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Core ML Concepts · beginner · concept 10 of 311 · Updated Nov 4, 2026

Training vs Inference

Training: the process of learning from data (expensive, slow, uses GPUs). Inference: using the trained model to make predictions (fast, cheap). Understanding this distinction is key to ML economics.

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Training loopForward passBatch sizeEpochLatency

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