Questions tagged [train]
training (or estimation) of statistical models or algorithms.
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What's this class of algorithms called: (entire training dataset, new input) -> output?
Supervised machine learning algorithms normally work by preprocessing a training dataset and outputting a compact model (e.g. a bunch of regression coefficients) that can quickly give an approximate ...
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Save Machine Learning Model progress for later [closed]
another dumb question, but how do you save the progress an ML model has made and start from that point later? Its kind of a vague question, but this is an example of what I am talking about:
Say, ...
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ANN for Boundary Value Problem
I have a question regarding solving Boundary Value Problems (BVP) using ANNs.
My understanding is that this is currently a challenging task. Most scientific literature on the subject is interested in ...
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With limited training time - should I shrink the training set and run more epochs?
I wonder what is considered a better practice in deep learning. I have a dataset of 100K images that I want to use for training a regional-CNN for a whole week.
Is it possible that my network will be ...
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Practical realities of updating a trained model with new data
In my day to day work, I train models on data using R packages that have no extension for Bayesian priors. I will generally have a large dataset to start off with, and add new data as needed.
Any ...
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How to train CNN for noise removal from images using Matlab [closed]
I am currently working on a project of mine where I want to use Convolutional neural networks for noise removal from images. I am talking about removing Poisson type of noise. The software that I am ...
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deep learning : how to retrain an already trained model on different data?
I have a model (a convolutional neural network) that has already been trained on set of training data for human pose estimation. It works very well for simple cases, but I want to make it more robust ...
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The performance metric used in prediction is different from the objective function to train the model
For linear regression and many machine learning models, we use the same performance metric during the training and testing stage. For example, during the training stage, our machine learning algorithm ...
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What is the training algorithm for sklearn's Bayesian Ridge Regression?
I read the sklearn's code to train Bayesian Ridge Regression, but can not understand the algorithm. I think it is EM, but don't know where the update equations for lambda_ and alpha_ come from. Any ...
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Does maximizing model generativeness maximize its discriminative-ness?
If I train a model M in a way that maximizes the penalized likelihood of M given some data, is this equivalent to maximizing its ...
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RFECV + GRIDSEARCHCV on entire dataset (?)
I have 30,000 samples with 150 features for a binary classification problem, now I plan to follow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23815938/recursive-feature-elimination-and-grid-search-using-...
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If I remove 20% of the train examples, my CV and train score improves, how can I find the reason why?
I have a small dataset - several thousands examples with a lot of features, a lot of them have a lot of zeros. If I remove 20% of examples from the end of the dataset - my CV and train(on changed ...
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Why after multiple epoc the performance decrease on the train data?
I have a network and I notice that after multiple epoc the performance on the train data start decreasing. Why?
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How to meaningfully compute the accuracy of a multi-step forecast produced by a model
I am trying to measure the accuracy of my model in producing a multi-step forecast and I have read a lot of different opinions on the matter and am now rather confused.
The goal of my model is to ...
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in-sample data vs out-of-sample data
I know that a train-validation-test splits the data into:
a training dataset - obviously my "in-sample" data
a validation dataset
a test data set - obviously my "out-of-sample" data
My question is: ...
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Can overfitting be a good thing in some cases?
I know the goal of machine learning is to create generalizable models and therefore overfitting is undesirable.
However, I wonder if it could be desirable in some cases. For example, let's say I ...
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How to test a PCA+classifier model? [duplicate]
I have a 100x45 dataset and I'd like to perform feature selection and classification/regression.
I'm currently using various techniques to check which one has the best performances, but I have a ...
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Why is gradient descent and it's variants used instead of BFGS and L-BFGS for training neural nets? [duplicate]
My understanding is that BFGS and L-BFGS solve the same type of optimization problems as GD and it's variants.
Why is GD the go to algorithm for training neural networks?
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Data set splitting for statistical inference?
probably a very basic question -- I am modelling companies' decisions on which mode of payment they use in M&A deals with a help of logit model. I am so far interested only in what variables are ...
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Drawing ROC curves from RFE() training results in caret
I want to generate ROC curves using the training data and results from the rfe function in caret. I have managed to do this with the code below but there is some inconsistency between the ROC value ...
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feature selection and classification - train and test on the sample?
I have a dataset of 93 records and 45 radiomics variables from various CT scans. I wanted to check if age and sex could be classified by the variables so I made a new variable with both sex and age.
I ...
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How to generate train / test data for a classifier with only simulated feature data?
We are working on a binary classification problem for which real world data is extremely rare. We are using an HMM model for performing classification, and the feature data is derived from simulating ...
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What a convex Precision-Recall curve means for training dataset?
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I have trained a GBDT model(gradient-boosted decision tree, a tree ensemble model) with a training dataset, and when I calculate PR curve on the same training set, it looks convex:
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GAN training: Both G and D has very low loss
I am training a GAN. At the beginning the generator has a very high loss, which converges over time. After some time, the image quality seems pretty good, but both the generator and discriminator have ...
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How to train a NN with multiple outputs when not all of them are known in a test set?
I am working on a boundary value problem. So far I am using the implementation from the following paper Aarts, L.P. & van der Veer, P. Neural Processing Letters (2001) 14: 261. https://doi.org/10....
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Should the distribution of my samples in my model be equal to to the original data set?
In my original data set I see a distribution of 70% belongs to label A and 30% belongs to label B. For my train, validation and test set I maintained the same ratio. However, I wonder whether this is ...
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How to implement the Walk-Forward optimization for RNN
Say you have 24 time steps in total, and you are trying to fit an RNN model. You designate the most recent 5 terms as test period, and the others as train period.
In the training process, you start ...
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Standardization on training only or also including testing data?
My question is very much related to this one:
How to apply standardization/normalization to train- and testset if prediction is the goal?
However, my testing data is not a single observation that I ...
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How to Split Time Series Data to train/test for RNN [duplicate]
Let's say I have a set of time series data with 32 time steps.
My goal is to predict what the data value would be for the next time step, given data for 30 previous time steps. Would it be okay to ...
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I am trying to build a progressive auto encoder neural network and I am not sure how to discard old weights?
The goal of the network is simple, encode and decode images at a smaller scale and slowly increasing the network complexity, the input image size and its output quality.
My current weights for my ...
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Accuracy varying considerably depending on selection of test/train set
I have a large database that is being used for a classification problem. The original total database is being partitioned 80% into sample 1 (where 80% is for training and 20% for validation) and 20% ...
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different between effect of episodes and time in DQN and where is the updating the experience replay
In DQN paper of DeepMind company, there are two loops one for episodes and one for running time in each step (one for training and one for different time-step of running). Am I right?
Since, nothing ...
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Bootstrapping accuracy, f1-score?
I have typical train/test setting, with an ordinary dataset. As I am comparing performance of two approaches to a problem (namely churn prediction with AdaBoost and ...
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In which scenarios are the in-sample error and training error NOT the same?
In Elements of Statistical Learning, Chapter 7 (pages 228-229), the authors define the optimism of the training error rate as:
$$
op\equiv Err_{in}-\overline{err}
$$
With the training error $\...
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When to stop training of neural network when validation loss is still decreasing but gap with training loss is increasing?
During training of CNNs, I often come across this case for training and validation loss :
X axis is epochs, Y axis is cross entropy loss.
I would like to keep the "best model", meaning the one which ...
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Can a ConvNet see patterns that a human cannot?
I am training a ConvNet to detect different types of stripes in my images. As I am working on astronomical images, my pixel values are flux densities and therefore represent ground truth data.
When I ...
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Interpretation of logistic regression with normalized features
With logistic regression, a one unit change in $X_1$ is associated with a $\beta_1$ change in the log odds of 'success' (alternatively, an $\exp(\beta_1)$-fold change in the odds), all else being ...
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Is there a way to incorporate new data into an already trained neural network without retraining on all my data in Keras?
I have already trained a neural network on my data. In the future, I will receive some more data. How can I incorporate this data into my model without rebuilding it from scratch?
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When is there a difference between a normal likelihood loss and a least squares loss?
My understanding is that if the errors follow a normal distribution, then using a maximum likelihood loss or a least squares loss to train a model amounts to the same thing.
However, I am looking at ...
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train / validation / test split
I understand that you typically use three different data sets (train/validation/test) to acquire an unbiased estimate of the performance measurement, because the models are tuned to fit for the train ...
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When predicting (not training) using neural networks, why would we have to specify a number of epochs?
I'm looking at code from a Google course on how to use Tensorflow.
When explaining how to specify the function for generating predictions from an already trained model, the function they define takes ...
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Reducing batch size after X epochs?
Batch size and the number of iterations are considered as a tradeoff.
It has been observed in practice that when using a larger batch there is a significant degradation in the quality of the model, ...
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Is it OK to use the parameters for the lowest cost? [duplicate]
In a Neural Network training, the cost of the model changes throughout the training process when using gradient descent (or something analogous), this is the point of the algorithm. However the cost ...
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Is it recommended to train a SVM model with the same dataset used for pre-train an autoencoder?
I have a very limited dataset and have used 80% of it to pre-train an autoencoder.
Now, I attached the enconder part to a SVM. In order to train the SVM, is ok to train it using the exactly same (80%)...
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Dataset requirement for Deep Learning
I am doing research on deep neural networks for prediction. I wanted to know what minimum size of dataset is required for training a deep network. Is there any limitation imposed on how much ...
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Difference between train/test and train/validate/test split?
I know this question has been asked here before, but after reading the answers I still dont get the difference.
Consider for instance a lasso penalized linnear regression model.This model has a ...
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How should Training Data for Fully ConvNets look like?
I've been working with CNNs recently. For a new task, I need to predict objects in an image pixelwise. Fully ConvNets seem to be the way to go. I read the original paper (Long et al., 2014) and a few ...
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Why would somebody use a hash function for creating a test/train split instead of random seed?
I'm going through some ML training material from Google (I can't post a link because I'm getting the material through my company).
In the part about how to extract data and split it into train and ...
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Imputing the mean value from the 'train set' into the 'test set'
I have looked at a couple questions and answers similar to this, the recommendation seems to be the imputation of mean values from the 'training set' into my 'test set'.
However, what I am trying to ...
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Caret and glmnet giving different lambda and coefficient values
I need to match lambda and coefficient values from cv.glmnet and caret train functions.
It is evident from below that both ...
