ADF	Automatic Differentiation Framework
AE	Autoencoder
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AWGN	Additive White Gaussian Noise
CNN	Convolutional Neural Network
dim.	Dimension
DNN	Deep Neural Network
ELBO	Evidence Lower BOund
IB	Information Bottleneck
InfoMax	Information Maximization
JSCC	Joint Source-Channel Coding
KL	Kullback–Leibler
MILBO	Mutual Information Lower BOund
MI	Mutual Information
ML	Machine Learning
NLP	Natural Language Processing
pdf	Probability Density Function
pmf	Probability Mass Function
ReLU	Rectified Linear Unit
ResNet	Residual Network
res. un.	Residual Unit
RV	Random Variable
Rx	Receiver
SGD	Stochastic Gradient Descent
SINFONY	Semantic INFOrmation traNsmission and recoverY
Tx	Transmitter
VAE	Variational Autoencoder