AI Factory Glossary

beyond accuracy, recommendation systems

Beyond-accuracy objectives include diversity novelty serendipity and coverage in recommendation systems.

beyond cmos, research

Technologies after conventional transistors.

bf16,bfloat16,google

BF16 has same exponent as FP32, less precision. More stable than FP16. Preferred for training.

bfloat16, bf16, optimization

16-bit floating point format.

bga ball diameter, bga, packaging

Size of solder balls.

bga ball pitch, bga, packaging

Spacing between balls.

bga x-ray, bga, failure analysis advanced

BGA X-ray inspection detects solder joint defects like voids bridges and insufficient wetting in ball grid array packages.

bi-encoder retrieval, rag

Encode query and documents separately.

bi-encoder, rag

Bi-encoders separately encode queries and documents for efficient similarity search.

bi-encoder,rag

Separate encoders for query and document.

bias amplification, fairness

Models exaggerating biases in data.

bias benchmarks, evaluation

Datasets for measuring bias.

bias evaluation, evaluation

Bias evaluation measures unfair treatment across demographic groups.

bias measurement, quality & reliability

Measurement bias is systematic offset between measured and true values.

bias mitigation strategies, fairness

Reduce bias in models.

bias mitigation,ai safety

Techniques to reduce unfair biases in model training data or outputs.

bias power,etch

RF power applied to wafer electrode to control ion energy.

bias, metrology

Systematic error in measurement.

biased hast, reliability

HAST with voltage applied.

bidirectional attention,transformer

Each token can attend to all other tokens (BERT-style).

bidirectional language modeling, foundation model

Predict from both directions.

big-bench, evaluation

Diverse challenging tasks.

big-bench, evaluation

BIG-Bench contains diverse tasks testing capabilities beyond current models.

big-bench,evaluation

Diverse collection of over 200 challenging tasks.

bigbird attention, llm architecture

Sparse attention with random global and local.

bigbird attention, llm optimization

BigBird uses sparse attention with local sliding window random and global connections.

bigbird,foundation model

Sparse attention with local global and random connections.

bignas, neural architecture search

BigNAS scales once-for-all training to extremely large search spaces using improved sampling strategies.

bigvgan, audio & speech

BigVGAN uses large generators with anti-aliased periodic activation for high-fidelity neural vocoding.

bilstm-crf, structured prediction

BiLSTM-CRF combines bidirectional LSTMs with conditional random fields for sequence labeling with structured output constraints.

bin color code, manufacturing operations

Bin color codes assign distinct colors to different test results for visual wafer map interpretation.

bin map analysis, yield enhancement

Bin map analysis examines spatial patterns in die sort categories revealing process and design issues.

bin sort, advanced test & probe

Bin sorting classifies die into categories based on parametric measurements enabling product grading and yield reporting.

bin split,production

Breakdown of dies by performance bins.

binarized neural networks (bnn),binarized neural networks,bnn,model optimization

Extreme quantization to 1-bit.

binary collision approximation, simulation

Simplified ion implant simulation.

binary embeddings, rag

Binary embeddings use binary vectors enabling extremely fast similarity computation.

binary networks, model optimization

Binary networks constrain weights and activations to binary values enabling extreme compression.

binary neural networks,model optimization

Weights and activations are binary.

binding affinity prediction, healthcare ai

Predict strength of molecular binding.

binning by performance, manufacturing

Sort chips into speed grades.

binning,discretize,bucket

Binning converts continuous to categorical. Equal-width or equal-frequency.

binning,manufacturing

Sort chips by performance speed power into different grades.

bioasq, evaluation

Biomedical semantic QA.

biofilter, environmental & sustainability

Biofilters use microorganisms to biologically degrade VOCs and odorous compounds.

biogpt,microsoft,biomedical

BioGPT is Microsoft biomedical model. Literature mining.

biomedical text mining,healthcare ai

Extract knowledge from medical literature.

biplot, manufacturing operations

Biplots simultaneously display observations and variables in reduced dimensional space.

bist (built-in self-test),bist,built-in self-test,design

On-chip test circuitry.

bist, bist, advanced test & probe

Built-In Self-Test incorporates on-chip test circuitry allowing devices to generate test patterns and evaluate responses without external equipment.