By setting verbose 0, 1 or 2 you just say how do you want to 'see' the training progress for each epoch.
verbose=0
will show you nothing (silent)
verbose=1
will show you an animated progress bar like this:
Train on 186219 samples, validate on 20691 samples
Epoch 1/2
186219/186219 [==============================] - 85s 455us/step - loss: 0.5815 - acc:
0.7728 - val_loss: 0.4917 - val_acc: 0.8029
Train on 186219 samples, validate on 20691 samples
Epoch 2/2
186219/186219 [==============================] - 84s 451us/step - loss: 0.4921 - acc:
0.8071 - val_loss: 0.4617 - val_acc: 0.8168
verbose=2
will just mention the number of epoch like this:
Train on 186219 samples, validate on 20691 samples
Epoch 1/1
- 88s - loss: 0.5746 - acc: 0.7753 - val_loss: 0.4816 - val_acc: 0.8075
Train on 186219 samples, validate on 20691 samples
Epoch 1/1
- 88s - loss: 0.4880 - acc: 0.8076 - val_loss: 0.5199 - val_acc: 0.8046
Reference: