| ACS-F1 | Appliance Consumption Signature-Fribourg 1 |
| ACS-F2 | Appliance Consumption Signature-Fribourg 2 |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| APF | Amplitude–Phase–Frequency |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| CART | Classification and Regression Tree |
| CEV | Cumulative Explained Variance |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| DWT | Discrete Wavelet Transform |
| DT | Decision tree |
| ELM | Extreme Learning Machine |
| GADF | Gramian Angular Difference Field |
| GFI | Ground Fault Interrupter |
| GS | Grid search |
| HEMS | Home Energy Management System |
| HT-LSTM | Hilbert Transform Long Short-Term Memory |
| K-CV | K-fold cross-validation |
| k-NN | k-Nearest Neighbors |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| LR | Logistic Regression |
| LSTM | Long Short-Time Memory |
| LSTM-BP | Long Short-Time Memory Back-Propagation |
| ML | Machine learning |
| NB | Naive Bayes |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PLAID | Plug Load Appliance Identification Dataset |
| ELM | Extreme Learning Machine |
| RF | Random Forest |
| REDD | Reference Energy Disaggregation Dataset |
| RMS | Root Mean Square |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| VPC | Vector Projection Classification |