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Knowledge Distillation
Knowledge distillation trains a smaller student model to mimic the output distribution of a larger teacher model, transferring learned knowledge into a more efficient architecture.
Model Pruning
Model pruning removes unnecessary weights or neurons from a trained neural network to reduce its size and computational cost while preserving accuracy.
Quantization
Quantization reduces the precision of neural network weights and activations from 32-bit or 16-bit floating point to lower-bit representations, reducing memory and accelerating inference.
Stochastic Depth
Stochastic depth is a regularization technique that randomly skips entire layers during training, effectively training an ensemble of networks with different depths.
Generative Adversarial Network
A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a framework where two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, compete against each other to produce realistic synthetic data.
Generator
The generator is the neural network in a GAN that creates synthetic data from random noise, learning to produce outputs indistinguishable from real data.
Discriminator
The discriminator is the neural network in a GAN that classifies inputs as real or fake, providing the training signal that guides the generator to improve.
Mode Collapse
Mode collapse is a GAN training failure where the generator produces only a limited variety of outputs, failing to capture the full diversity of the real data distribution.
Wasserstein GAN
Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) replaces the standard GAN loss with the Wasserstein distance, providing smoother gradients that stabilize training and reduce mode collapse.
StyleGAN
StyleGAN is a GAN architecture that uses a style-based generator with adaptive instance normalization, enabling fine-grained control over generated image attributes at different scales.
Conditional GAN
A conditional GAN extends the standard GAN by providing additional information like class labels to both the generator and discriminator, enabling controlled generation.
Adversarial Training
Adversarial training improves model robustness by including adversarial examples, inputs intentionally crafted to fool the model, in the training process.
Diffusion Model
A diffusion model is a generative model that learns to create data by reversing a gradual noise-adding process, producing high-quality samples through iterative denoising.
DDPM
DDPM (Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model) is the foundational framework for diffusion models, defining the forward noising process and the learned reverse denoising process.
Noise Schedule
A noise schedule defines how noise is added over the diffusion process steps, controlling the rate at which data is corrupted and determining the generation quality.
Classifier-Free Guidance
Classifier-free guidance is a technique that improves conditional generation quality by combining conditional and unconditional model predictions, amplifying the effect of the conditioning signal.
Latent Diffusion
Latent diffusion performs the diffusion process in a compressed latent space rather than pixel space, dramatically reducing computational cost while maintaining generation quality.
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion is an open-source latent diffusion model for text-to-image generation that operates in compressed latent space with classifier-free guidance for prompt adherence.
Denoising
Denoising is the process of removing noise from corrupted data, serving as the core mechanism in diffusion models where a neural network learns to reverse the noise-addition process.
Flow Matching
Flow matching is a generative modeling framework that learns a continuous flow from noise to data using optimal transport paths, offering simpler training than traditional diffusion models.
Batch Normalization
Batch normalization normalizes activations across the batch dimension for each feature, stabilizing training and enabling higher learning rates in deep neural networks.
Instance Normalization
Instance normalization normalizes each individual feature map of each individual example independently, making it particularly effective for style transfer and image generation.
Group Normalization
Group normalization divides feature channels into groups and normalizes within each group independently, providing stable normalization regardless of batch size.
RMS Normalization
RMS normalization normalizes activations by dividing by the root mean square of the values, omitting the mean subtraction step for improved computational efficiency.
Weight Normalization
Weight normalization reparameterizes weight vectors by decoupling their magnitude and direction, simplifying optimization without depending on batch or layer statistics.
Spectral Normalization
Spectral normalization constrains the spectral norm (largest singular value) of weight matrices to one, stabilizing GAN training by enforcing a Lipschitz constraint on the discriminator.
Adaptive Normalization
Adaptive normalization dynamically adjusts normalization parameters based on external conditioning information, enabling controlled generation in models like StyleGAN.
LeNet
LeNet is one of the earliest convolutional neural networks, designed for handwritten digit recognition and establishing the basic CNN architecture pattern.
AlexNet
AlexNet is the deep CNN that won ImageNet 2012, sparking the modern deep learning revolution by demonstrating the power of GPU-trained deep networks.
VGGNet
VGGNet demonstrated that using very small 3x3 convolution filters in a deep architecture achieves excellent image recognition performance.
ResNet-50
ResNet-50 is a 50-layer deep residual network that uses skip connections to enable training of very deep networks without degradation.
DenseNet
DenseNet connects every layer to every other layer in a feed-forward fashion, enabling maximum feature reuse and reducing the number of parameters needed.
MobileNet
MobileNet is a family of efficient CNNs using depthwise separable convolutions to achieve fast inference on mobile and edge devices.
EfficientNet
EfficientNet uses compound scaling to uniformly scale network depth, width, and resolution, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy with fewer parameters.
ConvNeXt
ConvNeXt modernizes the standard CNN by incorporating design choices from transformers, achieving competitive performance with pure convolutions.
Vision Transformer
The Vision Transformer (ViT) applies the transformer architecture directly to image patches, achieving competitive image classification without convolutions.
Swin Transformer
Swin Transformer computes self-attention within shifted windows, enabling hierarchical feature maps and linear scaling with image size.
Mamba
Mamba is a selective state space model that achieves linear-time sequence modeling with content-dependent selection, rivaling transformers in quality.
RWKV
RWKV combines the parallelizable training of transformers with the efficient recurrent inference of RNNs, achieving linear complexity.
State Space Model
State space models are sequence models based on continuous linear dynamical systems, offering efficient alternatives to transformers for long sequences.
Depthwise Separable Convolution
Depthwise separable convolution factors a standard convolution into a depthwise and a pointwise step, reducing computation by 8-9x.
Gradient Accumulation
Gradient accumulation simulates large batch sizes by accumulating gradients over multiple forward-backward passes before updating weights.
Gradient Checkpointing
Gradient checkpointing trades computation for memory by recomputing intermediate activations during the backward pass instead of storing them.
CutMix
CutMix replaces a rectangular patch of one training image with a patch from another, mixing labels proportionally to the area.
Consistency Model
Consistency models enable single-step image generation by learning to map any point on the diffusion trajectory directly to the clean image.
xLSTM
xLSTM (Extended Long Short-Term Memory) is a modern recurrent architecture that extends classical LSTM with exponential gating and matrix memory cells to match transformer performance.
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) are neural networks where learnable activation functions are placed on edges rather than fixed functions on nodes, inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem.
DINOv2
DINOv2 is a self-supervised vision transformer from Meta AI that produces universal visual features without labels, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse visual tasks.
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