step

Definition

One unit of a repeated process, though which unit depends entirely on context. A training step is a single weight update over one batch, so step counts only compare across runs at matched batch size. A diffusion sampling step is one denoising iteration, and reducing the count is the main lever for faster generation at some cost in quality. In reasoning contexts, as in "step by step," it means one stage of an explicit chain of thought.

Explainers using this term

• Paper walkthrough: Qwen-Drive-1.0 — bolting 3D perception and planning onto a VLM without touching its architectureQwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving