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Batch Normalization

A technique that normalizes layer inputs to stabilize and accelerate training by reducing internal covariate shift.

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  1. Machine Learning ✓ understood

    Building systems that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules, getting better at a task as they see more examples.

  2. Neural Network ✓ understood

    A computational model inspired by biological neural networks, consisting of interconnected nodes (neurons) organized in layers that process information through weighted connections.

  3. Dataset ✓ understood

    A collection of data examples used for training, validating, or testing machine learning models.

  4. Training ✓ understood

    The process of fitting a model to data by repeatedly measuring how wrong its outputs are and adjusting its parameters to reduce that error.

  5. Loss Function ✓ understood

    A function that scores how wrong a model's prediction is as a single number, which training then works to make as small as possible.

  6. Gradient Descent ✓ understood

    An optimization method that repeatedly moves a model's parameters a small step in the direction that most reduces the loss.

  7. Batch Size ✓ understood

    The number of training examples processed together in one forward/backward pass.

  8. Batch Normalization · you are here ✓ understood

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Group Normalization

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Foundations Normalization Scaling features to a standard range (typically 0-1 using min-max scaling) to improve model training and convergence. Often used interchangeably with standardization (mean=0, std=1), though technically distinct. Neural Networks Group Normalization Normalizing groups of channels independently, more stable than batch normalization for small batch sizes. Neural Networks Weight Normalization Reparameterizing weight vectors to improve optimization by decoupling magnitude from direction. Neural Networks Dropout A regularization technique that randomly deactivates neurons during training to prevent overfitting and improve generalization.

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