hash, sufficient to uniquely distinguish it from earlier or later revisions that may behave differently on the same input.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/generative-ai-use-and-disclosure/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-versioning",
"sameAs": [
"Model snapshot",
"Model release"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
