AaltoDictionaryofML
📘 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.
🤖 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.
📘 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)
🧑🤝🧑 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
💰 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.
📌 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).
🧾 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.
🧭 Repository Links
- GitHub: AaltoDictionaryofML.github.io
- MCP Server: mcp/