Talk:Alpha (machine learning)

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Is α simply a variable for a fractional component, or does it refer to something specific to machine learning? Peter Grey 07:21, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

So far as I know, it's a specific variable used in machine learning notation, referring to how much a new piece of data is weighed, relative to prior experience. We're talking about a pretty narrow and specific usage profile.

Yishan 04:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)