<div class="section-label"><span class="num">01</span> Settings</div>
<div class="section-title"><em>Dial</em> in how a prediction runs.</div>
A prediction call is ready with defaults. Use this chapter when you want to change thresholds, censoring, or — on MaxFit and Grid — a few extra search controls. PredictOptions is the shared base; MaxFitOptions and GridOptions extend it.
The calls themselves are in [[Functions/Overview|Functions]]. What a run returns is in [[Results/Overview|Results]].
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<div class="pillar-title">Shared base</div>
<div class="pillar-text">Thresholds, censoring, scale, and related settings used by every prediction path.</div>
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<div class="pillar-title">Path extras</div>
<div class="pillar-text">MaxFit adds an objective. Grid adds combination search, seed, and retain.</div>
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<div class="pillar-text">Each path has a sensible starting point. Pass settings when you want to change it.</div>
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<div class="section-label"><span class="num">02</span> In this chapter</div>
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<div class="solution-title"><a href="/Settings/Options">Options</a></div>
<div class="solution-desc">PredictOptions, MaxFitOptions, GridOptions, defaults, and retain grid objects.</div>
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<div class="solution-title"><a href="/Settings/Allowed%20Values">Allowed values</a></div>
<div class="solution-desc">The named choices you can pass: relevance vs similarity, fit objectives, retain policies, and more.</div>
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<a class="btn-primary" href="/Settings/Options">Options</a>
<a class="btn-ghost" href="/Functions/Overview">Functions</a>
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