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graduate student descent

noun

Etymology

Modeled on gradient descent. Attributed to David A. McAllester.

Definitions

  1. The process of choosing hyperparameters manually and in an ad-hoc manner, typical of work…

    The process of choosing hyperparameters manually and in an ad-hoc manner, typical of work assigned to a graduate student.

    • Phrase of the day, "Graduate Student Descent." Optimization through graduate student tweaking.
    • […] people without real-world experience often ignore systematic approaches to hyperparameter tuning in favor of manual, gut-feeling approach. The most popular method is arguably 'Graduate Student Descent (GSD) […]
    • Instead of hypothesis-forming based on theory, extensive research on previous studies and/or reflection against the existing domain knowledge, grad student descent […] is applied.

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