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Model-based offline RL
Model-based offline RL is a family of reinforcement learning algorithms that train policies from static datasets using a learned dynamics model with safeguards against model errors.
Model-based reinforcement learning
Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) is a reinforcement learning approach in which an agent learns a model of its environment, then uses it to plan or generate imagined training experience.
Model-based systems engineering
Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is the formalized application of modeling to system requirements, design, analysis, verification, and validation, using languages such as SysML and promoted by INCOSE's MBSE Initiative since 2007.
Model-based testing
Model-based testing (MBT) is a software testing method that derives test cases automatically from a behavioral model of a system and executes them against it.
Model-driven architecture
Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a software design approach spearheaded by the Object Management Group, adopted in 2001, that expresses software specifications as models and transforms them into platform-specific code.
Model-free reinforcement learning
Model-free reinforcement learning is a class of algorithms that learn a policy or value function directly from an agent's experience, without estimating a model of the environment's dynamics.
Model–view–controller
Model–view–controller, or MVC, is a software architectural pattern that separates an application into a model holding data and logic, a view, and a controller handling input.
Model–view–presenter
Model–view–presenter (MVP) is a software architectural pattern that separates a user interface into a model, view, and presenter, first described at Taligent in Mike Potel's 1996 paper.
Model–view–viewmodel
Model–view–viewmodel (MVVM), also called model-view-binder, is a UI architectural pattern that decouples interface code from business logic using model, view, and view model layers joined by data binding.
Modelica
Modelica is a free, object-oriented language for modeling large physical and cyber-physical systems through equations rather than assignment statements, standardized by the Modelica Association since 2000.
Modeling Instruction
Modeling Instruction is an inquiry-based science pedagogy developed at Arizona State University in the 1980s by David Hestenes and Malcolm Wells, organizing courses around student-built models.
Modella Capital
Modella Capital is a London-based private equity firm that buys troubled UK retail businesses, including Hobbycraft, Claire's, and the former WH Smith high street chain, rebranded TG Jones.
ModelNet
ModelNet is a dataset of 127,915 3D CAD models in 660 object categories, created by Princeton researchers; its ModelNet10 and ModelNet40 subsets became standard benchmarks for 3D object classification.
Models of communication
Models of communication are simplified representations of messaging: linear (Shannon-Weaver, Lasswell), interactive (Schramm, Osgood, Berlo), and transactional (Barnlund), covering sender, message, channel, noise, feedback, and context.
ModelScope
ModelScope is a model-and-dataset hosting platform and open-source machine-learning toolkit launched by Alibaba in mainland China in November 2022, positioned as China's counterpart to Hugging Face.
ModelSim
ModelSim is an HDL simulator developed by Model Technology under Mentor Graphics that simulates VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog designs and is now sold by Siemens.
Modem
A modem, short for modulator-demodulator, is a device that converts digital data into transmittable signals and back, first developed in 1949 and commercialized by Bell Telephone in 1958.
Modena
Modena (Latin Mutina), city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; Roman colony founded 183 BC, buried Roman city 5 m deep, 1099 Romanesque cathedral, UNESCO site since 1997, Este duchy capital from 1598, 183,763 residents.
Modena Cathedral
Modena Cathedral (Duomo di Modena) is a 12th-century Romanesque cathedral in Modena, Italy, begun in 1099 by Lanfranco and decorated by Wiligelmo, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury
Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury (moderate-severe TBI) is head trauma more severe than mild TBI, defined by GCS below 13 or prolonged loss of consciousness or amnesia.
Moderate deviations
Moderate deviations are asymptotic results in probability theory describing tail probabilities at intermediate scales, between the central limit theorem and large deviations, where Gaussian approximations still hold.
Moderate Party
Moderate Party (Moderata samlingspartiet, Moderaterna, M), Sweden's liberal-conservative party founded 1904 as Allmänna Valmansförbundet; EPP member, led by Ulf Kristersson, seven prime ministers, peak 30.1% vote in 2010, 70 Riksdag seats.
Moderate personality disorder
Moderate personality disorder (ICD-11 6D10.1) is the middle severity level of the single ICD-11 personality disorder diagnosis, marked by disturbances in multiple areas of self and interpersonal functioning, specified by five trait domains and a borderline pattern qualifier.
Moderate vision impairment
Moderate vision impairment: ICD-11 distance vision category with presenting acuity worse than 6/18 (20/70) but 6/60 (20/200) or better; also called part of MSVI; mainly caused by uncorrected refractive error and cataract.
Moderated mediation
Moderated mediation, also known as moderated mediation analysis, is a statistical method testing whether the indirect effect of a variable through a mediator varies with a moderator, coined by James and Brett in 1984.
Moderation analysis
Moderation analysis is a regression-based statistical method for testing whether the relationship between an independent and dependent variable changes as a function of a third variable, the moderator.
Moderato Cantabile
Moderato Cantabile is a 1958 short novel by Marguerite Duras in which an industrialist's wife becomes obsessed with a café murder through dialogue with Chauvin.
Modern Adventure Pro Cycling
Modern Adventure Pro Cycling (MAP) is an American UCI ProTeam founded for 2026 by George and Rich Hincapie, with a 21-rider roster, Factor bikes, a Tour de France ambition, and 35th place in the UCI rankings.
Modern aqueducts of Europe
Modern aqueducts of Europe are complex water-moving systems composed of pipes and canals, which historians studied in cities like Naples and Venice between 1800 and 1910.
Modern Arabic poetry
Modern Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي الحديث) is the poetry written in Arabic from the late nineteenth century to the present, spanning four stages and pioneering free verse after 1948.