checkpointing
Periodic state saving
Checkpointing is the practice of saving the state of a system or process at intervals so work can be resumed from that point if something fails.
In computing, long-running programs use checkpointing to avoid losing hours of progress to a crash: The model training job checkpoints every thousand steps.
Video games use the same principle with save points.
Informal photograph taken quickly
- savepointStored game position
- restoreReturn to earlier state
- rollbackReturn to prior condition
- commitBind to a course
state · persistence · recovery · serialization · journaling · transaction · versioning · backup
Automatic file preservation
- quicksaveImmediate game state preservation
- respawnReappear after dying digitally
- savepointStored game position
- progressMovement toward improvement
bossfight · mission · quest · level · inventory · gameplay · continue · restart
Distinct historical period
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
- weightsHeavy objects for lifting
- gradientRate of change across space
iteration · resumption · tensor · validation · loss · optimizer · parameters · batch
snapshot
Informal photograph taken quickly
commit · state · persistence · recovery · serialization · journaling · transaction · versioning · backup · failover
autosave
Automatic file preservation
- quicksaveImmediate game state preservation
- respawnReappear after dying digitally
- savepointStored game position
progress · bossfight · mission · quest · level · inventory · gameplay · continue · restart · savefile
epoch
Distinct historical period
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
- weightsHeavy objects for lifting
gradient · iteration · resumption · tensor · validation · loss · optimizer · parameters · batch · convergence
- fault toleranceredundancy, failover, failsafe, fail-safe, disaster recovery
- streaming datadata pipeline, ingestion, live feed, feeds, buffering
- resilienceresilience, grit, bounce back, bouncing back, robustness
- streamingNetflix, Hulu, streaming, stream, YouTube
- backupbackup copy, backup drive, backup plan, backup schedule, backup service
- Autodiffbackpropagation, chain rule, gradients, partial derivative, derivative
check, checked, checking, checkers, checker, checklist, checkpoint, double-check, checklists