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Home/Glossary/Gradient
AI Glossary Term

What does “Gradient” mean?

Definition

A vector showing how much each parameter should change to reduce loss.

Related terms

Learning Rate
A training hyperparameter controlling how much parameters change each update step.
Scaling Law
An empirical relationship showing how performance improves with model size, data, or compute.
Sliding Window Attention
An attention pattern where each token attends only to a fixed-size window of nearby tokens to reduce compute.
GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)
A generative setup where a generator and discriminator train against each other.
Generalization
How well a model performs on new, unseen data outside the training set.
Gradient Descent
An optimization method that updates parameters in the direction that reduces error.

Learn more in our free guides

Gradient AccumulationStochastic Gradient Descent with MomentumNesterov Accelerated GradientVanishing and Exploding Gradients

See also

Generative AIGround TruthGuardrailsFunction CallingHallucinationFoundation ModelHuman-in-the-LoopFine-Tuning
PreviousGenerative AINextGradient Descent
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