Update Custom Document Intelligence Model for New Format
Short answer
C Add the additional contract format to the existing training set and retrain the model.
Question
Key Takeaways
Adding new document examples to an existing training set and retraining minimizes development effort while expanding model recognition capabilities.
To support an additional contract format in an Azure AI Document Intelligence custom model, you must add the new format to the existing training set and retrain. This page establishes that retraining an existing model minimizes development effort compared to creating a new one.
Common mistake: Choosing to create a new training set and model (Option B), which unnecessarily duplicates effort and discards existing trained capabilities.
Expert Analysis
Why the Answer Is Correct
Adding the additional contract format to the existing training set and retraining the model (Option C) directly teaches the current model to recognize the new format. This approach leverages the model's existing knowledge of the original contract formats, requiring only the incremental effort of labeling new examples and retraining. It perfectly satisfies the requirement to minimize development effort.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A and Option D suggest lowering thresholds (confidence or accuracy), which only changes the application's filtering logic but does not teach the underlying model how to understand the new contract format. Option B suggests creating a completely new training set and model, which significantly increases development effort by forcing you to start from scratch rather than building upon existing work.
Community Comment Notes
The community strongly agrees that updating the existing training set is the most efficient path. As syupwsh noted, "Option C directly addresses the need to support an additional contract format without starting from scratch." Murtuza also highlighted that "augmenting the existing training data with the new format, you can fine-tune the model without starting from scratch."
Exam Strategy
When asked to minimize development effort for expanding an existing custom model's capabilities, always prefer updating and retraining the existing model over creating a new one. Avoid threshold adjustments when the core issue is a lack of model knowledge.
Community Votes
100% of anonymous learners picked answer C. Votes are pick records left by other test-takers — they are not the verified answer.
Discussion 5 contributions
Compiled from public community threads and reader submissions, lightly edited for clarity. Handles and vote tallies are shown as recorded, and comments reflect the views of individual contributors.
From public community threads 5
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reigenchimpo 👍 2 Answered CIt is obvious that C is the correct solution.
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syupwsh 👍 1 Answered COption C directly addresses the need to support an additional contract format without starting from scratch. By adding examples of the new contract format to the existing training set and retraining the model, you enhance the model's ability to recognize the new format while leveraging the already trained capabilities for existing formats. This minimizes development effort compared to creating and training a completely new model. C it is
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Murtuza 👍 1Add the additional contract format to the existing training set and retrain the model: This is a more efficient solution. By augmenting the existing training data with the new format, you can fine-tune the model without starting from scratch. Retraining the model with the updated dataset should help it adapt to the additional format
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Murtuza 👍 3 Answered CGiven answer C is correct
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reiwanotora 👍 1 Answered CIt must be C.
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