latents
Undeveloped crime evidence
Latents are hidden or undeveloped things waiting to be revealed.
In fingerprint analysis, latent prints are invisible impressions left by skin oils, requiring powder or chemicals to become visible: The technician dusted for latents at the crime scene.
In machine learning and AI, latents are the compressed internal representations a model uses—abstract numerical patterns that encode meaning before being decoded into images, text, or other outputs.
Prolonged winter dormancy
- quiescentInactive but capable
- torporInactive, sluggish state
- inactiveNot currently functioning
- slumberingIn a state of rest
suspended · resting · fallow · untapped · unawakened · inert · idle · sleeping
Not made actual
- undevelopedNot fully formed
- unexpressedNot communicated outwardly
- promiseCommitment to act
- capacityMaximum amount containable
prospect · possibility · dormant · emergent · incipient · nascent · budding · embryonic
Made invisible deliberately
- obscuredMade hard to perceive
- veiledConcealed or obscured
- undetectedNot discovered yet
- covertIntentionally concealed
cryptic · masked · buried · shrouded · unseen · invisible · underlying · subliminal
Learned numerical encodings
- representationsThings depicting other things
- vectorsDirected magnitude quantities
- featuresDistinctive qualities or aspects
- activationsActs of starting up
encodings · dimensions · space · bottleneck · diffusion · generative · decoder · manifold
hibernation
Prolonged winter dormancy
slumbering · suspended · resting · fallow · untapped · unawakened · inert · idle · sleeping · recessed
unrealized
Not made actual
- undevelopedNot fully formed
- unexpressedNot communicated outwardly
- promiseCommitment to act
capacity · prospect · possibility · dormant · emergent · incipient · nascent · budding · embryonic · germinal
concealed
Made invisible deliberately
- obscuredMade hard to perceive
- veiledConcealed or obscured
- undetectedNot discovered yet
covert · cryptic · masked · buried · shrouded · unseen · invisible · underlying · subliminal · subconscious
embeddings
Learned numerical encodings
- representationsThings depicting other things
- vectorsDirected magnitude quantities
- featuresDistinctive qualities or aspects
activations · encodings · dimensions · space · bottleneck · diffusion · generative · decoder · manifold · noise
- latent abilityUndeveloped skill present within
- latent heatPhase transition thermal energy
- low latencyMinimal transmission delay
- latent potentialAbility not yet manifest
- latent printHidden friction ridge impression
- latent imageInvisible recorded light pattern