AI Factory Glossary

asp (average selling price),asp,average selling price,industry

Average price per chip affects profitability.

asp, asp, business & strategy

Average Selling Price represents typical per-unit revenue across product mix.

aspect ratio (etch),aspect ratio,etch

Ratio of feature depth to width affects etch difficulty.

aspect ratio trench, process integration

High aspect ratio trenches and vias require advanced deposition techniques ensuring complete bottom coverage without void formation.

aspect-based sentiment, nlp

Sentiment toward specific aspects.

aspect-based sentiment,nlp

Identify sentiment toward specific aspects.

assembly yield,production

Percentage surviving packaging.

assertion generation, code ai

Generate test assertions.

assignable cause,spc

Identifiable reason for process variation.

assistant message, prompting

Model's response.

assistant message,response,output

Assistant message is model output. Follows user input. May include reasoning, code, structured data.

asymmetric loss functions, machine learning

Different penalties for different errors.

asymmetric loss, quality & reliability

Asymmetric loss functions penalize deviations differently above and below target.

async generation, llm optimization

Asynchronous generation handles multiple requests concurrently maximizing throughput.

async,await,concurrency

Async/await enables concurrent I/O without threads. Event loop. Python asyncio, JavaScript promises.

asynchronous checkpointing, infrastructure

Save state without blocking training.

asynchronous design, design

Clock-free circuit design.

asynchronous execution, infrastructure

Non-blocking GPU operations.

asynchronous federated learning, federated learning

Allow asynchronous updates.

at-speed test, advanced test & probe

At-speed testing operates devices at full rated frequency detecting timing failures missed by slower testing.

at-speed testing,testing

Test at operational frequency.

ate (automatic test equipment),ate,automatic test equipment,testing

High-speed testers for production testing.

ate, ate, advanced test & probe

Automated Test Equipment executes test programs coordinating instruments timing and data collection for high-throughput semiconductor testing.

atlas,foundation model

Retrieval-augmented model for knowledge-intensive tasks.

atmospheric robot,automation

Robot that operates in normal atmosphere or N2 environment.

atom probe tomography, apt, metrology

3D atomic-scale composition analysis.

atomic environment descriptors, materials science

Local atomic neighborhood features.

atomic force microscopy for roughness, metrology

Measure roughness at atomic scale.

atpg, atpg, advanced test & probe

Automatic Test Pattern Generation algorithmically creates test vectors to detect specific faults or maximize fault coverage in digital circuits.

attention as database query, theory

Attention mechanism as retrieval.

attention bias addition, optimization

Add positional bias efficiently.

attention distance analysis, explainable ai

Study how far attention reaches.

attention flow, explainable ai

Trace attention patterns through network.

attention flow, interpretability

Attention flow tracks information propagation through attention mechanisms across layers.

attention forecasting, time series models

Attention mechanisms in time series weight historical values adaptively for improved forecasting accuracy.

attention head roles, explainable ai

Different functions of attention heads.

attention head scaling, transformer

Scale attention by head dimension.

attention mask,transformer

Binary mask indicating which tokens to attend to vs ignore (for padding).

attention pooling graph, graph neural networks

Attention-based graph pooling learns soft cluster assignments through self-attention over node features.

attention rollout in vit, explainable ai

Aggregate attention across layers.

attention rollout, explainable ai

Aggregate attention across layers for interpretability.

attention rollout, interpretability

Attention rollout computes effective attention by multiplying attention weights across transformer layers.

attention sink, llm architecture

Keep first tokens for stable attention.

attention transfer, model compression

Transfer attention maps from teacher.

attention visualization in defect detection, data analysis

See what model focuses on.

attention visualization in vit, explainable ai

Visualize what model attends to.

attention visualization, interpretability

Attention visualization displays learned attention weights revealing which inputs influence outputs.

attention visualization,ai safety

Inspect attention weights to see what the model focuses on.

attention-based explain, recommendation systems

Attention-based explanations visualize which user history items or features influenced specific recommendations.

attention-based fusion, multimodal ai

Use attention to weight modalities.