AI Factory Glossary

surface roughness after transfer, substrate

Smoothness of transferred layer.

surface roughness measurement, metrology

Quantify surface irregularities (Ra Rq Rz).

surface roughness scattering, device physics

Scattering at rough interfaces.

surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy, sers, metrology

Enhanced Raman using nanostructures.

susceptor,cvd

Heated platform holding wafer in CVD reactor.

sustain phase, quality & reliability

Sustain phase maintains improvements preventing reversion to old methods.

sustain, manufacturing operations

Sustain maintains discipline continuing improvement practices long-term.

sustainability initiatives,facility

Programs to reduce energy water and chemical usage.

sustainable materials, environmental & sustainability

Sustainable materials for semiconductor manufacturing consider environmental impact recyclability and supply chain sustainability.

sustainable sourcing, environmental & sustainability

Sustainable sourcing selects suppliers based on environmental and social responsibility criteria.

svamp, svamp, evaluation

Math word problem variations.

svar, svar, time series models

Structural Vector Autoregression imposes causal ordering on VAR models for policy analysis and forecasting.

svcca, svcca, explainable ai

Compare layer representations.

svd compression, svd, model optimization

Singular value decomposition compression represents matrices through truncated SVD.

svd++, svd++, recommendation systems

SVD++ extends singular value decomposition for collaborative filtering by incorporating implicit feedback and user/item biases.

svm,support vector,kernel

SVM finds optimal hyperplane. Kernel trick for nonlinear.

swa-gaussian, swag, optimization

Capture uncertainty with SWA.

swag, swag, evaluation

Grounded commonsense inference.

swarm intelligence,multi-agent

Many simple agents work together emergently to solve complex problems.

swav, self-supervised learning

Clustering-based self-supervised learning.

swe-bench, ai agents

SWE-Bench assesses agents on real-world software engineering tasks from GitHub.

swiglu activation, neural architecture

Swish-gated linear unit activation.

swin transformer,computer vision

Hierarchical vision transformer with shifted windows.

swinir, computer vision

Transformer-based super-resolution.

swinir, multimodal ai

SwinIR applies Swin Transformer to image restoration tasks including super-resolution.

swish, neural architecture

Smooth activation x*sigmoid(x).

switch transformer, llm architecture

Switch Transformer uses simplified routing to single expert per token.

switch transformer,model architecture

Sparse MoE model with one expert per token.

switchable normalization, neural architecture

Learn to select best normalization.

switching state space, time series models

Switching state space models allow dynamics to change between discrete regimes capturing non-stationary behavior.

symbolic execution,software engineering

Execute program symbolically to explore paths.

symbolic mathematics,reasoning

Manipulate mathematical expressions symbolically.

symbolic reasoning,reasoning

Translate to formal logic then reason.

symmetric vs asymmetric quantization,model optimization

Quantization with/without zero-point offset.

symmetry-preserving networks, scientific ml

Respect symmetries like rotation or translation.

symplectic neural networks, scientific ml

Preserve Hamiltonian structure in dynamics.

symptom extraction, healthcare ai

Identify symptoms from text.

synchronized attention, audio & speech

Synchronized attention jointly attends to audio and visual features at corresponding time steps.

synchronized multimodal representations, multimodal ai

Align representations across modalities.

synchronizer, design & verification

Synchronizers safely transfer signals across clock domains reducing metastability probability.

synchrotron x-ray techniques, metrology

Use synchrotron for advanced X-ray analysis.

synflow proxy, neural architecture search

Synflow zero-cost proxy scores architectures using synaptic flow capturing trainability without weight updates.

syntactic heads, explainable ai

Encode grammatical structure.

synthesis,netlist,gate

Synthesis converts RTL to gate-level netlist. Maps logic to standard cells. First step toward physical chip.

synthesizer, llm architecture

Synthesizer learns attention weights directly without computing query-key products.

synthesizer, transformer

Generate attention without queries and keys.

synthetic accessibility, chemistry ai

Estimate ease of chemical synthesis.

synthetic data generation for privacy,privacy

Generate artificial data preserving privacy.

synthetic data generation,data augmentation

Create artificial training data using generative models.

synthetic data, training techniques

Synthetic data artificially generates training examples preserving statistical properties.