# Teacher Forcing

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> Updated: 2026-05-13T20:58:23.778Z
> Type: glossary
> Category: derin-ogrenme
**TLDR:** A training strategy in sequence generation where the model is fed the true previous output instead of its own prediction.

<p>Teacher forcing is used to speed up and stabilize the training of seq2seq and recurrent generative models. Even if the model would make an error at a previous step, it continues to see the correct historical context during training. This makes learning easier, but it can create exposure bias because training and inference differ. For this reason, it is often considered together with scheduled reduction strategies.</p>