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hyperparameter tuning on test set paper

On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set

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David Picard jvgemert.bsky.social

“In addition to the research findings, this is the type of research I really enjoyed doing 😊 "On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set" arxiv.org/abs/2610.05902”

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jvgemert.bsky.social: In addition to the research findings, this is the type of research I really enjoyed doing 😊 "On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set" arxiv.org/abs/2610.05902
David Picard: In addition to the research findings, this is the type of research I really enjoyed doing 😊 "On Hyperparameter Tuning on the Test Set" arxiv.org/abs/2610.05902
David Picard: Joining the heresy, I see... But in all seriousness, I think the observation you make that test-tuning is just a uniform boost (fig 3) is an important lesson of deep learning (interpolation thresho…
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