Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

minibatch

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mini-batch
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A batch less than one epoch

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mini

Inflected Forms

minibatches (plural)

Questions

What does minibatch mean?: A batch less than one epoch
Where does minibatch come from?: Attested since 1993, mini- + batch. Quickly displaced original term "blockupdate" coined by Martin Møller in 1992.

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