Glossary · Phase 4 · Deep learning
Checkpoint
A saved copy of a model's weights at some point in training, so you can go back to it or resume later.
Learn it properly
The training loop · Forward, loss, backward, step, repeat. About 35 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- state_dict: PyTorch's dictionary of a model's weights by name. Saving and loading it is how you keep or restore a trained model.
- training loop: The repeated cycle of training: predict, measure the loss, backpropagate, update the weights.