minibatch

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• main bitch