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Glossary

The glossary will grow with the published chapters. Each term receives a stable bilingual mapping, and overloaded terms are qualified by their model, training, runtime, or system layer.

TermMeaningBoundary
TrainingEstimating or optimizing model parameters from training data, including counts or learned weights.Not inference.
InferenceModel computation performed with fixed parameters.Not a synonym for reasoning.
ReasoningIntermediate computation or search organized to solve a problem.Not a synonym for inference.
ContextInformation visible to the current request.Not parameters, long-term memory, or agent state.