Azure AI Terms 01 Flashcards
CLU
Conversational language understanding. A feature in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.
CNN
Convolutional neural network. A deep learning technique in AI used for image classification.
GPT-3
Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3.
LUIS
Language Understanding Service.
MAE
Mean absolute error. When evaluating machine learning regression models, this measures how close the predictions are to the actual vaules; lower is better.
mAP
Mean Average Precision. In AI classification, an overall metric that takes into account both precision and recall across all classes.
MIND
Microsoft News Dataset. A large-scale dataset for news recommendation research that’s available in Azure Open Datasets.
MLOps
Machine Learning Operations. The Machine Learning analog of DevOps, as used in Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML).
MRF
Markov Random Field. For our purposes a technique sometimes used in computer vision and machine learning.
MZOE
Mean zero one error. When evaluating machine learning regression models, 1 if the prediction was correct, otherwise 0.
NER
Named entity recognition. A feature in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.
NLU
Natural language understanding.
NMT
Neural machine translation. The model used by Azure Translator.
R-squared or R2
Coefficient of determination. When evaluating machine learning regression models, a measure of the variance from the mean in its predictions; the closer to 1, the better the model is performing.
RAE
Relative absolute error. When evaluating machine learning regression models, the relative absolute distance between expected and actual values; lower is better.
RMSE
Root mean squared error. When evaluating machine learning regression models, the square root of the average squared distance between the actual and the predicted values; lower is better.
RSE
Relative squared error. When evaluating machine learning regression models, the total squared error of the predicted values by dividing by the total squared error of the actual values; lower is better.
SACH
Structured Analysis of Competing Hypotheses.
AI agent
Synonym for bot.
AI enrichment
Embedded image and natural language processing in an AI knowledge mining pipeline that extracts text and information from content that can’t otherwise be indexed for full text search.
Anomaly detection
Synonym for outlier detection.
Attached Compute
In Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML), links to existing Azure compute resources, such as Virtual Machines or Azure Databricks clusters.
AutoML
The automated machine learning process in Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML).
Bot
Synonym for AI agent.
Classification
A type of supervised machine learning that predicts categories or classes.
Coefficient of determination (R-squared or R2)
When evaluating machine learning regression models, a measure of the variance from the mean in its predictions; the closer to 1, the better the model is performing.
Compute Cluster
In Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML), a scalable cluster of virtual machines for training the model and running experiments.
Compute Instance
In Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML), a development virtual machine used to process data and build the model.
Conversational AI
The process of building AI agents to take part in conversations with humans, commonly done with chatbots. See Azure Conversational Language Understanding.
Conversational language understanding (CLU)
A feature in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.
Convolutional neural network (CNN)
A deep learning technique in AI used for image classification.
Data asset
In Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML), the data for model training and other operations.
Entity
In Azure Cognitive Service for Language, the item to which the utterance refers. For example, if the utterance is “Turn on the light”, the intent is something like ‘‘TurnOn’’ and the entity is the light.
Entity linking
In Azure Cognitive Service for Language, the process of identifying and disambiguating the entities found in a text.
Face detection
The process of identifying regions of an image that contain a human face, typically by returning bounding box coordinates. Contrast with facial analysis which identifies facial landmarks like nose and eyes, and facial recognition which identifies known individuals.
Facial analysis
The process of identifying facial landmarks like nose and eyes. Contrast with face detection which identifies regions of an image that contain faces, and facial recognition which identifies known individuals.
Facial recognition
The process of identifying known individuals from their facial features, based on multiple images of that individual which have already been classified. Contrast with face detection which identifies regions of an image that contain faces, and facial analysis which identifies facial landmarks like nose and eyes.
Feature engineering
In machine learning, the process of creating new features from raw data to increase the predictive power of the model.
Forecast
In machine learning, a synonym for prediction.
Image classification
A machine learning based form of computer vision in which a model is trained to categorize images based on the primary subject matter they contain. Contrast with object detection which classifies individual objects in the image.