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MLPerf

MLPerf is an open-source benchmark suite, run by the consortium MLCommons, that measures AI training and inference hardware performance, with results used in customer procurement decisions.

MLPerf Inference

MLPerf Inference is a benchmark suite published by MLCommons that measures machine learning inference performance across edge and datacenter systems, first run in October 2019.

MLPerf Mobile

MLPerf Mobile is an open-source benchmark suite from MLCommons that measures how fast phones and laptops run AI inference tasks, and how accurate the results are.

MLW M-420

The MLW M-420 is a four-axle, 2,000-horsepower diesel-electric road switcher built by Montreal Locomotive Works between 1973 and 1977, chiefly for Canadian National. It was the first locomotive with the wide-nosed Canadian comfort cab.

MLX

MLX is an open-source array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon, released by Apple in December 2023, with Python and Swift APIs for running and fine-tuning LLMs locally.

MM-14

MM-14 is a five-color digital camouflage pattern used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014, known as "Ukrainian pixel" and replacing the Soviet-era Dubok and Berezka patterns.

MMAU

MMAU (Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding) is a multiple-choice benchmark released in October 2024 by University of Maryland and Adobe researchers to test expert-level reasoning in audio-language models.

MMBench

MMBench is a bilingual English-Chinese multiple-choice benchmark introduced in July 2023 by OpenCompass researchers to diagnose vision-language models across 20 fine-grained perception and reasoning abilities using a robust circular evaluation protocol.

MMC Norilsk Nickel

MMC Norilsk Nickel, commonly known as Nornickel, is a Russian mining and metals company headquartered in Moscow that produces nickel, copper, and palladium, founded in 1935.

MMDetection

MMDetection is an open-source object detection toolbox and benchmark built on PyTorch by OpenMMLab, originating from the winner of the COCO Challenge 2018 detection track and covering detection, instance segmentation, and panoptic segmentation.

MME benchmark

The MME benchmark, or Multimodal Evaluation, is a 2023 test for multimodal language models that measures perception and cognition across 14 subtasks using manually written yes-or-no questions about images.

MMLU

MMLU (Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding) is a benchmark of multiple-choice questions covering 57 academic and professional subjects, introduced in 2020 to evaluate large language models.

MMLU-Pro

MMLU-Pro is a benchmark of 12,032 multiple-choice questions across 14 disciplines for evaluating large language models, introduced in June 2024 as a harder successor to MMLU.

MMMU

MMMU (Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning) is a college-level benchmark for vision-language models, with about 11,550 exam questions across six disciplines, released in 2023.

MMMU benchmark

MMMU (Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning) is a benchmark released in November 2023 that tests multimodal AI models on 11.5K college-level questions combining images and text.

MMRTG

The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) is a nuclear battery that converts plutonium-238 decay heat into electricity, powering NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on Mars and planned for the Dragonfly mission to Titan.

MMS (Massively Multilingual Speech)

Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) is a set of open speech models released by Meta AI in May 2023, extending speech recognition and synthesis to over 1,100 languages.

MMSE equalization

MMSE equalization, short for minimum mean square error, is a linear equalization method that minimizes the error between the equalizer output and the transmitted symbol, balancing noise against residual interference.

MMX (spacecraft)

MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) is a JAXA spacecraft that will land on Mars's moon Phobos and return more than 10 grams of samples to Earth in 2031.

MMX rover

The MMX rover, named Idefix, is a four-wheeled rover built by CNES and DLR for JAXA's MMX mission, to explore the Martian moon Phobos for about 100 days.

Mn–N–C catalysts

Mn–N–C catalysts are electrocatalysts with atomically dispersed manganese coordinated by nitrogen in a carbon matrix, studied as platinum-free catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells and metal-air batteries.

Mnazi Bay Gas Field

The Mnazi Bay gas field is an onshore natural gas field in the Rovuma Basin in southeastern Tanzania, discovered in 1982 by AGIP and supplying most of Tanzania's gas.

MNIST database

The MNIST database, or MNIST dataset, is a collection of 70,000 grayscale images of handwritten digits serving as a standard machine learning benchmark since the late 1990s.

Moa Nickel

Moa Nickel is a nickel and cobalt mining and processing operation in Moa, Cuba, run as a 50/50 joint venture between Sherritt International and Cuba's General Nickel Company.

Moat

A moat is a deep, wide ditch dug around a castle, fortress, or fortified town, dry or filled with water, to make direct attack on its walls more difficult.

Moatize Coal Mine

The Moatize Coal Mine is a large open-cut coal mine in Tete Province, Mozambique, opened by Vale in 2011 and sold to India's Jindal Group in 2022.

Mob programming

Mob programming, also called ensemble programming, is a software development approach where the whole team works on the same thing at the same computer, extending pair programming to the entire team.

Moba (company)

Moba is a Dutch manufacturer of egg grading, packing, and processing equipment, founded in Barneveld in 1947 by Job Mosterd, with about 70% of the world's eggs passing through its systems daily.

Mobarakeh Steel power station

Mobarakeh Steel power station (نیروگاه فولاد مبارکه, also known as Foolad-Mobarake) is a 932 MW gas-fired captive power station in Isfahan province, Iran, supplying the Mobarakeh Steel Complex.

Mobian

Mobian is a Debian derivative that brings the Debian GNU/Linux operating system to smartphones and tablets. Begun in 2020 for the PinePhone, it uses the Phosh interface and supports devices including the Librem 5.