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Glossary: Deep Learning Basics

Batch normalization

Also written: batch norm, BatchNorm, nn.BatchNorm1d, nn.BatchNorm2d

A layer that standardizes each feature across the batch to mean 0 and standard deviation 1, then applies a learned scale and shift. In evaluation mode it uses running averages saved during training.

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Layer normalizationNormalization layermodel.train() / model.eval()