algorithm

Definition

A precisely specified procedure for turning input into output. In machine learning it usually names the procedural half of a system — the optimizer, the update rule, the search strategy — as opposed to the architecture, which is the structural half. A paper claiming an algorithmic contribution is saying the recipe changed, not that the network got bigger.

Explainers using this term

• Self-Improving AI — Self-Play, Co-Evolution, and Generated CurriculaMastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
• Distributed Databases — CAP, Replication and ConsensusIn Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (Raft) — Diego Ongaro
• The FFT from Scratch — Why Convolution Turns into MultiplicationAn Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier Series (Cooley & Tukey