📘 Aalto Dictionary of Machine Learning (ADictML)

A multilingual, open-access glossary for ML and AI — available as a PDF and as an MCP server for AI coding assistants. Developed by the Aalto Machine Learning Group for students, researchers, and educators at Aalto University.

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🤖 Use ADictML in Your AI Assistant (MCP)

ADictML is now available as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server — letting AI coding assistants like Claude Code look up, search, and cross-reference dictionary terms directly in context.

Claude Code

pip install -r mcp/requirements.txt
claude mcp add --scope user aalto-dictionary \
  -- python ~/AaltoDictionaryofML.github.io/mcp/server.py

VS Code (Copilot / GitHub Copilot Chat) Add to ~/.config/Code/User/mcp.json (Linux/macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/mcp.json):

{
  "servers": {
    "aalto-dictionary": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["~/AaltoDictionaryofML.github.io/mcp/server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Once connected, ask your assistant things like:

• "Look up Byzantine robustness in the Aalto Dictionary"
• "List all Regulation terms"
• "What terms are related to federated learning?"

→ See mcp/README.md for full setup and tool reference.

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📘 Dictionary at a Glance

• Total terms: 567
• Machine Learning Concepts: 285
• Mathematical Tools: 219
• Machine Learning Systems: 33
• Machine Learning Regulation: 15
• Reinforcement Learning: 15
• Last updated: 2026-03-19

📥 Download

• 📘 English PDF (latest release)
• 🌐 Translations
  (Spanish, German, French, Greek, Finnish)

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Authors & Contributors

Editor-in-Chief:
Alexander Jung — Associate Professor, Aalto University
ORCID: 0000-0001-7538-0990

Contributors:

• Konstantina Olioumtsevits — Aalto University
• Ekkehard Schnoor — Aalto University
• Tommi Flores Ryynänen — Aalto University
• Juliette Gronier — ENS Lyon
• Salvatore Rastelli — Aalto University
• Mikko Seesto — Aalto University

Full contributor list: AUTHORS.md

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💰 Funding and Acknowledgements

The Aalto Dictionary of Machine Learning (ADictML) has been partially supported by:

• XAI-based software-defined energy networks via packetized management for fossil fuel-free next-generation of industrial cyber-physical systems (X-SDEN) Research Council of Finland, Grant No. 349966
• Mathematical Theory of Trustworthy Federated Learning (MATHFUL)
  Research Council of Finland, Grant No. 363624
• A Mathematical Theory of Federated Learning (TRUST-FELT)
  Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Grant No. A835
• FLAIG – AI Governance in Banking and Insurance
  Business Finland

These projects have enabled the open development of teaching materials, LaTeX figures,
and the public ADictML repository.

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📌 Citation

If you use or refer to ADictML, please cite as:

A. Jung and K. Olioumtsevits and E. Schnoor and T. Flores Ryynänen and J. Gronier and S. Rastelli and M. Seesto (2026).
Aalto Dictionary of Machine Learning (ADictML).
Aalto University.

A formal companion edition will appear in the Springer Dictionary of Applied Machine Learning (MRW).

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🧾 License

This work, Aalto Dictionary of Machine Learning, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

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🧭 Repository Links

• GitHub: AaltoDictionaryofML.github.io
• MCP Server: mcp/

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