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minibatch

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *bakkuz✻ — “baking, baked goods”
  2. inherited from *bakku✻
  3. inherited from *bæċċ✻ — “something baked”
  4. inherited from bach
  5. prefixed as minibatch — “mini + batch”

Definitions

  1. A batch less than one epoch

    • Interestingly, unlike the vanilla SGD algorithm, the stochastic normalized gradient descent algorithm provably requires a minimal minibatch size.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for minibatch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA