AI engineering glossary · ML fundamentals
What is training example?
Training example (also called Sample, Instance, Observation): One record in a dataset: the feature values for a single case, plus its label when the task is supervised. A dataset is a collection of such records. Also called an instance, sample or observation, it is the basic unit a learning algorithm learns from.
Training example: an example
One row of a loan dataset: age 34, monthly income Rs 60,000, existing loans 1, outcome 'repaid'.
Related terms
More ML fundamentals terms
- Training set
- Transfer learning
- True risk
- Underfitting
- Unsupervised learning
- Validation curve
- Validation set
- VC dimension
Where you learn it
Training example is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.