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A*A* Search Algorithm
A/B TestingA statistical method for comparing two or more treatments or algorithms
A3CAsynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic
ABACAttribute-Based Access Control
ACEAlternating conditional expectation algorithm
ACOAnt Colony Optimization
AdAAdaptive Agent
AdamAdaptive Moment Estimation
ADASYNAdaptive Synthetic Sampling
ADTAutomatic Drum Transcription
AEAutoencoder
AGCAdaptive Gradient Clipping
AGIArtificial general intelligence
AIArtificial intelligence
AIaaSArtificial Intelligence as a Service
AIWPSOAdaptive Inertia Weight Particle Swarm Optimization
ALActive Learning
AMActivation maximization
AMRAbstract Meaning Representation
AMTAutomatic Music Transcription
ANIArtificial Narrow Intelligence
ANNArtificial neural network
ANOVAAnalysis of variance
APIApplication Programming Interface
ARAugmented reality
ARNNAnticipation Recurrent Neural Network
ASIArtificial superintelligence
ASICApplication-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASRAutomatic speech recognition
ASTAutomated speech translation
AUCArea Under the Curve
AutoMLAutomated Machine Learning
BB84A quantum key distribution protocol (named after its inventors, Bennett and Brassard, and the year 1984)
BBOBiogeography-Based Optimization
BCEBinary cross-entropy
BDTBoosted Decision Tree
BERTBidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
BFSBreadth-First Search
BIBusiness Intelligence
BiFPNBidirectional Feature Pyramid Network
BILSTMBidirectional Long Short-Term Memory
BLEUBilingual evaluation understudy
BNBayesian Network
BNNBayesian Neural Network
BOBayesian Optimization
BPBackpropagation
BPEByte Pair Encoding
BPMFBayesian Probabilistic Matrix Factorization
BPNBackpropagation Neural Network
BPTTBackpropagation through time
BQMLBig Query Machine Learning
BRBest-Response (in game theory)
BRDFBidirectional reflectance distribution function
BRNNBidirectional Recurrent Neural Network
BRRBayesian ridge regression
CADComputer-Aided Design
CAEContractive Autoencoder
CALAContinuous Action-set Learning Automata
CAMComputer-Aided Manufacturing
CAPTCHACompletely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CARTClassification And Regression Tree
CASEComputer-Aided Software Engineering
CatBoostCategorical Boosting
CAVConcept Activation Vectors
CBACContent-Based Access Control
CBICounterfactual Bias Insertion
CBOWContinuous Bag of Words
CBRCase-Based Reasoning
CCACanonical Correlation Analysis
CCCCanonical Correlation Coefficients
CCECategorical cross-entropy
CDBNConvolutional Deep Belief Networks
CECross-Entropy
CECConstant Error Carousel
CEGARCounterexample-Guided Abstraction Refinement
CEGISCounterexample-Guided Inductive Synthesis
CFCommon Features
cGANConditional Generative Adversarial Network
CLConfident learning
CLIPContrastive Language-Image Pre-Training
CLNNConditionaL Neural Networks
CMACovariance Matrix Adaptation
CMA-ESCovariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy
CMACCerebellar Model Articulation Controller
CMMsConditional Markov Model
CNNConvolutional neural network
COIN-ORComputational Infrastructure for Operations Research
ConvNetConvolutional Neural Network
COTChain of Thought
COTECollective of Transformation-Based Ensembles
COTPChain of Thought Prompting
CPConstraint Programming
CPLEXAn optimization solver (from "C" programming language and "simplex")
CPNColored Petri Nets
CRBMConditional Restricted Boltzmann Machine
CRFConditional Random Field
CRFsConditional Random Fields
CRNNConvolutional Recurrent Neural Network
CSLRContinuous Sign Language Recognition
CSPConstraint Satisfaction Problem
CSVComma-separated values
CT-LSTMConvolutional Transformer Long Short-Term Memory
CTCConnectionist Temporal Classification
CTRCollaborative Topic Regression
CUDACompute Unified Device Architecture
CVComputer Vision, Cross validation, Coefficient of variation
CycCycL and OpenCyc, a knowledge representation and reasoning system
D*Dynamic A* Search Algorithm
DAAFData Augmentation and Auxiliary Feature
DaaSData as a Service
DAEDenoising AutoEncoder or Deep AutoEncoder
DAMLDARPA Agent Markup Language
DARTDisturbance Aware Regression Tree
DBMDeep Boltzmann Machine
DBNDeep belief network
DBSCANDensity-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise
DCAIData-centric AI
DCGANDeep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network
DCMDNDeep Convolutional Mixture Density Network
DDPGDeep Deterministic Policy Gradient
DEDifferential evolution
DeconvNetDeConvolutional Neural Network
DeepLIFTDeep Learning Important FeaTures
DFSDepth-First Search
DLDeep learning
DMDiffusion model
DNNDeep neural network
DPDynamic Programming
DQNDeep Q-Learning
DRDetection Rate
DRLDeep Reinforcement Learning
DSData Science
DSNDeep Stacking Network
DSRDeep Symbolic Reinforcement Learning
DSSDecision Support System
DSWData Stream Warehousing
DTDecision Tree
DTDDeep Taylor Decomposition
DWTDiscrete Wavelet Transform
EDAExploratory data analysis
EKFExtended Kalman Filter
ELECTRAEfficiently Learning an Encoder that Classifies Token Replacements Accurately
ELMExtreme Learning Machine
ELMoEmbeddings from Language Models
ELUExponential Linear Unit
EMExpectation maximization
EMDEntropy Minimization Discretization
ERNIEEnhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration
ESEvolution Strategies
ESNEcho State Network
ETLExtract, Transform, Load
ETL PipelineExtract Transform Load Pipeline
EXTExtremely Randomized Trees
F1F1 Score (harmonic mean of precision and recall)
F1 ScoreHarmonic Precision-Recall Mean
FALAFinite Action-set Learning Automata
Fast R-CNNFaster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network
FCFully-Connected
FC-CNNFully Convolutional Convolutional Neural Network
FC-LSTMFully Connected Long Short-Term Memory
FCMFuzzy C-Means
FCNFully Convolutional Network
FERFacial Expression Recognition
FFTFast Fourier transform
FLFederated Learning
FLOPFloating Point Operations
FLOPSFloating Point Operations Per Second
FMFoundation model
FNFalse negative
FNNFeedforward Neural Network
FNRFalse negative rate
FOAFFriend of a Friend (ontology)
FPFalse positive
FPGAField-Programmable Gate Array
FPNFeature Pyramid Network
FPRFalse positive rate
FSTFinite state transducer
FTLFew-Shot Learning
FWAFireworks Algorithm
FWIoUFrequency Weighted Intersection over Union
GAGenetic Algorithm
GALEGlobal Aggregations of Local Explanations
GAMGeneralized Additive Model
GANGenerative Adversarial Network
GAPGlobal Average Pooling
GQAGrouped-Query Attention
GBDTGradient Boosted Decision Tree
GBMGradient Boosting Machine
GBRCNGradient-Boosting Random Convolutional Network
GDGradient descent
GEBIGlobal Explanation for Bias Identification
GFNNGradient frequency neural network
GLCMGray Level Co-occurrence Matrix
GLMGeneralized Linear Model
GLOMA neural network architecture by Geoffrey Hinton
Gloss2TextA task of transforming raw glosses into meaningful sentences.
GloVEGlobal Vectors
GLPKGNU Linear Programming Kit
GLUEGeneral Language Understanding Evaluation
GMMGaussian mixture model
GPGenetic Programming
GPRGaussian process regression
GPTGenerative Pre-Training
GPUGraphics processing unit
GradCAMGRADient-weighted Class Activation Mapping
GRUGated recurrent unit
GurobiAn optimization solver (named after its founders, Zonghao Gu, Edward Rothberg, and Robert Bixby)
HamNoSysHamburg Sign Language Notation System
HANHierarchical Attention Networks
HCHierarchical Clustering
HCAHierarchical Clustering Analysis
HDPHierarchical Dirichlet process
HFHugging Face
HHDSHipHop Dataset
hLDAHierarchical Latent Dirichlet allocation
HMMHidden Markov Model
HNNHopfield Neural Network
HOGHistogram of Oriented Gradients (feature descriptor)
HopfieldHopfield Network
HPCHigh Performance Computing
HREDHierarchical Recurrent Encoder-Decoder
HRIHuman-Robot Interaction
HSMMHidden Semi-Markov Model
HTMHierarchical Temporal Memory
i.i.dIndependent and Identically Distributed
i.i.d.Independently and identically distributed
IaaSInfrastructure as a Service
ICAIndependent component analysis
ICPIterative Closest Point (point cloud registration)
ID3Iterative Dichotomiser 3
IDA*Iterative Deepening A* Search Algorithm
IDRInput dependence rate
IGInvariant Generation
IIDIndependently and identically distributed
IIRInput independence rate
ILASPInductive Learning of Answer Set Programs
ILPInteger Linear Programming
INFDExplanation Infidelity
IoAInternet of Agents
IoEInternet of Everything
IoTInternet of Things
IoUJaccard index (intersection over union)
IRInformation Retrieval
IRCoTInterleaving Retrieval CoT
ISICInternational Skin Imaging Collaboration
IVRInteractive Voice Response
K-MeansK-Means Clustering
KBKnowledge Base
KDEKernel Density Estimation
KFKalman Filter
kFCVK-fold cross validation
KLKullback Leibler (KL) divergence
KNNK-nearest neighbors
KRKnowledge Representation
KRRKernel Ridge Regression
LAIONLarge-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network
LAMALAnguage Model Analysis
LaMDALanguage Models for Dialog Applications
LBPLocal Binary Pattern (texture descriptor)
LDALatent Dirichlet Allocation
LDADELatent Dirichlet Allocation Differential Evolution
LEPORLanguage Evaluation Portal
LightGBMLight Gradient Boosting Machine
LIMELocal Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations
LINGOA software for linear, nonlinear, and integer optimization
LLLifelong learning
LLMLarge language model
LLSLinear least squares
LMNNLarge Margin Nearest Neighbor
LoLMLots of Little Models
LPLinear Programming
LPAQALanguage model Prompt And Query Archive
LRPLayer-wise Relevance Propagation
LSALatent semantic analysis
LSILatent Semantic Indexing
LSTMLong short-term memory
LSTM-CRFLong Short-Term Memory with Conditional Random Field
LTRLearning To Rank
LVQLearning Vector Quantization
M2MMachine to Machine
MADEMasked Autoencoder for Distribution Estimation
MAEMean absolute error
MAFMasked Autoregressive Flows
MAIRLMulti-Agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning
MAPMaximum A Posteriori (MAP) Estimation
MAPEMean absolute percentage error
MARLMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning
MARTMultiple Additive Regression Tree
MaxEntMaximum Entropy
MAXSATMaximum Satisfiability Problem
MCLNNMasked ConditionaL Neural Networks
MCMCMarkov Chain Monte Carlo
MCSModel contrast score
MCTSMonte Carlo Tree Search
MDLMinimum description length (MDL) principle
MDNMixture Density Network
MDPMarkov Decision Process
MDRNNMultidimensional recurrent neural network
MERMusic Emotion Recognition
METEORMetric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering
MILMultiple Instance Learning
MILPMixed-Integer Linear Programming
MINTMutual Information based Transductive Feature Selection
MIoUMean Intersection over Union
MIPMixed-Integer Programming
MLMachine learning
MLaaSMachine Learning as a Service
MLEMaximum Likelihood Estimation
MLLMMultimodal large language model
MLMMusic Language Models
MLPMulti-Layer Perceptron
MoAMixture of Agents
MoEMixture of Experts
MMIMaximum Mutual Information
MNISTModified National Institute of Standards and Technology
MOEAMulti-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm
MQAMulti-Query Attention
MPAMean Pixel Accuracy
MRMixed Reality
MRFMarkov Random Field
MRRMean Reciprocal Rank
MRSMusic Recommender System
MSDAEModified Sparse Denoising Autoencoder
MSEMean squared error
MSRMusic Style Recognition
MTLMulti-Task Learning
NARXNonlinear AutoRegressive with eXogenous input (neural network model)
NASNeural Architecture Search
NBNa ̈ıve Bayes
NBKENa ̈ıve Bayes with Kernel Estimation
NDCGNormalized Discounted Cumulative Gain
NENash Equilibrium (in game theory)
NEATNeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies
NERNamed entity recognition
NERQNamed Entity Recognition in Query
NESTNeural Simulation Tool
NFNormalizing Flow
NFLNo Free Lunch (NFL) theorem
NISQNoisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (quantum computing)
NLGNatural Language Generation
NLPNatural Language Processing
NLTNeural Machine Translation
NLUNatural Language Understanding
NMFNon-negative matrix factorization
NMSNon Maximum Suppression
NMTNeural Machine Translation
NNNeural network
NNMODFFNeural Network based Multi-Onset Detection Function Fusion
NPENeural Physical Engine
NRMSENormalized RMSE
NSGA-IINon-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II
NSTNeural style transfer
NTMNeural Turing Machine
NuSVCNu-Support Vector Classification
NuSVRNu-Support Vector Regression
OBMOne Big Model
OCROptical character recognition
ODObject Detection
ODFOnset Detection Function
OILOntology Inference Layer
OLROrdinary Linear Regression
OLSOrdinary Least Squares
OMNeT++Objective Modular Network Testbed in C++
OMROptical Mark Recognition
OOFOut-of-fold
ORBOriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF (feature descriptor)
OWLWeb Ontology Language
PAPixel Accuracy
PaaSPlatform as a Service
PACOPoisson Additive Co-Clustering
PaLMPathways Language Model
PBACPolicy-Based Access Control
PCAPrincipal component analysis
PCLPoint Cloud Library (3D perception)
PECSPhysics Engine for Collaborative Simulation
PEGASUSPre-training with Extracted Gap-Sentences for Abstractive Summarization
PFParticle Filter
PFEProbabilistic facial embedding
PLSIProbabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing
PMProject Manager
PMFProbabilistic Matrix Factorization
PMIPointwise Mutual Information
PNNProbabilistic Neural Network
POCProof of Concept
POMDPPartially Observable Markov Decision Process
POSPart of Speech (POS) Tagging
POTPartially Observable Tree (decision-making under uncertainty)
PPLPerplexity (a measure of language model performance)
PPMIPositive Pointwise Mutual Information
PPOProximal Policy Optimization
PReLUParametric Rectified Linear Unit-Yor Topic Modeling
PRMProbabilistic Roadmap (motion planning algorithm)
PSOParticle Swarm Optimization
PUPositive Unlabaled
PYTMPitman
QAQuestion Answering
QAOAQuantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
QAPQuadratic Assignment Problem
QECQuantum Error Correction
QFTQuantum Fourier Transform
QIPQuantum Information Processing
QKDQuantum Key Distribution
QMLQuantum Machine Learning
QNNQuantum Neural Network
QPQuadratic Programming
QPEQuantum Phase Estimation
R-CNNRegion-based Convolutional Neural Network
R2R-squared
RAGRetrieval-Augmented Generation
RandNNRandom Neural Network
RANSACRANdom SAmple Consensus
RBACRule-Based Access Control
RBFRadial Basis Function
RBFNNRadial Basis Function Neural Network
RBMRestricted Boltzmann Machine
RDFResource Description Framework
ReActReason + Act
REALMRetrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training
ReCAPTCHAReverse CAPTCHA
ReLURectified Linear Unit
REPTreeReduced Error Pruning Tree
RETRORetrieval Enhanced Transformer
RFRandom forest
RFERecursive Feature Elimination
RGBRed Green Blue color model
RICNNRotation Invariant Convolutional Neural Network
RIMRecurrent Interence Machines
RIPPERRepeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction
RISERandom Interval Spectral Ensemble
RLReinforcement learning
RLFMRegression based latent factors
RLHFReinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
RMSERoot mean squared error
RMSLERoot mean squared logarithmic error
RMSpropRoot Mean Square Propagation
RNNRecurrent neural network
RNNLMRecurrent Neural Network Language Model (RNNLM)
RoBERTaRobustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
ROCReceiver operating characteristic
ROIRegion Of Interest
ROSRobot Operating System
ROUGERecall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (NLP metric)
RPARobotic Process Automation
RRRidge Regression
RRTRapidly-exploring Random Tree (motion planning algorithm)
RSIRecursive self-improvement
RTRLReal-Time Recurrent Learning
SASimulated Annealing, Segment Anything
SAMSegment Anything Model
SaaSSoftware as a Service
SACSoft Actor-Critic
SAEStacked AE
SARSAState-Action-Reward-State-Action
SATSatisfiability Problem
SBACSituation-Based Access Control
SBMStochastic block model
SBOStructured Bayesian optimization
SBSESearch-based software engineering
SCHStochastic convex hull
SCIPSolving Constraint Integer Programs
SDAEStacked DAE
seq2seqSequence to Sequence Learning
SERSentence Error Rate
SGBoostStochastic Gradient Boosting
SGDStochastic gradient descent
SGVBStochastic Gradient Variational Bayes
SHAPSHapley Additive exPlanation
SHLLESupervised Hessian Locally Linear Embedding
SIFTScale-Invariant Feature Transform (feature detection)
Sign2(Gloss+Text)Sign to Gloss and Text
Sign2GlossA one to one translation from the single sign to the single gloss.
Sign2TextA task of full translation from the sign language into the spoken one
SLSupervised learning
SLAMSimultaneous Localization and Mapping
SLMSmall Language Model
SLDSSwitching Linear Dynamical System
SLPSingle-Layer Perceptron
SLRTSign Language Recognition Transformer
SLTSign Language Translation
SLTTSign Language Translation Transformer
SMA*Simplified Memory-bounded A* Search Algorithm
SMBOSequential Model-Based Optimization
SMOSequential Minimal Optimization
SMOTESynthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique
SNNSparse Neural Network
SOMSelf-Organizing Map
SOTAState of the Art
SPARQLSPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language
Spiking NNSpiking Neural Network
SPMSentencePiece Model (subword tokenization)
SpRaySpectral Relevance Analysis
SSDSingle-Shot Detector
SSLSelf-Supervised Learning
SSVMSmooth support vector machine
STStyle transfer
STaRSelf-Taught Reasoner
STDAStyle Transfer Data Augmentation
STDPSpike Timing-Dependent Plasticity
STLSelt-Taught Learning
SUMOSimulation of Urban Mobility
SURFSpeeded-Up Robust Features (feature detection)
SVCSupport Vector Classification
SVDSinging Voice Detection
SVMSupport vector machine
SVRSupport Vector Regression
SVSSinging Voice Separation
SWI-PrologSemantic Web Interface for Prolog
t-SNEt-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding
T5Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer
TDTemporal Difference
TDATargeted Data Augmentation
TDETime Domain Ensemble
tf-idfterm frequency-inverse document frequency
TGANTemporal Generative Adversarial Network
THAIDTHeta Automatic Interaction Detection
TINTTree-Interpreter
TLTransfer Learning
TLFNTime-Lagged Feedforward Neural Network
TNTrue negative
TNRTrue negative rate
ToMTheory of Mind
TPTrue positive
TPOTTree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool
TPRTrue positive rate
TPUTensor Processing Unit
TRPOTrust Region Policy Optimization
TSTabu Search
TSFTime Series Forest
TSPTraveling Salesman Problem
TTSText-to-Speech
UCTUpper Confidence bounds applied to Trees (Monte Carlo Tree Search variant)
UDAUnsupervised Data Augmentation
UKFUnscented Kalman Filter
ULUnsupervised learning
ULMFiTUniversal Language Model Fine-Tuning
UMAPUniform Manifold Approximation and Projection
USMUniversal Speech Model
V-NetVolumetric Convolutional neural network
VADVoice Activity Detection
VAEVariational AutoEncoder
VGGVisual Geometry Group
VHREDVariational Hierarchical Recurrent Encoder-Decoder
VISSIMA traffic simulation software (from "Verkehr In Städten
ViTVision Transformer
VLMVision-Language Model
VPNNVector Product Neural Network
VQ-VAEVector Quantized Variational Autoencoders
VQEVariational Quantum Eigensolver
VRVirtual reality
VRPVehicle Routing Problem
VUIVoice User Interface
WCSPWeighted Constraint Satisfaction Problem
WERWord Error Rate
WFSTWeighted finite-state transducer (WFST)
WGANWasserstein Generative Adversarial Network
WMAWeighted Majority Algorithm
WPEWeighted Prediction Error
XAIExplainable Artificial Intelligence
XGBoosteXtreme Gradient Boosting
XORExclusive OR (a common problem in neural networks)
YOLOYou Only Look Once
ZSLZero-Shot Learning

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