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Trevor Grant reassigned FLINK-2259: ----------------------------------- Assignee: Trevor Grant > Support training Estimators using a (train, validation, test) split of the > available data > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-2259 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2259 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Machine Learning Library > Reporter: Theodore Vasiloudis > Assignee: Trevor Grant > Priority: Minor > Labels: ML > > When there is an abundance of data available, a good way to train models is > to split the available data into 3 parts: Train, Validation and Test. > We use the Train data to train the model, the Validation part is used to > estimate the test error and select hyperparameters, and the Test is used to > evaluate the performance of the model, and assess its generalization [1] > This is a common approach when training Artificial Neural Networks, and a > good strategy to choose in data-rich environments. Therefore we should have > some support of this data-analysis process in our Estimators. > [1] Friedman, Jerome, Trevor Hastie, and Robert Tibshirani. The elements of > statistical learning. Vol. 1. Springer, Berlin: Springer series in > statistics, 2001. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)