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Terms index

Specialized AI and software-development terms with concise explanations

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  1. 3401

    Cross-Origin Storage

    A proposed Web API allowing different origins to share storage resources.

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  2. 3402

    Inference Pipeline

    Standard execution flow encapsulating preprocessing, computation, and postprocessing

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  3. 3403

    Open-weight model

    Machine learning models whose parameter weights are publicly available for download and local deployment.

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  4. 3404

    CI/CD

    Method of frequently integrating code and deploying to production via automated pipelines

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  5. 3405

    Far-field Speech

    Speech signals captured when the microphone is distant from the speaker.

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  6. 3406

    OpenAI-compatible API

    Third-party model calling protocols that adhere to OpenAI's standard interface specifications.

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  7. 3407

    vLLM

    A high-throughput and memory-efficient serving engine for large language models.

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  8. 3408

    Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)

    An architecture that sparsely activates multiple sub-networks to enhance capacity and efficiency.

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  9. 3409

    Curse of Dimensionality

    Phenomenon where statistical methods fail as data sparsity increases with dimensionality.

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  10. 3410

    Metadata Standard

    A unified specification format describing data attributes.

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  11. 3411

    Score Function

    The gradient of the log probability density function, commonly used in diffusion models to guide denoising processes.

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  12. 3412

    Metadata

    Data that describes other data, such as model parameters, training sources, etc.

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  13. 3413

    General-Purpose LLM

    A foundation model with broad knowledge capable of handling diverse tasks.

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  14. 3414

    Specialized Model

    An AI model fine-tuned or optimized for specific tasks or domains.

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  15. 3415

    Conditional Maximum Mean Discrepancy

    An improved distribution distance metric designed to replace traditional FID

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  16. 3416

    Cascaded Architecture

    A system design pattern where multiple processing modules are chained together, with the output of one serving as the input for the next.

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  17. 3417

    Agentic Development

    Using autonomous AI agents to automate coding or system building tasks

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  18. 3418

    Custom Kernel

    Low-level computational code optimized for specific hardware or algorithms

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  19. 3419

    DINOv2

    A self-supervised vision foundation model by Meta, often used for feature extraction

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  20. 3420

    Fréchet Inception Distance

    A metric measuring the similarity between generated and real image distributions

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  21. 3421

    Robot Learning

    Field using ML algorithms to enable robots to autonomously acquire task skills

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  22. 3422

    Kubernetes

    An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications

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  23. 3423

    Model Backend

    Interface layer connecting high-level APIs with underlying compute hardware or optimization libraries

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  24. 3424

    Managed Compute

    Cloud service where the provider manages infrastructure and operations.

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  25. 3425

    FUSE

    Userspace filesystem interface allowing file system creation without kernel modifications

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  26. 3426

    Zero-egress

    Avoiding bandwidth fees charged when data leaves a cloud provider's network

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  27. 3427

    Attention Mechanism

    Core component allowing models to dynamically focus on different parts of input sequences

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  28. 3428

    Profiling

    Analyzing runtime resource consumption to identify bottlenecks

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  29. 3429

    Word Error Rate (WER)

    An objective metric measuring the accuracy of speech recognition systems

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  30. 3430

    NVFP4

    A low-bit floating-point format used to accelerate LLM inference and reduce memory footprint

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  31. 3431

    Software Supply Chain

    The collection of all components, tools, and processes involved from code development to deployment.

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  32. 3432

    Domain Specialization

    Optimizing a model for a specific industry or data distribution to improve performance on vertical tasks.

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  33. 3433

    OCR

    Technology that converts text within images into machine-encoded characters.

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  34. 3434

    Activations

    Intermediate data passed between neural network layers, affecting computation speed and memory usage

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  35. 3435

    Weight-only Quantization

    Compresses stored weights only; requires dequantization during compute, saving memory but not necessarily FLOPs

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  36. 3436

    Initial Access Vector

    The specific entry point or method an attacker uses to first breach a target's defenses.

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  37. 3437

    Robot Manipulation

    A field involving robots physically interacting with objects via end-effectors.

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  38. 3438

    Digital Forensics

    The field of collecting and analyzing electronic data to reconstruct events and determine liability.

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  39. 3439

    Lateral Movement

    Techniques attackers use to explore a network and expand their control after gaining initial access.

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  40. 3440

    DiT

    A diffusion model variant using Transformer architecture as the denoising backbone

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