Answers.Body: <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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Body: <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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Title: What does "episodic training" mean?
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ThreadText: # 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.
  
  **Tags:** training, terminology, meta-learning
  
  
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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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