Data mining

The search for patterns or useful information within a larger body of data.

In training workflows, teams also use mining to find examples relevant to a capability, failure or coverage gap. Retrieval narrows the candidate pool; it does not by itself establish that each example is correctly labeled or suitable for training. Selection and quality review answer different questions.

In practice

A robotics team searches a video archive for interrupted grasps, then checks which retrieved clips really show that event.