AI Factory Glossary

random search,model training

Sample random hyperparameter combinations.

random search,sample,tune

Random search samples hyperparameter space. Often beats grid.

random seed management, best practices

Control randomness for reproducibility.

random signature, metrology

No clear pattern in failures.

random span length, nlp

Variable-length masked spans.

random sparsification, optimization

Randomly select gradients to send.

random synthesizer, transformer

Use random attention patterns.

random variation, design & verification

Random variations are unpredictable parameter differences from fundamental stochastic processes.

random vth variation, device physics

Statistical Vth fluctuations.

random within-die variation, manufacturing

Unpredictable WID.

random yield loss, production

Unpredictable yield loss from random defects.

random yield loss, yield enhancement

Random yield loss arises from stochastic defects distributed probabilistically across wafers.

randomized smoothing, ai safety

Provable robustness via smoothing.

ranger optimizer, optimization

Combination of RAdam and LookAhead.

raptor (recursive abstractive processing),raptor,recursive abstractive processing,rag

Build hierarchical summaries of document chunks for multi-level retrieval.

rare earth recovery, environmental & sustainability

Rare earth recovery extracts valuable lanthanides from electronic waste for reuse.

rasa,conversational,open

Rasa is open source conversational AI. NLU, dialog management.

rate limiting, llm optimization

Rate limiting restricts request frequency preventing abuse and ensuring fair access.

rate limiting,security

Restrict number of requests to prevent abuse.

rational subgroup, quality & reliability

Rational subgroups contain units produced under homogeneous conditions for within-group estimates.

ray marching, 3d vision

Render by stepping along rays.

ray marching, multimodal ai

Ray marching samples points along rays through scene accumulating color and opacity.

ray tune,distributed,hyperparameter

Ray Tune is distributed hyperparameter tuning. Many algorithms.

ray,distributed,python

Ray is distributed computing framework. Simple parallelism. Ray Train, Ray Serve for ML.

razor flip-flops, design

Flip-flops detecting timing errors.

rba, rba, environmental & sustainability

Responsible Business Alliance establishes labor rights and environmental standards for electronics supply chains.

rc delay,design

Resistance-capacitance delay in interconnects.

rca clean,clean tech

Classic two-step cleaning (SC1 then SC2) developed by RCA.

re-ranking in retrieval, rag

Refine initial retrieval results.

re-ranking, recommendation systems

Re-ranking adjusts initial recommendation lists to optimize secondary objectives like diversity novelty or fairness while maintaining relevance.

re-ranking,rag

After initial retrieval re-score documents with a more powerful model to improve relevance.

re-sampling strategies, machine learning

Adjust sampling to handle imbalance.

reachability analysis, ai safety

Compute reachable output set.

reachability analysis, reinforcement learning advanced

Reachability analysis computes safe state sets ensuring policies can always reach safe regions.

react (reasoning + acting),react,reasoning + acting,ai agent

Agent pattern where model alternates between reasoning steps and taking actions.

react prompting, prompting

Interleave reasoning and actions.

react, prompting techniques

ReAct interleaves reasoning and actions enabling language models to interact with tools.

react,reason act,agent loop

ReAct: Reason → Act → Observe loop. Model thinks, calls tool, reads result, repeats. Standard agent pattern.

reaction condition recommendation, chemistry ai

Suggest optimal reaction conditions.

reaction extraction, chemistry ai

Extract chemical reactions from text.

reaction plan, quality & reliability

Reaction plans specify actions when processes deviate from normal operation.

reaction prediction, chemistry ai

Predict products of chemical reactions.

reaction temperature,cvd

Temperature at which CVD reactions occur efficiently.

reactive ion etch lag,etch

Another term for RIE lag in high-aspect-ratio features.

reactive ion etching (sample prep),reactive ion etching,sample prep,metrology

Etch samples for analysis.

readme,documentation,generate

Generate README files. Project setup, usage examples.

readout functions, graph neural networks

Readout functions aggregate node features into graph-level representations for classification or regression tasks.

reagent selection, chemistry ai

Choose appropriate reagents for synthesis.

real-esrgan, computer vision

Practical super-resolution.

real-esrgan, multimodal ai

Real-ESRGAN uses adversarial training for practical blind super-resolution.