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Start before LLMs. Understand where AI, ML and neural networks fit.
Epoch
An epoch is one pass through the training dataset.
Think of it like
Think of Epoch as one layer in a very large toolbox: you only need to understand what job that layer performs.
Real life
A phone spam filter, recommendation engine, fraud detector or voice assistant may use Epoch somewhere inside.
SRE lens
Fine-tuning may run for a small number of epochs to avoid overfitting.
Remember thisAn epoch is one pass through the training dataset.