AI Factory Glossary

fingerprinting models, security

Unique identifiers in model behavior.

finite capacity scheduling, supply chain & logistics

Finite capacity scheduling respects resource constraints ensuring realistic achievable schedules.

fire (functional interpolation for relative encoding),fire,functional interpolation for relative encoding,transformer

Advanced position encoding method.

firebase,backend,google

Firebase is Google backend platform. Auth, database, hosting.

first article inspection, quality & reliability

First article inspection thoroughly evaluates initial production units verifying process capability.

first pass yield (fpy),first pass yield,fpy,production

Percentage passing without rework.

first pass yield improvement, fpy, production

Increase yield without rework.

first time yield, quality & reliability

First-time yield measures percentage passing without rework reflecting true process capability.

first wafer effect, production

Performance difference after maintenance.

first-in-first-out, fifo, operations

Process in arrival order.

fishbone diagram, quality & reliability

Fishbone diagrams organize potential causes into categories for systematic investigation.

fishbone diagram,quality

Cause-and-effect analysis tool.

fisher exact test, quality & reliability

Fisher exact test evaluates independence in small contingency tables.

fisher information pruning, model optimization

Fisher information pruning estimates parameter importance using Fisher information matrix.

fisher-weighted averaging, model merging

Weight averaging by Fisher information.

fism, fism, recommendation systems

Factored Item Similarity Models decompose item similarities into latent factors for scalable item-based collaborative filtering.

fit rate, fit, business & standards

Failures in Time rate expresses failures per billion device-hours.

five whys, quality & reliability

Five whys technique repeatedly asks why to drill down to root causes.

fix effectiveness factor, reliability

Impact of corrective actions.

fixed attention patterns, transformer

Pre-defined sparse attention structure.

fixed-length chunking, rag

Split at fixed size.

fixed-point arithmetic,optimization

Replace floating-point with fixed-point.

fixed-time life testing, reliability

Test for specified duration.

fixmatch, advanced training

FixMatch combines consistency regularization with pseudo-labeling using strong augmentation and confidence thresholding for semi-supervised learning.

fixmatch, semi-supervised learning

Strong augmentation with pseudo-labels.

fixture generation, code ai

Create test fixtures automatically.

fixup initialization, optimization

Initialize to train deep nets without normalization.

flame graph,cpu,visualization

Flame graphs visualize CPU time by function. Stack traces over time. Find hot spots.

flame retardant in emc, packaging

Meet flammability standards.

flamingo,multimodal ai

Few-shot vision-language model.

flan-t5,foundation model

T5 model fine-tuned on many instruction tasks.

flan, flan, fine-tuning

Instruction tuning method.

flan, flan, training techniques

Finetuned Language Net scales instruction tuning across many tasks and templates.

flash anneal, process integration

Flash annealing uses high-intensity light pulses for rapid surface heating enabling advanced junction engineering.

flash anneal,implant

Millisecond anneal using intense light pulse.

flash attention,memory efficient

FlashAttention fuses attention into one kernel, reduces memory from O(n²) to O(n), enables longer contexts on same GPU.

flash attention,memory efficient

FlashAttention computes attention without materializing full matrix. 2-4x faster, much less memory.

flash attention,transformer

Optimized attention algorithm that reduces memory usage and speeds up training/inference.

flashattention implementation, optimization

Highly optimized attention.

flashattention-2,optimization

Improved version with better parallelism and speed.

flashcard,memory,spaced

Generate flashcards for learning. Spaced repetition.

flashinfer,deployment

Optimized kernels for LLM inference on GPUs.

flask,python,simple

Flask is simple Python web framework. Flexible, minimal. Good for quick APIs.

flat index, rag

Brute-force exact search.

flat minima, theory

Optima with low curvature generalize better.

flax,haiku,jax framework

Flax and Haiku are neural network libraries for JAX. Functional style. Google ecosystem.

fleet management, production

Manage multiple similar tools.

fleiss' kappa,evaluation

Kappa for more than two annotators.

flex testing, failure analysis advanced

Flex testing applies board bending to evaluate solder joint robustness under mechanical strain.

flexmatch, semi-supervised learning

Adaptive pseudo-labeling thresholds.