Case Study

Choose the right size for a review set in an image recognition project.

Case context: You are training a system to identify types of flowers in smartphone photos. People can usually tell the classes apart without difficulty, so your team set up a small review set for manual inspection. After checking a handful of mistakes, the sample is too small to reveal any clear recurring failure patterns.

Question: What should your team conclude about the size of this review set, and what should they do next so it serves its purpose?

Sample answer: The team should conclude that the review set is too small and expand it. Its job is to provide a representative sample of the model's main error categories, so if only a few mistakes are available and no patterns appear, the set is not large enough for useful manual analysis.

Key points:

  • Diagnose the review set as too small to expose recurring error categories.
  • Increase the size of the review set.
  • Link the decision to finding the model's major error categories in a task people handle well.

Rubric: The response must state that the current review set is insufficient and should be enlarged. It must explain that the purpose of enlarging it is to better surface the model's main error categories in a human-easy classification task.

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