# Explicitly set number of training steps using Trainer

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/explicitly-set-number-of-training-steps-using-trainer/1127>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/explicitly-set-number-of-training-steps-using-trainer/1127 "2020-09-14T19:11:17Z")\
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The number of steps is the number of update steps. It’s not the number of training examples to be seen.

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