What are parameters?

Parameters are the numbers inside a model that got set during training. Everything it knows lives in them.

Navid Moazzezby Navid MoazzezUpdated Sept. 12, 20261 min read
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There are billions of them, and nobody can point at one and say what it holds.

You will also see them called weights. Same thing.