Glossary

A

• A2A (Agent-to-Agent)
• Abstention
• Adaptive RAG
• Agent Evaluation
• Agent Skills
• Agentic AI
• Agentic RAG
• AI Benchmark
• AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
• AI Governance
• Anthropomorphism in AI
• ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition)
• Attention Mechanism
• Autoregressive Model

B

• BDI Architecture (Belief-Desire-Intention)
• BERT
• Bi-Encoder
• Bias Audit
• BM25

C

• CAG (Cache-Augmented Generation)
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT)
• Chunking
• ColBERT
• Confidence Calibration
• Context Engineering
• Context Injection
• Context Layer
• Context Window
• Coroutine
• Cross-Encoder

D

• Data Drift
• Data Lineage and Provenance
• Dense Retrieval

E

• Embeddings
• Entity Resolution
• Entropy
• Evals (AI System Evaluations)
• Evaluation Regression
• Expert Systems

F

• Faithfulness
• Fine-Tuning
• Fleet of Agents
• Fuzzy Logic

G

• GraphRAG
• Grokking
• Ground Truth
• Grounding
• Grouped-Query Attention (GQA)
• Guardrails

H

• Hallucination
• Harness
• Human-in-Command (HIC)
• Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
• Human-on-the-Loop (HOTL)
• Hybrid Search

I

• In-Context Learning (ICL)
• Induction Heads
• Interrupts

K

• Knowledge Distillation
• Knowledge Graph
• KV Cache (Key-Value Cache)

L

• Latent Space
• LLM-as-judge
• LLMOps
• Log Probability (logprob)
• Long-Term Memory
• Loop Engineering

M

• MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Meta-evaluation
• Model Drift
• Model Robustness
• Model Router
• Multimodal AI

N

• Neurosymbolic AI
• NLP Evaluation Metrics

O

• Ontology
• Orchestration
• Over-instruction

P

• Pass@k vs. Pass^k
• Perplexity
• Poisoning (Data Poisoning)
• Policy as Code
• Pre-training
• Prompt Engineering
• Prompt Injection

Q

• Quality Gate for AI Systems
• Quantization
• Query Decomposition
• Query Rewriting

R

• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
• RAG Evaluation
• ReAct (Reasoning and Acting)
• Reasoning in AI
• Reranking

S

• Semantic Firewall
• Semantic Layer
• Semantic Search
• Short-Term Memory
• Speech-to-Text
• State Machine
• Steering (Interventions)
• Structured Outputs
• Swarm Architecture
• Synthetic Data

T

• Temperature
• Text-to-Speech
• Throughput
• Token
• Tool Calling
• Top-K
• Top-P (Nucleus Sampling)
• Trace
• Transformer

V

• Vector Database
• Vector Search

Z

• Zero-Shot, One-Shot, and Few-Shot Prompting