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hyperparameters

hyperparameters is the plural of hyperparameter.

Meaning of hyperparameter

Noun

hyperparameter (plural hyperparameters)

  1. (Bayesian statistics) A parameter of a prior (as distinguished from inferred parameters of the model for the underlying system under analysis).
    • this model has four hyperparameters
    Synonyms:
    superparameter
  2. (machine learning) A parameter whose value is set before the learning process begins.
    • The ideal learning algorithm just takes a dataset and outputs a function, without requiring hand tuning of hyperparameters.2016, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, chapter 11, in Deep Learning, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 420

Questions about hyperparameters

What is hyperparameters the plural of?
Hyperparameters is the plural of hyperparameter.

Words near hyperparameters in the dictionary

  1. hyperparameterisations
  2. hyperparameterization
  3. hyperparameterizations
  4. hyperparameterize
  5. hyperparameterizing
  6. hyperparameters
  7. hyperparametric
  8. hyperparasitaemia
  9. hyperparasitaemias
  10. hyperparasitaemic
  11. hyperparasite

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