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ELU
ELU (Exponential Linear Unit) is an activation function that uses an exponential curve for negative inputs, providing smoother outputs and faster learning than ReLU.
SELU
SELU (Scaled Exponential Linear Unit) is a self-normalizing activation function that automatically maintains zero mean and unit variance across layers.
Convolutional Neural Network
A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a deep learning architecture designed for processing grid-like data such as images, using learnable filters to detect spatial patterns.
Convolution
Convolution is the mathematical operation at the core of CNNs, where a small filter slides across input data to produce a feature map that highlights detected patterns.
Kernel
A kernel (or filter) in a CNN is a small matrix of learnable weights that slides across input data to detect specific features like edges or textures.
Feature Map
A feature map is the output produced by applying a convolutional filter to an input, representing where specific features are detected across the spatial dimensions.
Receptive Field
The receptive field is the region of the input that influences a particular neuron in a CNN, growing larger in deeper layers as features are combined.
Stride
Stride is the step size by which a convolutional filter moves across the input, controlling the spatial dimensions of the output feature map.
Padding
Padding adds extra values (typically zeros) around the edges of input data before convolution, controlling the output size and preserving spatial information at borders.
Pooling
Pooling is a downsampling operation in CNNs that reduces the spatial dimensions of feature maps by aggregating values in local regions.
Max Pooling
Max pooling is a downsampling technique that selects the maximum value from each local region of a feature map, preserving the most prominent features.
ResNet
ResNet (Residual Network) is a deep CNN architecture that uses skip connections to enable training of very deep networks by allowing gradients to flow through shortcut paths.
Recurrent Neural Network
A recurrent neural network (RNN) is a neural network designed for sequential data, maintaining a hidden state that captures information from previous time steps.
LSTM
LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) is an RNN architecture that uses gating mechanisms to selectively remember and forget information over long sequences.
GRU
GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) is a simplified RNN variant that uses two gates to control information flow, offering similar performance to LSTM with fewer parameters.
Hidden State
A hidden state is the internal memory vector maintained by a recurrent neural network that encodes information about previous elements in a sequence.
Sequence-to-Sequence
Sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) is a neural network architecture that maps an input sequence to an output sequence, enabling tasks like translation and summarization.
Encoder-Decoder
Encoder-decoder is a neural network architecture pattern where an encoder compresses input into a representation and a decoder generates output from that representation.
Teacher Forcing
Teacher forcing is a training technique for sequence models where the ground truth output from the previous step is fed as input to the next step, instead of the model prediction.
Bidirectional RNN
A bidirectional RNN processes a sequence in both forward and backward directions, capturing context from both past and future elements at each position.
Transformer
The transformer is a neural network architecture based on self-attention that processes all positions in a sequence simultaneously, powering modern language models and AI systems.
Self-Attention
Self-attention is a mechanism where each element in a sequence computes attention weights over all other elements, capturing contextual relationships regardless of distance.
Multi-Head Attention
Multi-head attention runs multiple self-attention operations in parallel, allowing the model to jointly attend to information from different representation subspaces.
Positional Encoding
Positional encoding adds information about the position of each element in a sequence to its representation, since self-attention has no inherent notion of order.
Feed-Forward Network
The feed-forward network in a transformer is a two-layer MLP applied independently to each position after attention, expanding and compressing the representation.
Layer Normalization
Layer normalization is a technique that normalizes the inputs across the feature dimension for each individual example, stabilizing and accelerating neural network training.
Residual Connection
A residual connection adds the input of a layer directly to its output, creating a shortcut path that helps gradients flow through deep networks.
Causal Attention
Causal attention is a masked form of self-attention that prevents each position from attending to future positions, ensuring autoregressive generation.
Cross-Attention
Cross-attention is an attention mechanism where queries come from one sequence and keys and values come from a different sequence, enabling information transfer between modalities.
Rotary Position Embedding
Rotary position embedding (RoPE) encodes position information by rotating query and key vectors in pairs of dimensions, enabling relative position awareness.
Flash Attention
Flash Attention is an optimized attention algorithm that reduces memory usage and increases speed by computing attention in tiles without materializing the full attention matrix.
Grouped-Query Attention
Grouped-query attention shares key and value heads across multiple query heads, reducing memory bandwidth during inference while preserving most of multi-head attention quality.
Backpropagation
Backpropagation is the algorithm that computes gradients of the loss function with respect to each parameter by propagating error signals backward through the network.
Forward Pass
A forward pass is the computation that takes input data through all layers of a neural network to produce predictions and a loss value.
Backward Pass
A backward pass propagates the loss gradient from the output back through each layer, computing the gradient of the loss with respect to every parameter.
Vanishing Gradient
The vanishing gradient problem occurs when gradients become exponentially smaller as they propagate backward through many layers, preventing early layers from learning.
Exploding Gradient
The exploding gradient problem occurs when gradients grow exponentially during backpropagation, causing unstable training with wildly oscillating or diverging parameter updates.
Gradient Clipping
Gradient clipping limits the magnitude of gradients during training to prevent exploding gradients and stabilize the optimization process.
Mixed-Precision Training
Mixed-precision training uses a combination of 16-bit and 32-bit floating-point numbers to reduce memory usage and increase training speed without sacrificing model quality.
Distributed Training
Distributed training spreads the computation of training a neural network across multiple GPUs or machines to reduce training time and handle models too large for a single device.
Data Parallelism
Data parallelism is a distributed training strategy that replicates the model on each GPU and partitions the training data, averaging gradients across all replicas.
Weight Initialization
Weight initialization sets the starting values of neural network parameters before training, with proper initialization being critical for stable gradient flow and convergence.
Xavier Initialization
Xavier initialization sets weights by sampling from a distribution scaled by the number of input and output neurons, preserving signal variance through layers with symmetric activations.
He Initialization
He initialization scales initial weights by 2/fan_in to account for ReLU activations zeroing out half the inputs, enabling stable training of deep ReLU networks.
Dropout
Dropout is a regularization technique that randomly deactivates a fraction of neurons during each training step, preventing co-adaptation and reducing overfitting.
Weight Decay
Weight decay is a regularization technique that adds a penalty proportional to the magnitude of weights to the loss function, discouraging large weight values.
Label Smoothing
Label smoothing is a regularization technique that replaces hard one-hot target labels with soft labels that distribute a small probability mass to incorrect classes.
Mixup
Mixup is a data augmentation and regularization technique that trains on convex combinations of pairs of training examples and their labels.
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