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Adding Training Data Does Not Help Much When Training Error Is High

When high avoidable bias is the problem, adding more training data is not a helpful technique because it helps variance problems but usually has no significant effect on bias. One should first improve training-set performance before expecting dev/test performance to improve.

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Updated 2026-05-26

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