<p>It consists of organizing training in a series of learning problems, each relying on small &quot;support&quot; and &quot;query&quot; sets to mimic the few-shot circumstances encountered during evaluation.(an episode is a single task)</p>

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<p>I'm reading the book <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/hands-meta-learning-python" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hands-On Meta Learning with Python</a>, and in Prototypical networks said:</p>
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<p>So, we use episodic training—for each episode, we randomly sample a
few data points from each class in our dataset and we call that a
support set and train the network using only the support set, instead
of the whole dataset.</p>
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<p>I think, but I'm not sure, I have understood what &quot;episodic training&quot; is, but what is the meaning of &quot;episodic&quot; or &quot;episode&quot; here?</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I'm not English and I can't guess what it is meaning searching in a dictionary. I know what an episode is, but I don't know what an episode, in this context of training, means.</p>

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What does "episodic training" mean?
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# What does "episodic training" mean?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-01-23)

I'm reading the book [Hands-On Meta Learning with Python](https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/hands-meta-learning-python), and in Prototypical networks said:

> So, we use episodic training—for each episode, we randomly sample a
> few data points from each class in our dataset and we call that a
> support set and train the network using only the support set, instead
> of the whole dataset.

I think, but I'm not sure, I have understood what "episodic training" is, but what is the meaning of "episodic" or "episode" here?

I'm sorry, I'm not English and I can't guess what it is meaning searching in a dictionary. I know what an episode is, but I don't know what an episode, in this context of training, means.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-10-08. Score: 1

It consists of organizing training in a series of learning problems, each relying on small "support" and "query" sets to mimic the few-shot circumstances encountered during evaluation.(an episode is a single task)


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