backpropagation.

A method of calculating how changes to parameters affect a result by propagating derivatives backward through a computational network.

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Words that belong together

• backpropagation through a network
• a backpropagation step
• gradients from backpropagation

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Backpropagation supplied the gradients; the optimizer determined how to update the weights.

The engineer found the error in the backpropagation calculation rather than in the stored training data.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.