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Gradient Accumulation

Summing gradients over multiple batches before updating, simulating larger effective batch sizes.

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8 stops · basics first
  1. Dataset ✓ understood

    A collection of data examples used for training, validating, or testing machine learning models.

  2. Training ✓ understood

    The process of fitting a model to data by repeatedly measuring how wrong its outputs are and adjusting its parameters to reduce that error.

  3. Loss Function ✓ understood

    A function that scores how wrong a model's prediction is as a single number, which training then works to make as small as possible.

  4. Gradient Descent ✓ understood

    An optimization method that repeatedly moves a model's parameters a small step in the direction that most reduces the loss.

  5. Batch Size ✓ understood

    The number of training examples processed together in one forward/backward pass.

  6. Machine Learning ✓ understood

    Building systems that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules, getting better at a task as they see more examples.

  7. Neural Network ✓ understood

    A computational model inspired by biological neural networks, consisting of interconnected nodes (neurons) organized in layers that process information through weighted connections.

  8. Backpropagation ✓ understood

    The algorithm for computing gradients of the loss with respect to network weights, enabling training through gradient descent.

  9. Gradient Accumulation · you are here ✓ understood

Summing gradients over multiple batches before updating, simulating larger effective batch sizes.

This concept is essential for understanding training & optimization and forms a key part of modern AI systems.

  • Training
  • Batch Size
  • Memory Efficiency

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