AI Factory Glossary

slow-fast (sf) corner,design

nFET slow pFET fast.

slow-slow (ss) corner,design

Slow process low voltage high temperature.

slowfast networks, video understanding

Separate pathways for slow and fast motion.

slurm, infrastructure

HPC workload manager.

slurry,cmp

Abrasive particles + chemicals used in CMP.

small angle x-ray scattering (saxs),small angle x-ray scattering,saxs,metrology

Characterize nanostructures.

small language model, llm architecture

Small language models provide efficiency with fewer parameters.

small outline integrated circuit, soic, packaging

Standard SOP variant.

small outline package, sop, packaging

Surface mount with gull-wing leads.

smaller-the-better, quality & reliability

Smaller-the-better characteristics should be minimized consistently.

smart cut process, substrate

Specific ion-cut method for SOI.

smart cut,substrate

SOI fabrication using hydrogen implant and splitting.

smart manufacturing,production

Integrate IoT AI and automation for intelligent fab operations.

smed, smed, manufacturing operations

Single-Minute Exchange of Die reduces setup times to single-digit minutes through methodology.

smed, smed, production

Quick changeover methodology.

smif (standard mechanical interface),smif,standard mechanical interface,automation

Sealed wafer pod system for contamination control.

smif, smif, manufacturing operations

Standard Mechanical Interface enables automated wafer transfer maintaining cleanliness.

smiles generation, smiles, chemistry ai

Generate molecular SMILES strings.

smo (source-mask optimization),smo,source-mask optimization,lithography

Co-optimize illumination source and mask pattern.

smol developer,small,coding

Smol Developer is simple AI developer agent. Generates apps.

smooth overlap of atomic positions, soap, materials science

Descriptor for atomic environments.

smoothgrad, explainable ai

Average gradients over noisy inputs.

smoothmix, data augmentation

Smooth mixing with Gaussian kernel.

smoothquant,activation,weight

SmoothQuant migrates quantization difficulty from activations to weights. Better INT8 activation quantization.

smote, smote, advanced training

Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique generates synthetic examples by interpolating between minority class instances for imbalanced data.

smote, smote, machine learning

Generate synthetic minority examples.

smote,oversample,imbalanced

SMOTE oversamples minority class. Creates synthetic examples.

smt-based verification, ai safety

Use SMT solvers to verify properties.

snail, snail, meta-learning

Attention-based meta-learning.

snapback device, design

Device with negative differential resistance.

snapmix, data augmentation

Mix using class activation maps.

snapshot ensembles,machine learning

Ensemble from single training run.

snapshot graphs, graph neural networks

Snapshot graphs represent temporal networks as sequences of static graphs at discrete time points.

snli, snli, evaluation

Textual entailment dataset.

snorkel,weak supervision,label

Snorkel enables weak supervision labeling. Labeling functions. Programmatic labels.

snowflake,data cloud,warehouse

Snowflake data warehouse now supports ML. Cortex for AI. SQL-based analytics.

so equivariant, so(3), graph neural networks

SO(3) equivariant networks maintain rotational symmetries in 3D molecular and geometric data.

soc2,iso27001,certification

SOC2 and ISO27001 certify security practices. Required by enterprise customers. Document AI-specific controls.

social media post generation,content creation

Create posts for social platforms.

social media,post,engage

Generate social media content. Platform-appropriate.

social reasoning,reasoning

Understand social interactions and norms.

social recommendation, recommendation systems

Social recommendations leverage social network connections and friend preferences.

social regularization, recommendation systems

Social regularization encourages similar users in social network to have similar representations.

soft actor-critic, sac, reinforcement learning

Off-policy maximum entropy RL.

soft bake,lithography

Bake resist after coating to remove solvent.

soft defect, failure analysis advanced

Soft defects are latent failures that manifest intermittently or under specific conditions requiring specialized dynamic fault localization techniques.

soft ip,design

RTL description of IP block.

soft landing,etch

Gentle overetch to minimize damage.

soft modules, reinforcement learning advanced

Soft modules enable compositional multi-task RL through learned routing over shared module networks.

soft moe implementation, moe

Weighted combination of experts.