Machine Learning Acronyms

Acronyms	Description	Sort Term
API	Application Programming Interface	API
AE	Auto encoder	AE
AD	Automatic differentiation	AD
ARD	Automatic Relevance Determination	ARD
ASR	Automatic Speech Recognition	ASR
BPTT	Back propagation through time	BPTT
BPTS	Backpropagation through structure	BPTS
BNN	Binary Neural Net	NN
COCO	Common Objects in Context [Image Library]	COCO
CPPN	Compositional Pattern-Producing Network	CPPN
CTC	connectionist temporal classification	CTC
CNN	Convolutional Neural network	NN
DBN	Deep Belief Network	DBN
DCGAN	deep convolutional generative adversarial networks	GAN
DNN	Deep Neural Network	NN
EBM	Energy Based Model	EBM
ESP	Enforced SubPopulations	ESP
ELU	Exponential Linear Unit	LU
GRU	Gated Recurrent Unit	GRU
GMM	Gaussian Mixture Model	GMM
GAN	Generative Adversarial Network	GAN
GA	Genetic algorithm	GA
HTM	Heirarchal temporal memory	HTM
HMM	Hidden Markov Model	HMM
HAM	Hierarchical Attentive Memory	HAM
KNN	k-Nearest Neighbors	KNN
LReLU	Leaky ReLU	LU
LTU	Linear Threshold Unit	LTU
LSTM	Long short-term memory	LSTM
MCMC	Markov chain Monte Carlo	MCMC
MDP	Markov Decision Processes	MDP
MNIST	Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (database used a lot in ML)	MNIST
MLP	Multi-layer Perceptrons	MLP
NLP	Natural Language Processing	NLP
NMT	neural machine translation	NMT
NTM	Neural Turing Machine	NTM
NE	NeuroEvolution	NE
NEAT	NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies	NEAT
OLS	Ordinary Least Squares Regression	OLS
PReLU	Paramaterized ReLU	LU
PCA	Principal component analysis	PCA
PAC-MDP	Probably Approximately Correct in Markov Decision Processes	MDP
RTRL	Real Time Recurrent Learning	RTRL
ReLU	Rectified Linear Unit	LU
RNN	Recurrent Neural Network	NN
RNTN	Recursive Neural Tensor Network	RNTN
RL	Reinforcement Learning	RL
RVM	Relevance Vector Machine	RVM
ResNet	Residual Neural Network	NN
RProp	resilient backpropagation	RProp
RBM	Restricted Boltzmann Machines	RBM
SIFT	Scale-Invariant Feature Transform	SIFT
SRN	Simple Recurrent Network	SRN
SVD	singular value decomposition	SVD
SGD	Stochastic Gradient Descent	SGD
SVM	Support Vector Machine	SVM
SANE	Symbiotic Adaptive NeuroEvolution	SANE
TF	TensorFlow	TF
TFIDF	Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency	TFIDF
VLAD	Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors	VLAD
WFST	Weighted Finite-State Transducers	WFST