Training
The whole process of adjusting a model’s weights using examples.
Learn it through a story
- Fog on Nandi Hills (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 2)
- The Tanker and the Data Centre (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 9)
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Related terms
- Tampering Secretly changing a system so it gives the answers you want.
- Test data Examples kept hidden, used only to check the model at the end.
- Threshold The line the total must cross for the neuron to say “yes”.
- Training data The examples an AI learns from.
- Transformer The neural network design behind most modern chatbots, which uses attention to weigh which words matter.
- Underfitting A rule too simple to capture the pattern, even in the training data.