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The terms the rest keep referring back to. Read these and most AI writing stops being opaque.
Structured Outputs (Constrained Decoding)
Constrained decoding masks a language model's token distribution against a JSON schema or grammar at each step, so the output is parseable by construction.
Activation Functions
Without a non-linearity, stacked layers collapse into one matrix. How activation functions fix that, and why ReLU, GELU and SwiGLU are the defaults.
Video Generation
Video generation is an AI technology that creates moving images and scenes from text descriptions, images, or other video clips.
Attention Mechanism
Each token emits a query, key and value; dot-product scores scaled by √d become softmax weights over every other token. The cost grows as n².
Classification (CLF)
Accuracy is usually the wrong metric. What a confusion matrix, precision, recall and the decision threshold really tell you about a classifier.
Active Learning
Active learning lets a model choose which unlabelled examples to get labelled next, hitting target accuracy with far fewer labels than random labelling.
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