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Overfit Kaggle Models Discouraged Data Science Competitors
In the “The Nature Conservancy Fisheries Monitoring” competition on the data science competition website Kaggle, a number of competitors overfit their image classifier models to a poorly representative validation data set.
- Date it happened
- 2017-05-01
- Organisation involved
- Individual Kaggle Competitors
- Product, system or model
- classification models
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