"backpropagation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: backpropagations [plural]
Etymology: back + propagation Etymology templates: {{compound|en|back|propagation}} back + propagation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} backpropagation (countable and uncountable, plural backpropagations)
  1. (machine learning) An error correction technique used in neural networks. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Artificial intelligence
    Sense id: en-backpropagation-en-noun-mE3K90xO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43
  2. (neurology) A phenomenon in which the action potential of a neuron creates a voltage spike both at the end of the axon, as normally, and also back through to the dendrites from which much of the original input current originated. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Neurology
    Sense id: en-backpropagation-en-noun-ZWe~rjZl Topics: medicine, neurology, neuroscience, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: backprop (english: back-formation), backpropagational Related terms: backpropagate Translations (in computing): vastavirta-algoritmi (Finnish), rétropropagation [feminine] (French), bakåtpropagering [common-gender] (Swedish), bakåtspridning [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'in computing': 51 49

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