E (30 terms)
E-Discovery
AI-assisted review of legal documents.
Intermediate
Early Stopping
Halting training when validation performance stops improving to reduce overfitting.
Intermediate
Edge Inference
Running models locally.
Intermediate
Eigenvector
Vector whose direction remains unchanged under linear transformation.
Advanced
Embedding
A continuous vector encoding of an item (word, image, user) such that semantic similarity corresponds to geometric cl...
Intermediate
Embodied AI
AI systems that perceive and act in the physical world through sensors and actuators.
Advanced
Embodiment Hypothesis
Intelligence emerges from interaction with the physical world.
Advanced
Emergence
System-level behavior arising from interactions.
Advanced
Emergent Abilities
Capabilities that appear only beyond certain model sizes.
Intermediate
Emergent Competition
Competition arises without explicit design.
Advanced
Emergent Coordination
Coordination arising without explicit programming.
Intermediate
Empirical Risk Minimization
Minimizing average loss on training data; can overfit when data is limited or biased.
Intermediate
Encryption in Transit/At Rest
Protecting data during network transfer and while stored; essential for ML pipelines handling sensitive data.
Intermediate
Energy-Based Model
Models that define an energy landscape rather than explicit probabilities.
Intermediate
Entropy
A measure of randomness or uncertainty in a probability distribution.
Intermediate
Epoch
One complete traversal of the training dataset during training.
Intermediate
EU AI Act
European regulation classifying AI systems by risk.
Intermediate
Eval Harness
System for running consistent evaluations across tasks, versions, prompts, and model settings.
Intermediate
Existential Risk
Risk threatening humanity’s survival.
Advanced
Expectation
Average value under a distribution.
Advanced
Experiment Tracking
Logging hyperparameters, code versions, data snapshots, and results to reproduce and compare experiments.
Intermediate
Explainability
Techniques to understand model decisions (global or local), important in high-stakes and regulated settings.
Intermediate
Explainability Mandate
Requirement to provide explanations.
Intermediate
Explainability Requirement
Legal or policy requirement to explain AI decisions.
Intermediate
Explainable Credit Model
Credit models with interpretable logic.
Intermediate
Exploding Gradient
Gradients grow too large, causing divergence; mitigated by clipping, normalization, careful init.
Intermediate
Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff
Balancing learning new behaviors vs exploiting known rewards.
Intermediate
Exposure Bias
Differences between training and inference conditions.
Intermediate
Expressivity
The range of functions a model can represent.
Intermediate
Exteroception
External sensing of surroundings (vision, audio, lidar).
Advanced