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Training Epoch

Definition
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A training epoch is one full pass over the training dataset (or its shuffled partitions) under a given sampling protocol; practice estimates progress in epochs or steps and pairs them with validation curves, early stopping, and learning-rate schedules.

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Why it matters in GWAS

Reporting how many epochs a genomic classifier ran—and whether early stopping used ancestry-stratified validation—helps others judge overfitting when models ingest linkage disequilibrium-rich inputs.

Example usage

"Chronology metadata were harmonized using Training Epoch conventions before temporal comparisons."

References

  • Goodfellow I, Bengio Y, Courville A. (2016). Deep Learning. MIT Press.

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