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Training & Fine-tuningaka Backprop

Backpropagation

Backpropagation efficiently computes how a neural network's loss depends on each trainable parameter.

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It applies the chain rule from the output layer backward through the computation graph. The resulting gradients are passed to an optimizer, which decides how to update the parameters.

Related terms

Parameter-Efficient Fine-TuningGradient DescentLoss FunctionLearning RateBatch SizeOptimizer

Where Backpropagation comes up

  • Sakana AI's PC-ALM: Training Deep Nets Without Backpropagation
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  • In-Browser LLM Fine-Tuning: Why Training on WebGPU Is a Bigger Deal Than Inference
  • Recursive Reasoning in 2026: HRM, TRM, and Why Inference-Time Recursion Matters