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Number of Epochs

How many complete passes through the training data.

An epoch is one complete pass through all training patches. More epochs give the model more opportunities to learn from the data, but too many can lead to overfitting (memorizing the training data rather than learning general patterns).

The training process includes early stopping, which automatically stops if validation performance stops improving, so you can set a high number of epochs as an upper limit.

Part of DFG Priority Programme SPP2332 "Physics of Parasitism"