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

The Steps per epoch denote the number of batches to be selected for one epoch. If 500 steps are selected then the network will train for 500 batches to complete one epoch. If we select the large number of epochs it can be computational