Hyperparameters are configuration choices set outside the learned parameters, such as learning rate, architecture width, or batch size.
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Hyperparameter
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Hyperparameters are configuration choices set outside the learned parameters, such as learning rate, architecture width, or batch size.
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They are the knobs you set before training, not the weights the model learns by itself.
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