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74 words and 237 other names, in italics, pointing to their entries.
- NAACL → Association for Computational Linguistics
- nabla → gradient
- Thomas Nagel
- NAH → natural abstraction hypothesis
- NAIRR → National AI Research Resource
- NAIRR Pilot → National AI Research Resource
- naive baseline → baseline
- naive Bayes
- naive Bayes classifier → naive Bayes
- naive physics → commonsense reasoning
- name, image and likeness → right of publicity
- name mover head → indirect object identification
- named entity → named-entity recognition
- named-entity recognition
- Neel Nanda
- Nano Banana
- Nano Banana 2 → Nano Banana
- Nano Banana 2.1 → Nano Banana
- Nano Banana Pro → Nano Banana
- nanometer node → process node
- Arvind Narayanan
- narrow AI
- NAS → neural architecture search
- Nash equilibria → Nash equilibrium
- Nash equilibrium
- national AI capability → sovereign AI
- National AI Research Resource
- national competent authority → market surveillance authority
- National Research Cloud → National AI Research Resource
- native audio model → speech-to-speech model
- native function calling → function calling
- native image generation → autoregressive image generation
- native sparse attention → sparse attention
- natural abstraction → natural abstraction hypothesis
- natural abstraction hypothesis
- natural abstractions → natural abstraction hypothesis
- natural evolution strategies → evolution strategies
- natural indirect effect → causal mediation analysis
- natural language generation
- natural language inference
- natural language interface to databases → semantic parsing
- natural language processing
- natural language understanding
- navigable small world graph → HNSW
- NCC → neural correlates of consciousness
- NCCL
- NCII → non-consensual intimate imagery
- NCSN → score-based generative model
- N-D parallelism → 3D parallelism
- NDCG → normalized discounted cumulative gain
- nDCG → normalized discounted cumulative gain
- nDCG@k → normalized discounted cumulative gain
- n-dimensional array → tensor
- near-deduplication → deduplication
- near-duplicate detection → deduplication
- nearest neighbor classifier → k-nearest neighbors
- nearest neighbor search → vector search
- nearest-neighbor rule → k-nearest neighbors
- NEAT → neuroevolution
- neat AI → neats and scruffies
- neat vs. scruffy → neats and scruffies
- neats → neats and scruffies
- neats and scruffies
- neck → backbone
- Ned Joel Block → Ned Block
- needle in a haystack
- needle test → needle in a haystack
- needle-in-a-haystack test → needle in a haystack
- negamax → minimax
- negation as failure → closed-world assumption
- negative alignment tax → alignment tax
- negative conditioning → negative prompt
- negative embedding → textual inversion
- negative feedback loop → feedback loop
- negative prompt
- negative prompting → negative prompt
- negative sampling → word2vec
- negative side effects
- negative transfer → transfer learning
- negative variational free energy → evidence lower bound
- neighborhood search → local search
- neocloud
- neo-cloud → neocloud
- neocognitron
- neo-Luddism → Luddite
- neo-Luddite → Luddite
- NER → named-entity recognition
- nerd rapture → rapture of the nerds
- nerfed
- nerfing → nerfed
- nested cross-validation → cross-validation
- nested embedding → Matryoshka embedding
- nested learning
- Nesterov accelerated gradient → momentum
- Nesterov momentum → momentum
- net lift modeling → uplift modeling
- Netflix Prize
- network architecture → architecture
- network compression → model compression
- network dissection
- network fabric → interconnect
- network layer → layer
- network pruning → pruning
- Neumann János → John von Neumann
- neural additive model → generalized additive model
- neural architecture → architecture
- neural architecture search
- neural attention → attention
- neural audio codec
- neural circuit (interpretability) → circuit
- neural circuit policy → liquid neural network
- neural codec → neural audio codec
- neural collapse
- neural correlate of consciousness → neural correlates of consciousness
- neural correlates of consciousness
- neural decoding → decoding
- neural differential equation → neural ordinary differential equation
- neural engine → NPU
- neural field → implicit neural representation
- Neural Information Processing Systems → NeurIPS
- neural language model → language model
- neural machine translation → machine translation
- neural net → neural network
- neural network
- neural network compression → model compression
- neural network layer → layer
- neural network verification → formal verification
- neural ODE → neural ordinary differential equation
- neural operator
- neural ordinary differential equation
- neural processing unit → NPU
- neural radiance field
- neural retrieval → dense retrieval
- neural scaling laws → scaling laws
- neural search → semantic search
- neural style transfer → style transfer
- neural tangent kernel
- neural trojan → backdoor attack
- neural Turing machine
- neural unit → artificial neuron
- neural vocoder → vocoder
- neural wiring diagram → connectome
- neuralese
- neuralese reasoning → neuralese
- neural-symbolic AI → neuro-symbolic AI
- neural-symbolic integration → neuro-symbolic AI
- NeurIPS
- neuroevolution
- neuro-evolution → neuroevolution
- NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies → neuroevolution
- neuromorphic chip → neuromorphic computing
- neuromorphic computing
- neuromorphic engineering → neuromorphic computing
- neuron → artificial neuron
- Neuronpedia
- neuronpedia.org → Neuronpedia
- neuro-symbolic → neuro-symbolic AI
- neurosymbolic → neuro-symbolic AI
- neuro-symbolic AI
- neurosymbolic AI → neuro-symbolic AI
- never-ending learning → continual learning
- New York RAISE Act → RAISE Act
- New York Times v. OpenAI
- Newcomb's problem → decision theory
- Allen Newell
- new-item problem → cold start problem
- Newton's method → second-order optimization
- new-user problem → cold start problem
- next-token prediction
- next-word prediction → next-token prediction
- NF4 → QLoRA
- NFE → diffusion sampler
- NFL theorem → no free lunch theorem
- Andrew Ng
- n-gram → n-gram model
- n-gram language model → n-gram model
- n-gram model
- NHST → hypothesis testing
- NIAH → needle in a haystack
- Nightshade
- Nightshade poisoning → Nightshade
- Niji → Midjourney
- NIL rights → right of publicity
- Nils J. Nilsson → Nils Nilsson
- Nils John Nilsson → Nils Nilsson
- Nils Nilsson
- NIPS → NeurIPS
- NIST AI 100-1 → NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- NIST AI RMF → NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- NL2SQL → semantic parsing
- NLG → natural language generation
- NLI → natural language inference
- NLIDB → semantic parsing
- NLP → natural language processing
- NLU → natural language understanding
- N:M sparsity
- NMF → matrix factorization
- NMPC → model predictive control
- NMS → non-maximum suppression
- NMS-free detection → non-maximum suppression
- NMT → machine translation
- NN → neural network
- nn.Linear → fully connected layer
- NNUE → evaluation function
- NO FAKES Act
- NO FAKES Act of 2026 → NO FAKES Act
- no free lunch theorem
- no free lunch theorems → no free lunch theorem
- no moat → moat
- Nobel Prize of computing → Turing Award
- Nobel Prizes for AI
- noise schedule
- noise-conditional score network → score-based generative model
- noising (patching) → activation patching
- noisy labels → label noise
- Nokia Bell Labs → Bell Labs
- nonconformity score → conformal prediction
- non-consensual intimate image → non-consensual intimate imagery
- non-consensual intimate imagery
- non-consensual pornography → non-consensual intimate imagery
- non-convex optimization → convex optimization
- nondeterminism
- non-determinism → nondeterminism
- nondeterministic → nondeterminism
- non-embedding parameters → parameter count
- nonlinear model predictive control → model predictive control
- non-linearity → activation function
- nonlinearity → activation function
- non-maxima suppression → non-maximum suppression
- non-maximum suppression
- non-monotonic logic → non-monotonic reasoning
- non-monotonic reasoning
- nonmonotonic reasoning → non-monotonic reasoning
- non-negative matrix factorization → matrix factorization
- nonparametric method → nonparametric model
- nonparametric model
- non-parametric model → nonparametric model
- nonparametric statistics → nonparametric model
- non-privileged basis → privileged basis
- NoPE → positional encoding
- no-regret learning → regret
- no-repeat n-gram → repetition penalty
- norm
- normal curve → normal distribution
- normal distribution
- normal equations → ordinary least squares
- normal technology → AI as normal technology
- normalization → normalization layer
- normalization layer
- normalized cuts → spectral clustering
- normalized discounted cumulative gain
- normalized exponential function → softmax
- normalizing flow
- Peter Norvig
- notebook → Jupyter notebook
- notes file → scratchpad
- notified body
- notkilleveryoneism
- notkilleveryoneist → notkilleveryoneism
- novel view synthesis → neural radiance field
- novelty detection → anomaly detection
- novelty search → quality diversity
- NP → NP-complete
- NP-complete
- NP-completeness → NP-complete
- NP-hard → NP-complete
- NP-hardness → NP-complete
- NPU
- NSA → sparse attention
- NST → style transfer
- NSW → HNSW
- NTK → neural tangent kernel
- NTK-aware scaling → context extension
- NTM → neural Turing machine
- NTP → next-token prediction
- NT-Xent → contrastive learning
- nucleus → top-p sampling
- nucleus sampling → top-p sampling
- nudification → nudification app
- nudification app
- nudification tool → nudification app
- nudifier → nudification app
- nudify app → nudification app
- null hypothesis → hypothesis testing
- number format → floating-point format
- number of function evaluations → diffusion sampler
- number of parameters → parameter count
- numerical instability → numerical stability
- numerical linear algebra → linear algebra
- numerical precision → precision
- Numerical Python → NumPy
- numerical stability
- numerically stable → numerical stability
- NumPy
- Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act → NO FAKES Act
- NVFP4 → FP4
- Nvidia
- NVIDIA Collective Communications Library → NCCL
- Nvidia Corporation → Nvidia
- Nvidia H100 → H100
- NVIDIA TensorRT → TensorRT
- NVL72 → rack-scale system
- NVLink
- NVLink Fusion → NVLink
- NVLink Switch → NVLink
- NVLink-C2C → NVLink
- NVSwitch → NVLink
- N-way K-shot → few-shot learning
- NYC bias audit law → automated employment decision tool
- NYT v. OpenAI → New York Times v. OpenAI