minibatch

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Etymology

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

Noun

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minibatch (plural minibatches)

  1. (machine learning) A batch less than one epoch
    • 2015, Elad Hazan, Kfir Y. Levy, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, “Beyond Convexity: Stochastic Quasi-Convex Optimization”, in arXiv[1]:
      Interestingly, unlike the vanilla SGD algorithm, the stochastic normalized gradient descent algorithm provably requires a minimal minibatch size.

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