AI Glossary Term

What is Algorithm?

Definition

A defined set of rules or steps that a computer follows to solve a problem or complete a task.

Related terms

Chain-of-Thought

A reasoning style where an AI model decomposes a problem into intermediate steps.

Prompt Template

A reusable prompt pattern with variables, formatting rules, and task-specific instructions.

A prompting pattern that interleaves reasoning steps with tool-use actions to solve tasks more reliably.

Backpropagation

The core training algorithm that updates model weights by propagating prediction errors backward through the network.

A task where a model assigns an input to one or more predefined categories.

Computer Vision

The branch of AI that extracts meaning from images and video.

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