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MiniGPT-4
MiniGPT-4 is an open-source vision-language model developed at KAUST and introduced in 2023, aligning a frozen vision encoder with the Vicuna language model through one projection layer.
MiniGrid
MiniGrid, previously known as gym-minigrid, is an open-source Python library of lightweight, partially observable 2D grid-world environments for reinforcement learning research, maintained by the Farama Foundation and built on Gymnasium.
Minik T. Rosing
Minik T. Rosing is a Greenlandic-Danish geologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for 1999 carbon-isotope evidence of life in Greenland's oldest rocks.
Minikube
Minikube is an open-source tool that runs a local single-node Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows, used for learning and application development rather than production.
Minilaparotomy
Minilaparotomy, commonly called minilap, is a small-incision abdominal approach to the fallopian tubes, used chiefly for female sterilization through an incision under 5 cm, often under local anesthesia.
Minilla (ミニラ)
Minilla (ミニラ, Minira, also Minya) is Toho's infant son of Godzilla, debuting in Son of Godzilla (1967) after hatching on Sollgel Island; known for smoke-ring breath, a raffle-chosen name, and returns in Destroy All Monsters, All Monsters Attack, and Final Wars.
MiniLLM
MiniLLM is a knowledge-distillation method for generative large language models, introduced in 2023 by researchers at Tsinghua University and Microsoft Research, that replaces forward with reverse Kullback–Leibler divergence.
MiniLM
MiniLM is a family of small pre-trained Transformer language models created by Microsoft Research through deep self-attention distillation from teachers like BERT, retaining over 99% of teacher accuracy with half the parameters.
Minimal coupling
Minimal coupling is the field-theory prescription of replacing the partial derivative in a free-particle equation with a gauge-covariant derivative, introducing interaction with a gauge field.
Minimal degree (computability theory)
A minimal degree in computability theory is an incomputable Turing degree with no degree strictly between it and the computable sets, first constructed by Spector in 1956.
Minimal model (physics)
Minimal model, also called Virasoro minimal model, is a two-dimensional conformal field theory with only finitely many primary fields, introduced by Belavin, Polyakov, and Zamolodchikov in 1984.
Minimal model program
The minimal model program, also called the Mori program, is a procedure in birational algebraic geometry that classifies projective varieties by replacing them with simpler birational models.
Minimal music
Minimal music, also called musical minimalism, is an American style of composition from the 1960s built on repetition and gradual change, associated with Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass.
Minimal pair
Minimal pair: two words in one language differing in exactly one sound with different meanings (pin/bin, dog/fog), the standard evidence that two sounds are separate phonemes; also used in speech therapy, L2 teaching, and NLP benchmarks like BLiMP.
Minimal polynomial (linear algebra)
In linear algebra, the minimal polynomial of a matrix or operator is the monic polynomial of least degree that annihilates it, and it divides the characteristic polynomial.
Minimal residual disease
Minimal (measurable) residual disease (MRD) is submicroscopic cancer remaining after remission, chiefly in leukemia. Measured by flow cytometry, PCR, or NGS; MRD negativity in ALL predicts far better survival and guides therapy.
Minimal subtraction scheme
Minimal subtraction (MS) is a renormalization scheme in quantum field theory whose counterterms remove only the poles of dimensional regularization, with no finite parts; its MS-bar variant also absorbs a conventional constant.
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, or MSSM, is the simplest supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model: every particle gets a superpartner, and two Higgs doublets are required.
Minimal surface
A minimal surface is a surface with zero mean curvature everywhere, the shape a soap film takes on a wire frame, studied since Euler in 1744.
Minimalism
Minimalism, or Minimal Art, is a 1960s American movement featuring simple geometric forms and industrial materials like aluminum. Key figures include Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Sol LeWitt.
Minimally conscious state
Minimally conscious state (MCS), ICD-11 8E22, is a disorder of consciousness after severe brain injury with definite but inconsistent signs of awareness, defined by 2002 Aspen Workgroup criteria, assessed with the CRS-R, and prone to about 40% misdiagnosis.
Minimally conscious state minus
Minimally conscious state minus (MCS−, ICD-11 8E22.1) is a disorder-of-consciousness subtype with non-language signs of awareness such as visual pursuit or object manipulation, but no command following or language function; proposed 2011, worse prognosis than MCS+.
Minimally conscious state plus
Minimally conscious state plus (MCS+, ICD-11 8E22.0) is a subdivision of the minimally conscious state defined by preserved language behaviors such as command following, intelligible verbalization, or intentional communication, distinguishing it from MCS minus and predicting faster emergence.
Minimally invasive biopsy
A minimally invasive biopsy removes cells or small tissue samples through a needle or a natural body opening, without open surgery, to test for disease.
Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery
MIDCAB: minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass, LIMA-to-LAD graft via left mini-thoracotomy without sternotomy or bypass, introduced mid-1990s, for isolated LAD disease and hybrid revascularization.
Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery
Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) is a group of ophthalmic procedures that lower eye pressure in glaucoma through tiny implants, with less tissue disruption than traditional surgery.
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery
Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) repairs or replaces the mitral valve through a small right chest incision rather than a full sternotomy, pioneered in the 1990s.
Minimally invasive spine surgery
Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) is a family of techniques treating spinal disorders through small incisions and muscle-sparing corridors, reducing blood loss, complications, and hospital stay versus open surgery.
Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures
Minimally invasive surgical procedures avoid open surgery by working through small keyhole incisions with endoscopes or robotic arms, reducing pain, tissue trauma, and recovery time across many specialties.
Minimally invasive veterinary procedures
Minimally invasive veterinary procedures are surgical and diagnostic techniques in animals that use endoscopes and image guidance instead of large open incisions, including laparoscopy and thoracoscopy.