The Ad Agency AI Dictionary

Common AI terms beginning with W, defined for advertising professionals.

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13 Terms in section W Updated May 2026

Wasserstein Distance

A distance metric used to measure the dissimilarity between two probability distributions.

Weak Learner

A model that performs only slightly better than random guessing; used as a building block in boosting algorithms.

Web Scraping

Extracting data from websites using automated tools, often to gather market intelligence.

Weight

A parameter in a neural network that determines the strength of the connection between nodes.

Weight Decay

A regularization technique that penalizes large weights to reduce overfitting.

Weight Initialization

The strategy for setting initial values of weights before training; good initialization can speed up convergence.

Weight Sharing

Reusing the same weights across different parts of a network to reduce the number of parameters.

Wide Network

A neural network with many neurons in each layer, enabling it to learn diverse features.

Window Function

In signal processing, a mathematical function applied to a signal to minimize edge effects before analysis.

Workflow Automation

Using AI and software to automate routine marketing tasks such as approvals, scheduling and reporting.

Word Embedding

A dense vector representation of words capturing semantic relationships.

Word2Vec

A popular algorithm for generating word embeddings by training a shallow neural network on large text corpora.

Wrapper Method

A feature selection technique that evaluates subsets of features by training and testing a model on them.

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