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Teacher Forcing

Model Training · Level 2 of 5

Teacher Forcing

Training a sequence model using true previous outputs as inputs.

At inference the model may instead consume its own predictions, creating a mismatch.

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A decoder receives the reference previous word during training.

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Teacher Forcing. Training a sequence model using true previous outputs as inputs. At inference the model may instead consume its own predictions, creating a mismatch. For example: A decoder receives the reference previous word during training.

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