Talk:Perplexity

message: I'd humbly suggest that somewhere should be found a small amount of space to formally recognize that perplexity, to most English speakers' understanding, a state of confusion or bewilderment.  I think it's great to learn details about this math theory, but perhaps someone can find a spot to mention the origin of the word or any kind of clue/reference to the actual non-math meaning of perplexity.
:Action taken: I've added a link to the Wiktionary definition. --84.9.73.211 (talk) 10:01, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Perplexity as confusion

message: ===Phrase "Perplexity Per Word"===
"Perplexity Per Word" is taken verbatim from the following uncited source:  --133.11.168.148 (talk) 05:32, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just perplexity scaled by the number of words.  It's a really common term and would be even more common if most papers didn't just say "perplexity" and assume the reader knows it's per word. --130.108.16.157 (talk) 17:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

text: Deriving a "per word" unit from a unit applied to text is an obvious thing to do for anybody on the field. Citing a source for it would be most unusual. There is no plagiarism here. Jojo (talk) 16:42, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism

message: "Perplexity Per Word" is taken verbatim from the following uncited source:  --133.11.168.148 (talk) 05:32, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just perplexity scaled by the number of words.  It's a really common term and would be even more common if most papers didn't just say "perplexity" and assume the reader knows it's per word. --130.108.16.157 (talk) 17:44, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

text: Deriving a "per word" unit from a unit applied to text is an obvious thing to do for anybody on the field. Citing a source for it would be most unusual. There is no plagiarism here. Jojo (talk) 16:42, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Phrase "Perplexity Per Word"

message: Why not just write this page as follows:
In information theory, perplexity is a unit of information such that a perplexity of $p$ equals $log_2 p$ bits, or $log_10 p$ hartleys, etc.
The rest of the page is redundant with most information theory articles.MisterSheik (talk) 02:39, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Since when does to fact that similar information can be found in academic articles mean that a wikipedia page should be removed?
I agree, this could even be merged with Entropy. Full Decent (talk) 22:17, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

text: By the same token, any other page about a derived concept could be merged. The main purpose of an encyclopedia is to help people to quickly understand a concept. This page explains the perplexity measure. It also links to entropy for those who want to know more about the theory behind it. Making it a subsection of "Entropy (information theory)" would make it much more difficult to find. Jojo (talk) 16:42, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Better wording

message: Article currently states:
:The lowest perplexity that has been published on the Brown Corpus (1 million words of American English of varying topics and genres) as of 1992 is indeed about 247 per word
I'm really not sure why the best we could do 25 years ago is relevant here.  I see perplexity of language models in English (although not on the Brown corpus) that are substantially lower than this (e.g. ~100 for recurrent neural net models).  If the Brown corpus is the benchmark, what are more recent figures on that corpus? JulesH (talk) 09:17, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seriously out-of-date figures... 

message: Even more so after the BERT and subsequent advances of late 2018 onwards.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.172.199.165 (talk) 09:56, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 onwards status 

message: The addition of the sources from 14:22, 31 July 2023‎ by Intuivo is being undone for the following reasons:
* Relevance: The cited COVID-19 article discusses Perplexity in a specific context (LDA models) that doesn't align with the broader concept in the main article.
* Availability of Authoritative Sources: More suitable references that directly address Perplexity in information theory are likely available.
* Editorial Integrity: The inclusion of more relevant and direct sources would better adhere to Wikipedia's guidelines on reliable sourcing and clarity.
The undoing aims to maintain the article's focus and ensure that the sources are directly relevant to the subject of Perplexity.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ynwaps (talk • contribs) 20:45, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Sources Added on 14:22, 31 July 2023‎ by Intuivo