top-heavy
adjective
1
: having the top part too heavy for the lower part
2
: having too high a proportion of administrators
a top-heavy bureaucracy
3
: oversupplied with one element at the expense of others : lacking balance
a novel top-heavy with description
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The starting pitching market is very top-heavy in this offseason's free agency class.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Given the top-heavy nature of the market-cap indices, the giant companies that are leading the AI boom could weigh heavily on the market in a reversal of sentiment.
—Garth Friesen, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
Across the globe, the march to low fertility, and now to super-low birthrates, is creating top-heavy population pyramids, in which the old begin to outnumber the young.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
Essentially, as the system becomes more top-heavy with network depth, or the length of a sequence or some kind of state complexity, these changes can slow down or even stop training in networks that use backpropagation.
—John Werner, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Given the top-heavy nature of the market-cap indices, the giant companies that are leading the AI boom could weigh heavily on the market in a reversal of sentiment.
—Garth Friesen, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
Across the globe, the march to low fertility, and now to super-low birthrates, is creating top-heavy population pyramids, in which the old begin to outnumber the young.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
Essentially, as the system becomes more top-heavy with network depth, or the length of a sequence or some kind of state complexity, these changes can slow down or even stop training in networks that use backpropagation.
—John Werner, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Top-heavy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top-heavy. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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