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Hyperparameter
AI Glossary Term
What does “
Hyperparameter
” mean?
Definition
A configuration value set before training, such as learning rate, batch size, or depth.
Related terms
Learning Rate
A training hyperparameter controlling how much parameters change each update step.
Evaluation Set
A held-out dataset used to measure model quality after training.
Generalization
How well a model performs on new, unseen data outside the training set.
Pretraining
Initial large-scale model training on broad data before downstream adaptation.
Training Loss
The model error value computed during training and optimized downward over time.
Constitutional AI
A training and behavior-shaping approach where model outputs are guided by a fixed set of written principles.
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Hyperparameter Tuning
See also
Human-in-the-Loop
In-Context Learning
Hallucination
Inference
Guardrails
Inference-Time Compute
Ground Truth
Instruction Tuning
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