Machine Learning Compilation Glossary

Machine Learning Compilation Glossary

June 2025

An incomplete glossary of machine learning compilation terms, touching on TensorFlow and NVIDIA/GPU terminology, compilation processes, and optimization strategies.

Prioritized Training with Reducible Holdout Loss

Prioritized Training with Reducible Holdout Loss

October 2022

Intuition on the curriculum learning technique from "Prioritized Training on Points that are Learnable, Worth Learning, and Not Yet Learnt"

Delphi

Delphi

September 2019

Early prediction of high-impact research using citation networks

ArticleRank

ArticleRank

September 2019

An explanation of PageRank biases and shortcomings on citation graphs, and a useful variant called ArticleRank

PageRank

PageRank

September 2019

An introduction to PageRank, an algorithm to determine the importance of nodes in a directed graph. This post tries to build an intuition about the random surger model and draw some connections to linear algebra.