learning

Definition

The process by which a system acquires structure from data rather than from hand-written rules. In practice it means updating parameters to reduce a loss, and the qualifier in front — supervised, self-supervised, reinforcement, in-context — tells you where the training signal comes from. Learning names the regime; training refers to the concrete run that carries it out.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: Dynamic Band Splitting — Letting Each Mixture Decide Where the Frequency Bands GoLearning Where to Split: Dynamic Band Splitting for Audio Source Separation
• Paper Explained: Just-in-Time Memory — Curate Agent Memory When You Read It, Not When You Write ItJust-in-Time Memory: Learning to Curate Task-Adaptive Memory for LLM Agents
• Paper Explained: Negative Self-Distillation — Learning to Reason by Steering Away From Your Worst SelfNegative Self-Distillation: Learning to Reason by Avoiding Flaws

In the textbook

• How Far to Step, and When to Stop — Learning Rates and Optimisation