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Deep Learning · Quiz 1 · 19 Jul 2026 · May 2026 term

Question 18: You switch to mini-batch gradient descent with batch siz…

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You are training a neural network to classify 200 species of birds from audio recordings. You have collected a dataset of audio clips. You decide to start with vanilla gradient descent. Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

You switch to mini-batch gradient descent with batch size . How many parameter updates does the network now perform per epoch?

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Question 18 of 20 in the IIT Madras BS Deep Learning (Deep Learning) Quiz 1 paper sat on 19 Jul 2026, in the May 2026 term (Deep Learning 16 Jul 26). It carries 2 marks.

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