backward pass

/B AE1 K W ER0 D P AE0 S/
noun
  1. 1

    (American football) A pass thrown backwards instead of forward, equivalent in the rules to a hand-off.

  2. 2

    (machine learning) The step of the backpropagation algorithm wherein the error gradient is applied in reverse order through the neural network by recursive application of the chain rule.

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