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Training data

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCore term

In software engineering, training data means: The examples a model learns from during training. Their quality, size and variety largely decide how well the model works on new data.

In Turkish: eğitim verisi

How it is used

Uncountable, like 'data': 'more training data', not 'more training datas'. It is often discussed in terms of quality, coverage, licensing and privacy: what is in the training data and what is missing from it.

Example sentences

  1. The model struggles with night photos because there were very few in the training data.

  2. We removed all personal information from the training data before the first run.

Common collocations

  • collect training data
  • high-quality training data
  • in the training data
  • training data pipeline
  • datasetA collection of examples, such as images, texts or table rows, gathered and organized for training, testing or analyzing a model.
  • labelThe correct answer attached to a training example, such as 'spam' for an email or 'cat' for a photo, which a supervised model learns to predict.
  • data augmentationCreating extra training examples by making small changes to existing ones, such as flipping or cropping images or rephrasing sentences, so that a model sees more variety.
  • data leakageA mistake in which information that won't be available at prediction time, such as test examples or future data, gets into training and makes results look better than they are.

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