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minibatch

minibatch noun: a batch less than one epoch.

Noun

minibatch (plural minibatches)

  1. (machine learning) A batch less than one epoch
    • Interestingly, unlike the vanilla SGD algorithm, the stochastic normalized gradient descent algorithm provably requires a minimal minibatch size.2015, Elad Hazan, Kfir Y. Levy, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, “Beyond Convexity: Stochastic Quasi-Convex Optimization”, in arXiv

Forms of minibatch

pluralminibatches

Origin of minibatch

Attested since 1993, mini- + batch. Quickly displaced original term "blockupdate" coined by Martin Møller in 1992.

Questions about minibatch

What does minibatch mean?
Minibatch means a batch less than one epoch.
What part of speech is minibatch?
Minibatch is a noun.
What is the plural of minibatch?
The plural of minibatch is minibatches.

Words near minibatch in the dictionary

  1. minibar
  2. minibarcode
  3. minibarcodes
  4. minibars
  5. minibasket
  6. minibatch
  7. minibatches
  8. minibatching
  9. minibattle
  10. minibattles
  11. minibeam

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