AI & ML Glossary
Plain-English definitions for technical terms, with links to the papers where they appear.
A
- Ablation study (9)
- Agent (3)
- Alignment
- Attention mechanism (25)
B
- Benchmark (11)
C
D
- Diffusion model (5)
- Distillation (11)
E
- Embeddings (11)
- Embodied AI
- Emergent
- Ensemble (2)
F
- Fine-tuning (36)
- Flow matching (8)
G
H
- Hallucination (9)
- Held-out set
- Hyperparameter (5)
I
- Image segmentation
- Imitation learning (3)
- In-context learning (3)
- Inference (15)
J
K
- KV cache (2)
L
- Large language model (18)
- Latent space (5)
- LoRA (13)
M
N
O
P
- Parameters (10)
- Pass@k
- Policy (6)
- Policy gradient
- Policy network
- Power law
- PPO (2)
- Precision (3)
- Pretraining (2)
- Prompt injection (3)
Q
- Quantization (9)
R
- Recall (5)
- Red teaming
- Reinforcement learning (37)
- Retrieval-augmented generation (2)
- Reward hacking (6)
- Reward model (2)
- Reward signal
- RLHF
- Router (2)
S
T
- Test-time scaling
- Token (29)
- Tool use
- Trajectory (5)
- Transformer (38)
- Tree of thoughts
V
W
- World model (5)
Z
- Zero-shot (6)