This is a collection of some ‘interesting’ acronyms used in research that I’ve encountered or that people have sent me. I’ve not read most of these papers, it’s just about the acronyms and backronyms. Feel free to send me some samples, I’ll decide if they are egregious enough to make the list (with credits of course).
A next step would be automatic collection of these, but that removes some of the fun of encountering them in the wild. I’m leaving that be for now.
Last updated: May 6, 2024.
The list (alphabetical order)
- ART: rule bAsed futuRe-inference deducTion
- Banana: Banach Fixed-Point Network for Pointcloud Segmentation with Inter-Part Equivariance
- CAPIVARA: Cost-Efficient Approach for Improving Multilingual CLIP Performance on Low-Resource Languages
- CATfOOD: Counterfactual Augmented Training for Improving Out-of-Domain Performance and Calibration (Esther)
- COCKATIEL: COntinuous Concept ranKed ATtribution with Interpretable ELements for explaining neural net classifiers on NLP tasks
- DRAGON: Deep Bidirectional Language-Knowledge Graph Pretraining
- EPIC: Multi-Perspective Annotation of a Corpus of Irony (Esther)
- GENOME: GenerativE Neuro-symbOlic visual reasoning by growing and reusing ModulEs (Miryam)
- GRENADE: Graph-Centric Language Model for Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Text-Attributed Graphs
- PASTA: A Dataset for Modeling PArticipant STAtes in Narratives
- PiSSA: Principal Singular Values and Singular Vectors Adaptation of Large Language Models (Artur)
- YARN (laYered meAning RepresentatioN) is All You Knit: Encoding Multiple Semantic Phenomena with Layers (Miryam)