Choosing number of Steps per Epoch

Question

If I want to train a model with train_generator, is there a significant difference between choosing

• 10 Epochs with 500 Steps each

and

• 100

Answer 1

Steps per epoch does not connect to epochs.

Naturally what you want if to 1 epoch your generator pass through all of your training data one time. To achieve this you should provide steps per epoch equal to number of batches like this:

steps_per_epoch = int( np.ceil(x_train.shape[0] / batch_size) )

as from above equation the largest the batch_size, the lower the steps_per_epoch.

Next you will choose epoch based on chosen validation. (choose what you think best)