Glossary · Phase 3 · Machine learning
Epoch
One full pass of training over every example in the training set.
Try it now
This is the training loop in the lesson, drawn: compute the errors, get the gradient, take a step.
Learn it properly
Training with gradient descent · Adjust weights step by step to reduce the loss. About 30 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- batch: A small group of examples processed together in one training step.
- mini-batch: A small group of training examples processed together in one step. Batch size is how many examples it holds.
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