backward pass

noun — 2 senses

backward pass

noun
1

American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A pass thrown backwards instead of forward, equivalent in the rules to a hand-off.

2

The step of the backpropagation algorithm wherein the error gradient is applied in reverse order through the neural network by recursive application of the chain rule.

Machine learning

Hyponyms
lateral pass
Coordinate terms
forward pass

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