This document provides an overview of garbage collection in the Java Virtual Machine. It discusses key concepts like generational collection, parallel and concurrent marking, and tuning garbage collection for throughput versus latency. Specific collectors like Parallel GC, CMS GC, and G1 GC are explained in terms of their marking and compaction algorithms. Memory tuning recommendations and analyzing garbage collection logs and heap dumps are also covered. The document concludes with a high-level explanation of the Garbage First garbage collector and how it uses region-based heap management.