AI Factory Glossary

implicit surface, multimodal ai

Implicit surfaces represent geometry through continuous functions rather than discrete meshes.

importance sampling, simulation

Focus simulation on critical cases.

impossibility detection, ai agents

Impossibility detection identifies when goals cannot be achieved triggering graceful failure.

impulse response, time series models

Impulse response functions trace effects of shocks to one variable on others over time in VAR systems.

impurity profiling, metrology

Measure impurity distribution.

in-batch negatives, rag

In-batch negatives use other batch examples as negatives for efficient training.

in-batch negatives, recommendation systems

In-batch negatives use other positive examples within training batch as negatives for efficiency.

in-context learning mechanisms, theory

How ICL works internally.

in-context learning with images,multimodal ai

Few-shot learning using image examples.

in-context learning, prompting techniques

In-context learning enables models to adapt to new tasks from examples in the prompt without parameter updates.

in-context retrieval,rag

Use model's context window as retrieval memory.

in-control process, spc

Process within statistical control.

in-line metrology,metrology

Measurements taken during processing to monitor and control.

in-memory computing,hardware

Perform computation in memory to reduce data movement.

in-place distillation, neural architecture search

In-place knowledge distillation in supernets uses larger subnetworks as teachers improving smaller network training.

in-place operations, optimization

Modify tensors without copying.

in-situ doping, process integration

In-situ doping incorporates dopants during epitaxial growth achieving uniform high-concentration regions.

in-situ doping,cvd

Add dopants during CVD for controlled doping profile.

in-situ ellipsometry, metrology

Real-time monitoring during processing.

in-situ tem, metrology

Real-time TEM during processing.

inappropriate intimacy, code ai

Classes too coupled.

inbound logistics, supply chain & logistics

Inbound logistics manages material flow from suppliers to manufacturing facilities.

inception score, is, evaluation

Evaluate generation quality.

incident response,operations

Process for handling outages and problems.

incident response,rollback,hotfix

Have incident playbooks for AI failures. Quick rollback capability. Post-incident review to prevent recurrence.

incoder,meta,infilling

InCoder is Meta code model with infilling capability. Fill in the middle.

incoming inspection, quality & reliability

Incoming inspection examines materials and components for specification compliance.

incoming quality control (iqc),incoming quality control,iqc,quality

Inspect received materials.

incomplete filling, packaging

Cavity not fully filled.

incomplete ionization, device physics

Not all dopants ionized at low temperature.

incr completion,ide,streaming

Incremental completion streams suggestions as you type. Lower latency feel.

increasing failure rate period, reliability

Wearout phase.

incremental checkpointing, infrastructure

Save only changes since last checkpoint.

incremental indexing, rag

Add documents without rebuilding.

independent component analysis, ica, data analysis

Separate mixed signals into independent sources.

index construction, rag

Build searchable index.

index updating, rag

Keep index current with new data.

indirect prompt injection,ai safety

Malicious instructions hidden in retrieved documents or tool outputs.

individual and moving range, i-mr, spc

Chart for individual measurements.

induced set attention block, isab, transformer

Efficient attention for sets.

induction head,copying,icl

Induction heads copy patterns from context. Key mechanism for in-context learning. Two-layer circuit.

induction heads, explainable ai

Circuits implementing in-context learning.

induction heater, manufacturing equipment

Induction heaters use electromagnetic fields generating heat in conductive materials.

inductive bias in vit, computer vision

Built-in assumptions vs learned patterns.

inductive crosstalk, signal & power integrity

Inductive crosstalk couples current changes between adjacent lines through mutual inductance affecting signal return paths.

inductive learning,few-shot learning

Predict without using test set information.

inductive program synthesis,code ai

Learn programs from input-output examples.

inductive reasoning,reasoning

Generalize from specific examples.

inductive transfer learning, transfer learning

No target data during training.

inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, icp-ms, metrology

Solution-based trace analysis.