What you need to know about batch sizes for your neural network

Santiago Valdarrama
4 min readApr 16, 2021
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The number of examples to train a neural network is an essential way to influence the training process.

In machine learning jargon, we call this the “batch size.” A batch is nothing else than a group of examples packed together in an array-like structure.

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Santiago Valdarrama

I build machine learning systems until 5 pm. Then I come here and tell you stories about them.