Slope, or gradient
Which way, and how steeply, the error changes when a weight changes.
Learn it through a story
- Fog on Nandi Hills (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 2)
Short on time? Read the 5-minute version.
Related terms
- Prediction The AI’s best guess.
- Regression Predicting a number, rather than choosing a category.
- Reinforcement learning Learning by trial and error, getting rewards for good actions.
- Spurious pattern An accident in the data that looks like a real rule.
- Supervised learning Learning from examples that come with answers.
- Tampering Secretly changing a system so it gives the answers you want.