The Ad Agency AI Dictionary

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

Q

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9 Terms in section Q Updated May 2026

Q‑Function

In reinforcement learning, a function that estimates the expected reward of taking a given action in a particular state.

Q‑Learning

A reinforcement learning algorithm that learns the optimal action‑selection policy by iteratively updating Q‑values.

Q‑Network

A neural network approximator for the Q‑function used in deep reinforcement learning.

Q‑Table

A table that stores the Q‑values for state–action pairs in simple reinforcement learning problems.

Quality Metric

Quantitative criteria used to judge the quality of models or content, such as relevance or clarity.

Quantization

Reducing the precision of model parameters or inputs to decrease memory usage and accelerate inference.

Query

A request for information from a database or search engine; in AI, query understanding drives relevant results.

Question Answering

Systems that extract or generate answers to natural language questions from text or knowledge bases.

Queue

A data structure or system that orders tasks or events for sequential processing.

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